MPS-YouTube is an open source Terminal based YouTube player and downloader.
This project is based on mps, a terminal based program to search, stream and download music.
This implementation uses YouTube as a source of content and can play and download video as well as audio. The pafy library handles interfacing with YouTube.
Key Features
- Search and play audio/video from YouTube.
- Search tracks of albums by album title.
- Search and import YouTube playlists.
- Create and save local playlists.
- Download audio/video.
- View video comments.
- Works with Python 2.7+ and 3.x.
- Multi-platform support.
- Requires mplayer or mpv.
Website: Discontinued
Support:
Developer: nagev
License: GNU GPL v3
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