[SOLVED] youtube software suggestion

FlinchX · 01-17-2018, 09:43 AM

I need to listen to all videos of a certain youtube user. I say listen because I'm only interested in the audio. I want software that can accept the link to the user profile and play all of its files, newest first. I want it to save state and everytime I start it - play last video if it was interrupted in the middle, so it keeps going back and back. I need functionality similar to youtube-dl --download-archive playlist, but I don't need to store anything locally, just want to listen to the audio. CLI programs are fine too, just need to be free software.

rokytnji · 01-17-2018, 09:58 AM

Not sure if smtube fits your requirements or not.

FlinchX · 01-17-2018, 10:21 AM

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Originally Posted by rokytnji

Not sure if smtube fits your requirements or not.

Doesn't even work with single videos well, segfaults often.

orbea · 01-17-2018, 10:33 AM

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Originally Posted by FlinchX

I need to listen to all videos of a certain youtube user. I say listen because I'm only interested in the audio. I want software that can accept the link to the user profile and play all of its files, newest first. I want it to save state and everytime I start it - play last video if it was interrupted in the middle, so it keeps going back and back. I need functionality similar to youtube-dl --download-archive playlist, but I don't need to store anything locally, just want to listen to the audio. CLI programs are fine too, just need to be free software.

Look into youtube-dl and mps-youtube/pafy.

FlinchX · 01-17-2018, 10:54 AM

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Originally Posted by orbea

Look into youtube-dl and mps-youtube/pafy.

Thank you but I just hope that someone will tell me "this software does exactly what you need". Because I asked in forum after reading the whole youtube-dl manpage twice and not finding what I need. Either youtube-dl indeed can do it and I've managed to overlook it twice, or it can't, but some other software can, and I hope to learn about it here.

ondoho · 01-18-2018, 02:23 AM

this software does exactly what you need:
https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/

Shadow_7 · 01-18-2018, 03:37 AM

youtube-dl or minitube? Most will still require a bit of effort to target a users archive.

FlinchX · 01-18-2018, 07:27 AM

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Originally Posted by ondoho

this software does exactly what you need:
https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/

Closest I came to is:

Code:

youtube-dl -v --download-archive playlist -o - URL_OF_USER_VIDEOS | vlc -

but:

1. i'm not sure it works at all with whole playlists this way. with a single file, like in the example from the manpage, it works fine
2. it keeps downloading forward a lot, player can still be playing first file, while youtube-dl might be downloading many files ahead. i would like it to pause and wait till player finishes to play current file, then start to download next. but i suppose this would require two-way communication between youtube-dl and the player, which is not the case?
3. when i interrupt youtube-dl with Ctrl-C, for some reason it won't write the playlist file. when i download files without -o -, but with archive persistence, the playlist file is written fine

i'm close to giving up and just download everything locally first

teckk · 01-18-2018, 12:55 PM

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I need to listen to all videos of a certain youtube user.

Examples:

Example Username search:
https://www.youtube.com/results?q=PBS+NewsHour

Get first 10 video titles and url's for user

Code:

youtube-dl -eg "ytsearch10:PBS NewsHour"

Look at the man page for other info

Make a list of video id's

Code:

list=$(youtube-dl --get-id "ytsearch10:PBS NewsHour")

Play each one out of the list

Code:

for i in $list; do 
    youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v="$i" -o - | mplayer -
done

If you don't want to use that much bandwidth then get a smaller format:
See whats available

Code:

youtube-dl -F $url ...

Smaller mp4

Code:

youtube-dl -f 140 ....

Or audio only

Code:

youtube-dl -f 139 ....

If you want a log then make one either with tee or redirect the output of your player.

Code:

mplayer $url 2>&1 | grep Playing | tee -a mylog.txt

Make a script that does what you wish. Ask for help after you've tried/made your script. Lots of people here can help you with that.

jefro · 01-18-2018, 02:54 PM

Some more ideas. https://unix.stackexchange.com/quest...youtube-player

Habitual · 01-18-2018, 06:54 PM

VLC will accept URLs and if they are video, use the Video menu > Video Track > Disable.
Play.

Save playlist.

FlinchX · 01-19-2018, 12:55 AM

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Originally Posted by Habitual

VLC will accept URLs and if they are video, use the Video menu > Video Track > Disable.
Play.

Save playlist.

vlc doesn't seem smart enough to understand an https://www.youtube.com/user/USERID/videos link

FlinchX · 01-19-2018, 12:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by teckk

Make a list of video id's

Code:

list=$(youtube-dl --get-id "ytsearch10:PBS NewsHour")

Play each one out of the list

Code:

for i in $list; do 
    youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v="$i" -o - | mplayer -
done

...

Make a script that does what you wish. Ask for help after you've tried/made your script. Lots of people here can help you with that.

This is probably my best option, I'll go this way and start tuning it for my needs.
Thank you.

Laurence_Burke · 01-19-2018, 05:49 AM

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Originally Posted by FlinchX

This is probably my best option, I'll go this way and start tuning it for my needs.
Thank you.

I agree with your suggestion friend.

teckk · 01-19-2018, 11:25 AM

You can make a little script to search UT for url's with bash and friends,
save results to .txt,

Code:

#! /usr/bin/env bash

#User agent
agent="Mozilla/5.0"

#url segments for search by date posted
url="https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query="
by_date="&search_sort=video_date_uploaded"

#Get user search word input
read -p "Enter ut search word/s | cars or big+red+cars: " s_word

#Get page, save as $var
ut_page=$(curl -A "$agent" "$url""$s_word""$by_date")

#Read the page, grep for string, make url, redirect to .txt
while read line; do
    if [ "$line" != "" ]; then
        echo "http://www.youtube.com"$line""
    fi
done < <(echo "$ut_page" | 
        grep -oP 'class="yt-lockup-title "><a href="\K[^"]+'
        ) | grep "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=" > UTSearch.txt

Then parse UTSearch.txt however you wish.