ytdl-streamer
Introduction
A simple bash script that can stream your youtube video right to your player right from terminal
Useage
Clone or download this repo. cd to your repo directory. Install required dependencies via pip.
Just execute sudo chmod +x ./playmusic.sh and run. It will ask you to input your search term, and will stream it directly to mplayer
Here is the whole process summarized:
machine@localhost$ git clone "https://github.com/codeasashu/ytdl-streamer.git"
machine@localhost$ cd ytdl-streamer
machine@localhost$ pip install -r requirements.txt
machine@localhost$ sudo chmod +x ./playmusic.sh
machine@localhost$ ./playmusic.sh "in the end linkin park"
This will automatically pick best result from youtube api for the search term and will start playing the mp3 for you.
Sidenote
This program requires ffmpeg, youtube-dl and mplayer. Please install one before using this script.
For Ubuntu 12.04 or 14.04 users, use this bash script