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MeowTube is a CLI (Command Line Interface) to interact with youtube videos or audios and easy to play it via VLC. No need any account to use it.

First, make sure VLC already installed on your machine.

1. VLC Media Player Installed

2. Register VLC (location where VLC installed) to yourPATH variable

3. for windows user, better to usecmder, ANSI color supported by default

4. Check everything is good, typevlc on your terminal / cmd.

   vlc

• Linux, no need extra step
• Mac OS / OSX, SeeOfficial Doc and then export that location to your.zshrc or.bashrc

  echo 'export PATH="$PATH:/Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS"' >> ~/.zshrc && source ~/.zshrc

• Windows, seeOfficial Doc and then copy that directory location to your PATH on your environment variable (see reference).

1. Download MeowTube viarelease page
2. Choose which target OS do you use
3. Extract the downloaded file
4. Move the file to any folder what you want (OPTIONAL)
5. Register MeowTube to yourPATH variable (choose where meowtube is located)
6. Create an alias for MeowTube (OPTIONAL)
7. You may need to createmeowtube config, due to some instances uses anti bot protection

• unix based(linux & macos). export to.zshrc or.bashrc

  echo 'export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/MEOWTUBE_LOCATION_FOLDER"' >> ~/.zshrc && source ~/.zshrc

• Windows, copy the directory location to your PATH on your environment variable (see reference)

Check everything is good. Type on your terminal

meowtube

or

meowtube --help

NOTE: Every argument has--help flag to see their specific usage

This config used for excluding or includinginvidious instances. You can add this config on your$HOME PATH and named it with.meowtube.yaml. For excluding, you can set it as false. Example:

invidious.fdn.fr: falseinvidious.kavin.rocks: falseinvidious.snopyta.org: falseyewtu.be: trueytprivate.com: false

Reference:Invidious Instances

• @ikhsanalatsary - Idea & Initial work

• Inspired byohmyzsh/spotify
• UsingInvidious APIs

I also published an app that usesInvidious APIs. You can download it on Play Store.