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A lightweight application (fork ofyoutube-viewer) for searching and playing videos from YouTube, using theAPI ofinvidio.us.

• command-line interface to YouTube.

• GTK+ interface to YouTube.

The project is in its early stages of development and some features are not implemented yet.

• Arch Linux (AUR):https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/straw-viewer-git/

• openSUSE:https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:Aptrug/straw-viewer

• Slackware:https://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.2/multimedia/straw-viewer/

• [EN] Pipe-Viewer and Straw-Viewer -- Search Youtube via Terminal - Linux CLI
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4tfHUmklWo

For trying the latest commit ofstraw-viewer, without installing it, execute the following commands:

    cd /tmp    wget https://github.com/trizen/straw-viewer/archive/master.zip -O straw-viewer-master.zip    unzip -n straw-viewer-master.zip    cd straw-viewer-master/bin    ./straw-viewer

To installstraw-viewer, run:

    perl Build.PL    sudo ./Build installdeps    sudo ./Build install

To installgtk-straw-viewer along withstraw-viewer, run:

    perl Build.PL --gtk    sudo ./Build installdeps    sudo ./Build install

• libwww-perl
• LWP::Protocol::https
• Data::Dump
• JSON

• Gtk3
• File::ShareDir
• + the dependencies required by straw-viewer.

• Module::Build

• Local cache support:LWP::UserAgent::Cached
• Better STDIN support (+ history):Term::ReadLine::Gnu
• Faster JSON deserialization:JSON::XS
• Fixed-width formatting (--fixed-width, -W):Unicode::LineBreak orText::CharWidth

To package this application, run the following commands:

    perl Build.PL --destdir "/my/package/path" --installdirs vendor [--gtk]    ./Build test    ./Build install --install_path script=/usr/bin

Sometimes, the default instance,invidious.snopyta.org, may fail to work properly. When this happens, we can change the API host to some other instance of invidious, such asinvidious.tube:

    straw-viewer --api=invidious.tube

To make the change permanent, set in the configuration file:

api_host=>"invidious.tube",

Alternatively, the following will automatically pick a random invidious instance everytime the program is started:

api_host=>"auto",

The available instances are listed at:https://api.invidious.io/

pipe-viewer is an experimental fork ofstraw-viewer with the goal of parsing the YouTube website directly, and thus it may be a faster and more reliable alternative.

After installing, you can find documentation with the following commands:

man straw-viewerperldoc WWW::StrawViewer

Copyright (C) 2012-2021 Trizen

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify itunder the terms of either: the GNU General Public License as publishedby the Free Software Foundation; or the Artistic License.

Seehttp://dev.perl.org/licenses/ for more information.