On several occasions we have spoken here on the blog of YouTube and of the various tools that allow us to interact with said video platform, I personally believe that the most notable application currently is youtube-dl, a free application that gives us the ability to download YouTube videos.
This time we are going to make known to mps-youtube an application with the same purpose of youtube-dl but it adds extra features such as video playback, advanced search, playlist creation, among others.
What is mps-youtube?
It is a multiplatform tool (Linux, Windows and MacOS), open source, developed in Python, based on mps that allows us to search, transmit and download music from YouTube from the terminal.
The tool has a series of remarkable features that we list below:
- Free and open source terminal-based tool.
- Multi platform.
- Allows you to search and play audio / video from Youtube
- It has functionalities to search album tracks by album title.
- Find and import YouTube playlists
- Create and save local playlists
- Convert to mp3 and other formats (requires ffmpeg or avconv)
- View video comments.
- Works with Python 3.x
- It only requires the mplayer or mpv libraries.
- Clean, nice interface and compatibility with various technologies.
We can see the characteristics of mps-youtube in the following gallery distributed by its developers.
How to install mps-youtube
The installation of mps-youtube is simple, it is enough that we have python 3 installed and that we execute the following commands to have it working in any linux distro.
We install the necessary dependencies
$ sudo pip3 install dbus-python pygobject
We install mps-youtube
Sudo pip3 install mps-youtube
Optionally we can install youtube_dl
Sudo pip3 install youtube_dl
Then we simply run mps-youtube from the terminal, for this we must execute mpsyt
and we will be able to enjoy all its functionalities, to visualize the necessary commands for the correct use of the tool we can execute mpsyst -h
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This is a pretty nice alternative to the many youtube-related tools, with a lot more features than the traditional ones.
Great for watching videos without lags on low-resource computers
Hi. Che, although it searches when I put play, it only sounds but nothing is seen…. I chose VLC as the player. What could I do???
On the other hand my idea is to use it on a low-resource machine, so I would like the video player to be as light and fast as possible. Do you recommend someone else instead of VLC?
Saludos y gracias
Thanks for the resource, I have been looking and there is an option in the graphic part that is to use https://atubecatcher.gratis but this way is also very useful as always.