youtube-subscriptions-0.2.39 is not a library.

youtube-subscriptions

terminal UI for viewing youtube subscriptions. Especially well suited for Raspberry Pi.

requirements

youtube-dl to download youtube videos
omxplayer or vlc to play videos

installing

You can download a self-contained binary from releases page

setup

Download your youtube subscriptions OPML. and save it as the following file: ~/.config/youtube-subscriptions/subscription_manager

usage

press h for help.

configuration

example:

{
  "video_path": "__HOME/.cache/yts/videos",
  "cache_path": "__HOME/.cache/yts/yts.json",
  "youtubedl_format": "[height <=? 360][ext = mp4]",
  "video_extension": "mp4",
  "players": [
    ["/usr/bin/mplayer", "-fs"]
  ],
  "channel_ids": []
}

field	description	default value
video_path	directory where videos will be stored	`/tmp`
cache_path	file path where video list will be stored	`/tmp/yts.json`
players	list of players command for videos in order of priority
youtubedl_format	see youtube-dl doc	`[height <=? 360][ext = mp4]`
video_extension	youtube-dl video extension as per format	`mp4`
channel_ids	list of additional channel ids which will be also fetched	`[]`

__HOME will be substituted with the home path.

download mode

You can update the subscriptions and download the last N videos by running. Here with N = 5:

$ youtube-subscriptions 5

This is very usefull to download your subscriptions in a cron.

Don't forget to put the path were youtube-dl is installed.

Example crontab:

PATH=/home/pi/.local/bin/:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
50 * * * * /home/pi/youtube-subscriptions 5 > /home/pi/youtube-subscriptions.log 2>&1

cross compiling for raspberry pi

simply run:

./cross-build-raspberry.sh

binary will be in target/arm-unknown-linux-gnueabihf/release/youtube-subscriptions

youtube-subscriptions 0.2.39