swipswaps/ytdl-streamer

A simple bash script that streams a youtube video to mplayer.

ytdl-streamer

Introduction

A simple bash script that can stream your youtube video right to your player right from terminal

Useage

Clone or download this repo. cd to your repo directory. Install required dependencies via pip.

Just execute sudo chmod +x ./playmusic.sh and run. It will ask you to input your search term, and will stream it directly to mplayer

Here is the whole process summarized:

machine@localhost$ git clone "https://github.com/codeasashu/ytdl-streamer.git"
machine@localhost$ cd ytdl-streamer
machine@localhost$ pip install -r requirements.txt
machine@localhost$ sudo chmod +x ./playmusic.sh 
machine@localhost$ ./playmusic.sh "in the end linkin park"

This will automatically pick best result from youtube api for the search term and will start playing the mp3 for you.

Sidenote

This program requires ffmpeg, youtube-dl and mplayer. Please install one before using this script. For Ubuntu 12.04 or 14.04 users, use this bash script