I have wanted exactly this for over a year. Thank you for making it.
Show HN: Tube – Minimalist YouTube
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Re: Show HN: Tube – Minimalist YouTube
#82For 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…
I actually have a script running on a cron job on my personal server that does approximately this. It downloads into a Syncthing folder that automatically syncs to whatever devices I might want to watch videos on. The difference is I just have a set of playlists for it to download, so I'm relying on the YouTube creators to organize their videos into appropriate playlists, which means it's not exactly "fine-grained". It's basically an 80% solution, and for the remaining 20%, I just invoke youtube-dl manually.
Re: Show HN: Tube – Minimalist YouTube
#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
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://…
Excellent, thanks!
Re: Show HN: Tube – Minimalist YouTube
#84For 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.
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Re: Show HN: Tube – Minimalist YouTube
#85For 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.
I don't think there's any way to know what qualities are currently being prepared. Your best bet might be to just figure out what time that creator typically uploads, and make sure your script doesn't run during that time and for several hours afterward, to give YouTube the time it needs to prepare the high-quality ones.
Re: Show HN: Tube – Minimalist YouTube
#86Earlier 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.
> but there is always YouTube Red
For the majority of the World there is not
Re: Show HN: Tube – Minimalist YouTube
#87For 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…
For anybody interested I've written a tutorial for youtube-dl: https://spapas.github.io/2018/03/06/easy-youtube-mp3-downloa...
Re: Show HN: Tube – Minimalist YouTube
#88For 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…
If you like youtube-dl you should check out mps-youtube (https://github.com/mps-youtube/mps-youtube) which has the ability to use youtuble-dl as the backend I'm pretty sure (i prefer to use the native one personally)
It's also gpl vs youtube-dl's public domain.
I'm sure eventually I'll figure out a way to just do it in emacs. (I'm mostly joking... kinda... maybe.)
Re: Show HN: Tube – Minimalist YouTube
#89For 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…
For anybody interested I've written a tutorial for youtube-dl: https://spapas.github.io/2018/03/06/easy-youtube-mp3-downloa...
I have a project that kinda acts as music assistant:
"Search and play any song from terminal"
The project is somewhat inactive right now due to personal priorities. http://github.com/NISH1001/playx
Re: Show HN: Tube – Minimalist YouTube
#90For 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…
If you like youtube-dl you should check out mps-youtube ( https://github.com/mps-youtube/mps-youtube ) which has the ability to use youtuble-dl as the backend I'm pretty sure (i prefer to use the native one personally) It's also gpl vs youtube-dl's public domain. I'm sure eventually I'll figure out a way to just do it in emacs. (I'm mostly joking... kinda... maybe.)
> mps-youtube
Funny that state[0] on PyPi[1] is [downloads|no longer available]
