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Re: Show HN: Tube – Minimalist YouTube

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Post by stephengillie » Sat, Apr 14, 2018, 12:48 AM UTC

madamelic wrote: post #10

mariedm wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

First, I'm probably not the only one but I find ads really annoying. Also, I always find myself spending so much time on Youtube when I was just coming for one video, that can be problematic. I think Tube is simple but effective.

Unfortunately, it won't filter out pre-roll ads, but there is always YouTube Red, if you dislike ads and don't hate Google.

YouTube Red is nice, but so many videos bake-in ads. It would be nice to have a player only play selected portions of a video; for a video with an ad baked in from 0:11 to 0:41, the player would play from 0:00 to 0:11, then auto-skip from 0:11 to 0:41, and continue playing. These could be set from an earlier viewing, suggested by the site by other viewer behavior, or have common shows have a "time file"of clips to skip to. "Abridged" shows could use a "time file" and subtitle track for easier content creation.

Re: Show HN: Tube – Minimalist YouTube

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Post by ravenstine » Sat, Apr 14, 2018, 12:58 AM UTC

textmode wrote: post #53

I have a 2-line shell script using only sed and curl (or equivalent) that obviates any need for youtube-dl, python, third party websites, etc. Unlike youtube-dl it will not download videos where the uploader is some commercial media outlet that wants to prohibit downloading.

Can you post this somewhere? Maybe a Github Gist?

Re: Show HN: Tube – Minimalist YouTube

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Post by gnuvince » Sat, Apr 14, 2018, 1:07 AM UTC

I searched for "darkest dungeon" and first hits were for Ed Sheeran and One Direction. I know searching is a tricky problem, but this is ridiculously bad.

Re: Show HN: Tube – Minimalist YouTube

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Post by nerdymanchild » Sat, Apr 14, 2018, 1:08 AM UTC

madamelic wrote: post #38

nerdymanchild wrote: post #28

IANAL but I think this might be a violation of YouTube ToS

Ah, ok. Hopefully they don't nuke my account. No scraping or mean stuff, it's all above board and using Google's APIs.

Check the ToS of their APIs. I'm somewhat certain you aren't allowed to build alternative interfaces into their content.

Re: Show HN: Tube – Minimalist YouTube

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Post by austenallred » Sat, Apr 14, 2018, 1:32 AM UTC

gnuvince wrote: post #63

I searched for "darkest dungeon" and first hits were for Ed Sheeran and One Direction. I know searching is a tricky problem, but this is ridiculously bad.

I got the same results for a completely unrelated term. Probably something hard-coded it's falling back on?

Re: Show HN: Tube – Minimalist YouTube

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Post by mysterypie » Sat, Apr 14, 2018, 1:33 AM UTC

This does not work for me. No matter what I search for I get the same results, namely, Marvel Studios' Avengers, Ed Sheeran, One Direction, etc.

Re: Show HN: Tube – Minimalist YouTube

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Post by dsnuh » Sat, Apr 14, 2018, 1:36 AM UTC

mysterypie wrote: post #66

This does not work for me. No matter what I search for I get the same results, namely, Marvel Studios' Avengers, Ed Sheeran, One Direction, etc.

Same here.

Re: Show HN: Tube – Minimalist YouTube

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Post by vatueil » Sat, Apr 14, 2018, 1:37 AM UTC

iamdave wrote: post #60

chriswarbo wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

youtube-dl is really cool, and supports loads of sites as well as just youtube. VLC can also play youtube URLs directly, although buffering can be annoying. There's also a Python package called "whitey" which provides an ncurses interface for searching youtube, and sending videos to e.g. mplayer or youtube-dl. If you want to "subscribe" without needing an account, every youtube channel provides an RSS feed (look in t…

VLC can also play youtube URLs directly I legitimately did not know this, thanks for the knowledge share! Can it follow playlist s of videos? There's a few video game streamers whose commentary and remarks are so funny and well written I find myself listening to them more like a podcast than watching the video, so I'm often queuing up playlists and having the background noise while doing house chores and the like

VLC can't play YouTube playlists natively, but there's a VLC add-on that supports doing so: https://addons.videolan.org/content/show.php/+Youtube+playli...

Also, mpv can use youtube-dl if both are installed to play YouTube playlists, e.g.:

    mpv https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhyKYa0YJ_5DfJnFBZwz8xd37MA6I16oJ

Note that you need to pass it the link to the playlist itself and not a video in the playlist: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/wiki/FAQ#How_can_I_play_Yo...

Re: Show HN: Tube – Minimalist YouTube

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Post by dsnuh » Sat, Apr 14, 2018, 1:40 AM UTC

chriswarbo wrote: post #45

RodgerTheGreat wrote: post #25

For some time I've been tinkering with a script which manages my own fine-grained youtube subscription preferences, periodically scrapes various pages for metadata, and then as necessary extracts videos by using the youtube-dl utility. The end result is a directory on my machine which always has a few interesting videos to watch, ad-free, tracking-free, network connection free, using my favorite full-featured video p…

youtube-dl is really cool, and supports loads of sites as well as just youtube. VLC can also play youtube URLs directly, although buffering can be annoying. There's also a Python package called "whitey" which provides an ncurses interface for searching youtube, and sending videos to e.g. mplayer or youtube-dl. If you want to "subscribe" without needing an account, every youtube channel provides an RSS feed (look in t…

>youtube-dl is really cool, and supports loads of sites as well as just youtube.

Agreed, here's a list of sites it supports: https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/docs/supported...

Re: Show HN: Tube – Minimalist YouTube

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Post by ehPReth » Sat, Apr 14, 2018, 1:55 AM UTC

RodgerTheGreat wrote: post #25

For some time I've been tinkering with a script which manages my own fine-grained youtube subscription preferences, periodically scrapes various pages for metadata, and then as necessary extracts videos by using the youtube-dl utility. The end result is a directory on my machine which always has a few interesting videos to watch, ad-free, tracking-free, network connection free, using my favorite full-featured video p…

Do you have a way to ensure you get the highest quality?

I do similar with cron but often get videos as they're still processing (and thus only at lower qualities). One issue is the channels I 'subscribe' to don't always output at the same resolution and frame rate.. so I can't do a simple 'is video 4k60' test.