A Youtube Cli For Mac

Jul 20, 2018 - youtube-dl is an Open Source command line tool that lets you download video from YouTube (and many other videos sites). Command-line cloud music player for Linux that supports Spotify, Google Play Music, YouTube, SoundCloud, and Dirble. Pandora support. Tidal support. YouTube live streams. REPL command line interface. Mac OS support.

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Out of laziness, I mostly listen to music off these days. As a library it’s pretty unbeatable, and I don’t have to worry about plugging in an external HDD with a big library. Using the browser for selecting songs is a drag, but I’ve always used visual interfaces (originally iTunes, then a combination of and ).

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Also, Flash player munches on your battery pretty bad. And I generally try to avoid executing anything with Flash.

Turns out there’s a CLI for YouTube, with vim-like keybindings no less! Since it requires a newer version of Perl than what’s bundled with OSX, you need to do a little work to get it running. Perl 5.16.0 The Perl version bundled with OSX in /usr/bin/perl with Mac OSX 10.7.5, is 5.12.3. Considering Apple’s tendency to let the CLI tools bundled with OSX rot, I doubt newer versions have a more up-to-date version. It’s entirely possible that some system-level functionality depends on an old version of Perl, so updating at the root level would be a Very Bad Idea. Fortunately, there’s a available on.