yt.sh

Watch YouTube w/o browser - with mpv, yt-dlp and newsboat (for subsciptions).

Installation

# Install mpv, newsboat and yt-dlp with your package manager
$ sudo pacman -S mpv newsboat yt-dlp

# Clone repo
$ git clone https://github.com/qzdn/yt.sh.git
$ cd yt.sh/ 
$ chmod +x channel2nb.sh csv2nb.sh search2mpv.sh

Scripts

channel2nb.sh

Add channel to newsboat manually by username (https://www.youtube.com/@username):

$ ./channel2nb.sh username

Check it in .config/newsboat/urls.

csv2nb.sh

Imports your subscriptions to newsboat from csv file.

1. Go to Google Takeout and export your YouTube subscriptions to csv file.
2. Download it to the folder with scripts.
3. Run ./csv2nb.sh filename.csv.

Check .config/newsboat/urls for imported entries.

search2mpv.sh

Watch videos by search requests:

$ ./search2mpv.sh rick roll

You can set up quantity of search results or video quality in the script itself.

newsboat config

1. Add this macros to your newsboat config (.config/newsboat/config):

macro y ; set browser "mpv --volume=80 --no-cache --vo=gpu --hwdec=auto --ytdl-format='bestvideo[vcodec^=avc1][height<=720][fps<=30]+bestaudio/bestvideo+bestaudio/best'" ; open-in-browser ; set browser "links %u"
macro Y ; set browser "mpv --volume=80 --no-cache --ytdl-format='bestaudio'" ; open-in-browser ; set browser "links %u"

You can edit mpv launch parameters for your needs.

2. Open newsboat, refresh your feeds, open "YouTube" feed, select any video and press ,y or ,Y for audio only.