cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/530920

Magic-tape is an image supporting fuzzy finder command line interface YouTube client.

https://gitlab.com/christosangel/magic-tape

Image support is achieved either with kitty terminal, ueberzug or chafa.

With magic-tape, through the main menu, the user can:

  • Browse videos from subscriptions.

  • Browse through trending video feed.

  • make a video search, using keywords or phrases.

  • Watch a previously watched video (watch history).

  • Browse videos from a subcsribed channel.

  • Watch a liked video.

  • Repeat the previous selection.

  • Repeat a previous search (search history).

  • Watch/download video/audio content, in various formats.

Through the miscellaneous menu the user can

  • Set up Preferences (configuration).

  • Like / Unlike a video.

  • Synchronize the above actions with their YouTube account.

  • Import subscriptions from YouTube.

  • Subscribe to/ Unsubscribe from a channel.

  • Clear their watch/search history, liked videos, thumbnail cache.

  • christos@lemmy.worldOP
    2·
    1 year ago

    Exactly that. Yt-dlp works with browser cookies, You need one of the browsers, and to log in to your yt account.

    • Archy@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year ago

      Ah, yeah that’s what I figured.

      Unfortunately, (or fortunately for me) I have not used YouTube in a traditional way in a very long time. I use FreeTube, Piped, Invidious, NewPipe, VueTube depending on the platform I currently am. And that is why I don’t have any cookies for it. I don’t really care for liking or commenting the videos as just watching them. All the above mentioned programs support own “offline” subscription lists, and most have interest-based profiles which you cannot achieve with a traditional YouTube account.

      But yeah, sadly this not for me in its current form, I will join whoever added a comment here earlier about waiting for support of json - based subscription lists - that is, of course, if you decide to go that route, or at least as bare minimum if you could remove the cookie requirement and have “anonymous search and view” functionality. I believe many of us here on Lemmy that are concerned about privacy will greatly appreciate that. YouTube itself, mpv, and yt-dlp don’t really need cookies to watch a video.

      Thanks for troubleshooting this with me.

      • christos@lemmy.worldOP
        2·
        1 year ago

        I was considering being full “offline”, it is perfectly doable, working with yt xml requests.

        The downside is that this process (so far for me) takes longer, gives less info, and mostly, although there is no image support there, is done better by terminal rss feeders like newsboat.

        You cannot do everything at the same time. I may revisit this approach in the feature and put up something else.