yewtube is a command-line tool to search, browse, and play YouTube videos directly from your terminal, for Linux, macOS, and Microsoft Windows. It uses no API keys, and it can play audio only or audio/video using a third-party media player like VLC, mpv or mplayer, with lots of features on top.
yewtube is a fork of mps-youtube, which had its last release in back in 2018. This January, yewtube was merged back in mps-youtube, and its development continues at https://github.com/mps-youtube/yewtube. The fork is a year old, and it contains numerous bug fixes as well as some minor new features such as the ability to run yewtube over tor using torsocks, and the ability to set the mplayer cache.
The application's main purpose is to serve as a terminal YouTube music player, offering options to:
- search and play audio
- create and save local playlists
- search and open YouTube playlists
- local play history
- set the default media formats
With extra options such as:
- play video externally using mpv, mplayer, or vlc
- audio/video download
- view video information and comments
- optional notifications on song change
- optional MPRIS v2 support
- last.fm scrobbling support
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