About

Youtui - a simple TUI YouTube Music player written in Rust aiming to implement an Artist->Albums workflow for searching for music, and using discoverability principles for navigation. Inspired by https://github.com/ccgauche/ytermusic/ and cmus.

Ytmapi-rs - an asynchronous API for YouTube Music using Google's internal API, Tokio and Reqwest. Inspired by https://github.com/sigma67/ytmusicapi/.

This project is not supported or endorsed by Google.

Features

• Quickly and easily display entire artist's discography
• Buffer upcoming songs
• Search suggestions
• Sorting and filtering

Demo

How to install and run

1. The easiest way to install is using crates.io by running cargo install youtui.
   1. Alternatively, youtui is now available in the AUR, install using your favourite helper (e.g paru -S youtui).
2. Give the application an authorisation header:
   1. Open YouTube Music in your browser - ensure you are logged in.
   2. Open web developer tools (F12).
   3. Open Network tab and locate a POST request to music.youtube.com.
   4. Copy the Cookie into a text file named cookie.txt into your local youtui config directory (e.g ~/.config/youtui/ on Linux). Note you will need to create the directory if it does not exist.
3. To run the TUI application, execute youtui with no arguments.
4. To use the API in command-line mode, execute youtui --help to see available commands.

Cookie extraction examples

Firefox example (Right click and Copy Value): Chrome example (Select manually and paste):

Dependencies note

General

• A font that can render FontAwesome symbols is required.

Linux specific

• Youtui uses the Rodio library for playback which relies on Cpal https://github.com/rustaudio/cpal for ALSA support. The cpal readme mentions the that the ALSA development files are required which can be found in the following packages:
  • libasound2-dev (Debian / Ubuntu)
  • alsa-lib-devel (Fedora)

Limitations

• Github version number and tags are only relevant for the binary component of the application. For the latest release version of ytmapi-rs, please refer to crates.io.
• This project is under heavy development, and interfaces could change at any time. The project will use semantic versioning to indicate when interfaces have stabilised.
• The Rodio library used for playback does not currently support seeking or checking progress although there are PRs in progress for both. Progress updates are currently emulated with a ticker and may be slightly out, and seeking is not yet implemented.

Roadmap

Application

• Windows support (target for 0.0.1)
• Configuration folder support (target for 0.0.1)
• Implement improved download speed
• Filtering (target for 0.0.3)
• Logging to a file
• Release to AUR (target for 0.0.4)
• Remove reliance on rust nightly (target for 0.0.4)
• Dbus support for media keys
• Seeking
• Mouse support
• Offline cache
• Streaming of buffered tracks
• OAuth authentication including automatic refresh of tokens
• Display lyrics and album cover (pixel art)
• Theming
• Configurable key bindings

API

• Document public API
• Automatically update User Agent using a library
• Implement endpoint continuations
• Implement all endpoints
• OAuth authentication
• i18n

* get watch playlist is partially implemented only

• only returns playlist and lyrics ids

* get artist is partially implemented only

• only returns albums and songs

* get history is partially implemented only

• does not return a date, and remove from history feedback items are not generated.

Additional information

See the wiki for additional information https://github.com/nick42d/youtui/wiki