ytools is a set of simple tools to interact with YouTube via the terminal.
$ ytools-search Black Mambo
1: Glass Animals - Black Mambo (Lyric Video)
2: Glass Animals - Black Mambo
3: Madrugada-Black Mambo
...
$ ytools-info 2
Glass Animals - Black Mambo
14.643.046 Views 81.526 Likes Published on 17 Feb 2015
Our new record “How To Be a Human Being” featuring “Youth” and
...
$ mpv $(ytools-pick 2)
Playing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7bqZIpC3Pg
...
$ # Without an argument, recommendations for the last picked result are
$ # listed; this also works with ytools-info and ytools-pick:
$ ytools-recommend
1: Glass Animals - Cane Shuga
2: Black Coast - TRNDSTTR (Lucian Remix)
3: Glass Animals - Season 2 Episode 3 (Official Video)
...For more information take a look at man ytools.
The easiest way to try ytools is to use the prebuilt binaries, that
are available at the releases
page.
If you want to properly install ytools on your system, I recommend
building them yourself:
git clone git@github.com:codesoap/ytools.git
cd ytools
# Execute as root to install:
make install
# To uninstall use (again as root):
# make uninstall
# If you don't want to run make as root and don't care for the man
# page, you could alternatively run the following. This will install the
# binaries to ~/go/bin/:
# go install ./...You can find some convenient scripts in porcelain/. They are not
installed by make install. Place the ones you like in $HOME/bin/
(make sure this directory is in your $PATH).