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pipe-viewer

A lightweight application (fork of straw-viewer) for searching and playing videos from YouTube.

This fork parses the YouTube website directly and relies on the invidious instances only as a fallback method.

pipe-viewer

  • command-line interface to YouTube.

pipe-viewer

gtk-pipe-viewer

  • GTK+ interface to YouTube.

gtk-pipe-viewer

AVAILABILITY

REVIEWS

VIDEO REVIEWS

TRY

For trying the latest commit of pipe-viewer, without installing it, execute the following commands:

    cd /tmp
    wget https://github.com/trizen/pipe-viewer/archive/main.zip -O pipe-viewer-main.zip
    unzip -n pipe-viewer-main.zip
    cd pipe-viewer-main
    ./bin/pipe-viewer

INSTALLATION

To install pipe-viewer, run:

    perl Build.PL
    sudo ./Build installdeps
    sudo ./Build install

To install gtk-pipe-viewer along with pipe-viewer, run:

    perl Build.PL --gtk
    sudo ./Build installdeps
    sudo ./Build install

DEPENDENCIES

For pipe-viewer:

For gtk-pipe-viewer:

Build dependencies:

Optional dependencies:

PACKAGING

To package this application, run the following commands:

    perl Build.PL --destdir "/my/package/path" --installdirs vendor [--gtk]
    ./Build test
    ./Build install --install_path script=/usr/bin

INVIDIOUS INSTANCES

To use invidious instances, pass the --invidious option:

    pipe-viewer --invidious

or set in the configuration file (~/.config/pipe-viewer/pipe-viewer.conf):

    prefer_invidious => 1,

To use a specific invidious instance, like invidious.fdn.fr, pass the --api=HOST option:

    pipe-viewer --invidious --api=invidious.fdn.fr

To make the change permanent, set in the configuration file:

    api_host => "invidious.fdn.fr",

When api_host is set to "auto", pipe-viewer picks a random invidious instance from api.invidious.io.

SUPPORT AND DOCUMENTATION

After installing, you can find documentation with the following commands:

man pipe-viewer
perldoc WWW::PipeViewer

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2012-2024 Trizen

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either: the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; or the Artistic License.

See https://dev.perl.org/licenses/ for more information.