tube2cast.sh does only one thing: it downloads videos from YouTube (actually, from any website that youtube-dl can talk to) and then serves their audio portion over HTTP. You can then stream the audio to your smartphone or similar device.

I wrote it because I want to be able to "watch" to talks and tutorials on YouTube without having to deal with their app.

The script is pretty simple and depends on python3 and youtube-dl. I'll be expanding on these notes and adding features as I need them.

By default, tube2cast.sh downloads a video, converts it to vorbis and serves the file at port 8000. If that's what you need, simply run

tube2cast.sh [link to YouTube video]

To download this video from YouTube, have it converted to mp3 and served at port 8080, run:

tube2cast.sh -f mp3 -port 8080 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

• "tube2cast.sh is using the built-in options for port and filetype.
  • You are probably giving the YouTube link before the options. Instead, run tube2cast.sh like this: tube2cast.sh [options] [link to YouTube video].

• Implement a way of showing your local IP, for convenience. I could grep and awk this from ifconfig, but not everybody uses the same interfaces.
• Create install scripts and package for Arch Linux.
• Enjoy the script.