ytmp

A lightweight YouTube-based music player

Setup

1. Install mpv on your OS (sudo apt-get install mpv, sudo pacman -S mpv, sudo emerge mpv). Sorry, mpv is an external dependency as of now. You can skip this step if you are into providing your own https-capable video player (like VLC or mplayer) using the -p flag
2. Run yarn global add ytmp

CLI

A binary called ytmp is provided

Usage:
    ytmp --help
    ytmp [ options ] [ [--play] [--mix] [--radio] ] [--] [string]
    ytmp [ options ] --search [--] [string...]
    ytmp [ options ] --id=id | --id [--] [id]
    ytmp [ options ] --url=url | --url [--] [url]

Behaviour control:
    -x, --play      Play the selected playlist and/or video
                    Used in playlists to exit after playling all the songs.
    -m, --mix       After the playlist or video is over start a
                    non-personalized YouTube Mix
    -r, --radio     At the end, don't exit but start an endless radio instead

    The default behaviour is dependent on the song selection

Song selection:
    -s, --search    Use the positional argument(s) to perform a search and use
                    the first result as the video or playlist
    -i, --id id     Use the given ID or URL (either video, playlist or channel)
                    The value can also be supplied either as positional, after
                    the double-dash
    -u, --url url   And alias for --id. Behaviour may change.
    
    By default if the supplied positional argument(s) is a valid playlist or
    video ID or URL then used so, else a search is performed.

Format options:
    -a, --audio     Audio-only, never ever show video
    -v, --video     Optimize for video.
    -av             Select formats with video but optimize for audio

Developer options:
    -p, --player p Use a custom audio and video player executable. "mpv" by
                   default. A recommended alternative is mplayer or ffplay.
                   Should be able to play http streams.
    --saveinfo [f] Save latest video info, optionally to the given file
    --quiet        Don't log to stdout
    -v, --verbose  Log to stderr

API

const ytmp = require(ytmp)
 
let info = await ytmp(url_or_id_or_searchstring, options)
info = await ytmp.play(url_or_id_or_searchstring_or_info, options)
info = await ytmp.playMix(info || "Developers" || "KMU0tzLwhbE", {audio: true, video: false})
info = ytmp.playRadio(info || "Oxygene COMPLETE" || "PLCFC37B95C9159ACC", {player: "C:\Program Files\vlc\vlc.exe"})

The main exported function is intelligent, i.e. does not accept an info-object, but accepts a search string tries to guess what the user wants.

Every function returns an info promise and accepts an URL or an ID indicating a video, a playlist or a channel or an info object or promise returned from a previous call. Passing the unresolved promise makes content preloading possible.

Every function accepts an options objects as a second arguments which controls its behaviour. Currently undocumented, accepts the CLI arguments, look in the source code for usage.