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Youtube Without Youtube; Watching Videos on the Command Line

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I don’t have a Google account. This is a “problem” that is sometimes surprisingly easy to navigate, and sometimes surprisingly hard. At other times it is just very annoying. One particular annoyance is Youtube. Because I don’t have any way to “subscribe” to channels, I just end up using a mixture of the algorithm and manually searching specific channels using the search bar. This works, but is quite annoying and time-consuming. It also does not really allow me to “prioritize” videos, and I’ve had some times where I “missed” a video that I wanted to watch earlier. One additional caveat is that I like to watch videos with mpv, because it is an excellent player, has good CLI-Integration, sensible keybindings and support for a lot of Codecs. It also allows me to queue up multiple videos using umpv. So ideally, my solution will allow me to continue doing this.

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