yt-x lets you browse YouTube from your terminal. Plus other sites yt-dlp supports.
This is free and open source software.
Features include:
- Interactive Menu: Text-based UI using fzf or rofi for seamless navigation.
- YouTube-Specific Menus: Access your feed, trending videos, playlists, watch later, subscriptions feed, liked videos, clips.
- Playback Support: Play videos and audio via mpv or vlc.
- Search Functionality: Search for videos, channels and playlists directly.
- Channel Exploration: Explore channels, including their videos, streams, podcasts, shorts, and playlists.
- Saved Channels: Bookmark your favorite channels for quick access, with support for importing existing subscriptions.
- Saved Videos: Save videos to watch later.
- Mixes: Generate and explore YouTube song mixes.
- Yt-x Shell: Run custom yt-dlp and mpv commands for downloading and viewing videos and playlists
- Custom Playlists: Save playlists for easier access.
- Download Management: Download videos, audio, and playlists using yt-dlp.
- History & Recents: Track your recent videos and search history.
- Configuration Management: Customize and manage configurations for yt-x, mpv and yt-dlp with ease.
- Extensions: Extend yt-x with your own custom ui and preview logic allowing more precise coverage of other sites that yt-dlp supports🥳
- Custom Commands: Basically a simple way to achieve the same thing with extensions. A custom command is just a yt-dlp command that loads a playlist or playlist like json.
- Miscellaneous Features:
- Shell completions for bash, zsh, and fish.
- Desktop entry generation for easy access.
Website: github.com/Benexl/yt-x
Support:
Developer: Benedict Xavier
License: MIT License
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