mps-youtube-hd

Added Features

• View videos in resolutions higher than 360p, for instance 1080p or 2160p. This is done by utilizing the youtude-dl backend built into mpv, rather than extracting a single stream.
• Works with mpv ytdl-format scripts, like mpv-youtube-quality.
• Requires mpv.
• Available in the AUR.
• Important: Will not work without a (free) Youtube API key!

Original Features

• Search and play audio/video from YouTube
• Search tracks of albums by album title
• Search and import YouTube playlists
• Create and save local playlists
• Download audio/video
• Convert to mp3 & other formats (requires ffmpeg or avconv)
• View video comments
• Works with Python 3.x
• Works with Windows, Linux and Mac OS X

This project is based on mps, a terminal based program to search, stream and download music. This implementation uses YouTube as a source of content and can play and download video as well as audio. The pafy library handles interfacing with YouTube.

FAQ / Troubleshooting common issues

Screenshots

Search

A standard search is performed by entering / followed by search terms.

Note: You can play all of the search results by giving 1- as input

Local Playlists

Search result items can easily be stored in local playlists.

YouTube Playlists

YouTube playlists can be searched and played or saved as local playlists.

A playlist search is performed by // followed by search term.

Download

Content can be downloaded in various formats and resolutions.

Comments

A basic comments browser is available to view YouTube user comments.

Music Album Matching

An album title can be specified and mps-youtube will attempt to find matches for each track of the album, based on title and duration. Type help search for more info.

Customisation

Search results can be customised to display additional fields and ordered by various criteria.

This configuration was set up using the following commands:

set order views
set columns user:14 date comments rating likes dislikes category:9 views

Type help config for help on configuration options

Installation

Arch Linux

You can install mps-youtube-hd from the AUR (mps-youtube-hd-git).

Usage

mps-youtube is run on the command line using the command:

mpsyt

Enter h from within the program for help.