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straw-viewer (search and stream videos from youtube)
straw-viewer is a lightweight application for searching and streaming
-videos from YouTube, using the API of invidio.us[2]. The project is in its
-early development stages and some features are not implemented yet.
+videos from YouTube, using the API of invidio.us[2]. The project is
+in its early development stages and some features are not implemented
+yet.
straw-viewer is a fork of youtube-viewer that does not require a Google
API key. Usage and user interface are identical to youtube-viewer.
@@ -28,10 +29,11 @@ Counting optional ones, straw-viewer has over 40 dependencies. To make
life easier, there's a "straw-viewer.sqf" queue file included with this
build, which includes everything listed above.
-This build always includes the command-line client (straw-viewer). For the
-GTK client (gtk-straw-viewer[3]), install perl-Gtk3 and perl-File-ShareDir
-before running this script. If you have them installed but don't want
-gtk-straw-viewer, you can set GTK=no in the script's environment.
+This build always includes the command-line client (straw-viewer). For
+the GTK client (gtk-straw-viewer[3]), install perl-Gtk3 and
+perl-File-ShareDir before running this script. If you have them
+installed but don't want gtk-straw-viewer, you can set GTK=no in the
+script's environment.
Notes:
@@ -41,12 +43,13 @@ Notes:
straw-viewer will fail to play videos at all! If you suspect this,
remove youtube-dl and try without it.
-[2] The default API host is http://invidious.snopyta.org. If straw-viewer gives
+[2] The default API host is http://invidious.snopyta.org. If you get
"Bad gateway" or "Too many requests" errors, try changing the
api_host in ~/.config/straw-viewer/straw-viewer.conf or via
the --api-host option. A list of API hosts can be found at:
https://instances.invidio.us/
-[3] To force gtk-straw-viewer to use your preferred terminal for downloading
- with wget and watching in a terminal, set TERMINAL in the script's
- environment (e.g. TERMINAL="xterm" or TERMINAL="urxvt").
+[3] To force gtk-straw-viewer to use your preferred terminal for
+ downloading with wget and watching in a terminal, set
+ TERMINAL in the script's environment (e.g. TERMINAL="xterm" or
+ TERMINAL="urxvt").