A lightweight application (fork of straw-viewer) for searching and playing videos from YouTube.

This fork parses the YouTube website directly and relies on the invidious instances only as a fallback method.

• command-line interface to YouTube.

• GTK+ interface to YouTube.

The project is in its early stages of development and some features are not implemented yet.

• Arch Linux (AUR): https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pipe-viewer-git/
• Void Linux: sudo xbps-install pipe-viewer

• [EN] Pipe-Viewer and Straw-Viewer -- Search Youtube via Terminal - Linux CLI
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4tfHUmklWo

For trying the latest commit of pipe-viewer, without installing it, execute the following commands:

    cd /tmp
    wget https://github.com/trizen/pipe-viewer/archive/main.zip -O pipe-viewer-main.zip
    unzip -n pipe-viewer-main.zip
    cd pipe-viewer-main/bin
    ./pipe-viewer

To install pipe-viewer, run:

    perl Build.PL
    sudo ./Build installdeps
    sudo ./Build install

To install gtk-pipe-viewer along with pipe-viewer, run:

    perl Build.PL --gtk
    sudo ./Build installdeps
    sudo ./Build install

• libwww-perl
• LWP::Protocol::https
• Data::Dump
• JSON

• Gtk3
• File::ShareDir
• + the dependencies required by pipe-viewer.

• Module::Build

• Local cache support: LWP::UserAgent::Cached
• Better STDIN support (+history): Term::ReadLine::Gnu
• Faster JSON deserialization: JSON::XS
• Fixed-width formatting: Unicode::LineBreak or Text::CharWidth

To package this application, run the following commands:

    perl Build.PL --destdir "/my/package/path" --installdirs vendor [--gtk]
    ./Build test
    ./Build install --install_path script=/usr/bin

To use a specific invidious instance, like invidious.snopyta.org, we have (see also the --invidious option):

    pipe-viewer --api=invidious.snopyta.org

To make the change permanent, set in the configuration file:

    api_host => "invidious.snopyta.org",

By default, pipe-viewer picks a random invidious instance from api.invidious.io on-demand.

After installing, you can find documentation with the following commands:

man pipe-viewer
perldoc WWW::PipeViewer

Copyright (C) 2012-2021 Trizen

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either: the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; or the Artistic License.

See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/ for more information.