Myt

A CLI tool for searching and watching videos on youtube with no spyware and MPV and yt-dlp

Requirements

• Python 3.8 and higher -- https://python.org/
• A POSIX complient OS -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POSIX
• Python logging -- https://pypi.org/project/logging/
• Python readline -- https://pypi.org/project/readline/
• GNU readline -- https://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/readline/rltop.html
• Python configparser -- https://pypi.org/project/configparser/
• Python typing -- https://pypi.org/project/typing/
• Python requests -- https://pypi.org/project/requests/
• Python colorama -- https://pypi.org/project/colorama/
• Python python-mpv -- https://pypi.org/project/python-mpv/
• LibMPV -- https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/tree/master/libmpv
• MPV -- https://mpv.io/
• Python plumbum -- https://pypi.org/project/plumbum/
• Python pyfzf -- https://pypi.org/project/pyfzf/
• FZF -- https://github.com/junegunn/fzf
• yt-dlp -- https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
• man-db -- https://man-db.nongnu.org/

Extra dependencies for development

• Python mypy -- https://pypi.org/project/mypy/
• Python isort -- https://pypi.org/project/isort/
• Python flake8 -- https://pypi.org/project/flake8/
• Python pycodestyle -- https://pypi.org/project/pycodestyle/
• Python black -- https://pypi.org/project/black/
• Python pyflakes -- https://pypi.org/project/pyflakes/
• Python pylint -- https://pypi.org/project/pylint/
• Python pydoc -- https://docs.python.org/3/library/pydoc.html
• man-to-md -- https://github.com/mle86/man-to-md or https://ari-web.xyz/gentooatom/app-misc/man-to-md

To install them:

# Install only dev dependencies
python3 -m pip install --user --upgrade -r requirements.dev.txt

Or

# Install all dependencies
python3 -m pip install --user --upgrade -r requirements.txt -r requirements.dev.txt

After that install the extra non-python dependencies like man-to-md

Optional:

• Ncurses -- https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/

Installation

Manual

python3 -m pip install --user --upgrade -r requirements.txt
sudo install -Dm0644 doc/myt.1 /usr/share/man/man1/myt.1
sudo mandb -qf /usr/share/man/man1/myt.1
sudo install -Dm755 src/myt /usr/local/bin

Also manually install non-python dependencies like LibMPV, FZF, etc. listed in dependencies section above

Packages

• Linux
  • Gentoo linux: net-misc/myt::dinolay

Customisation

Config file can be found in ~/.config/myt.conf, it is automatically generated first launch, more on that in the myt(1) manual page:

man myt