#Shelltube

Shelltube is a collection of (pretty POSIX) shell scripts to browse YouTube quickly, efficiently, and without the bloat most command-line clients require.

Shelltube is written in pure shell; its only dependencies are any modern shell (pdksh, bash, zsh), curl/wget, and vlc/mplayer/kaffeine.

Even these dependencies, though, can easily be changed. If, for example, you don't have vlc, you can just modify a single line and be good-to-go using another player.

Also, Shelltube doesn't use the YouTube API at all. This avoids the annoying red-tapey stuff that goes with it-- IDs, registration, quotas-- but has some disadvantages. We'll power through the downsides, though! :)

USAGE:

Shelltube is quite simple to use; this tutorial will go over the usage of the wrapper script, shelltube.sh. When running the script, you'll see a prompt:

In this prompt you can type any of the following commands: (!) about View the about page. (cls) clear Clear the screen. (dl) download [URL] Download the selected/specified video. exit Exit Shelltube. (?) help Display this message. (md) metadata [URL] Display selected/specified video's MD. (/) search {term} Perform a search. (str) stream [URL] Stream the selected/specified video. (sel) video {URL} Select video based on URL or ID.

In (parenthesis), smaller aliases for the commands are written. In {curly brackets}, required arguments are written. In [brackets], optional arguments are written.

You can use Shelltube in one of two ways (or both): A) By selecting a video and then doing something with it B) By doing something and specifying the video

Method A entails using either the "video" or "search" command to select a video, which will then be displayed before the prompt like so: $VIDEO_ID_HERE >> When a video is selected, you use the "download", "stream", or "metadata" commands without arguments to act on the video.

Method B entails just using the "download", "stream", or "metadata" commands while using a URL or video ID as an argument. For example:

download $VIDEO_ID_HERE

You could opt to not use this interactive wrapper script and instead just use the yt-down.sh, yt-search.sh, and yt-metadata.sh scripts on their own.

They are each pretty simple, and you can read their USAGE messages at the top of each script.

LICENSING:

All of ST is released under the ISC license (https://opensource.org/licenses/ISC) except for the yt-down.sh script, which is released under the GPLv2 (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html)

CREDIT:

jadedctrl wrote most of ST, but iluaster wrote almost all of yt-down.sh