asciitube

Collection of scripts to watch youtube videos in a terminal or tty

Dependencies

I am working on dependency recognition and installation for the main distributions as well as some others, all taken care of inside the script itself. As it is, here they are:

• youtube-dl - manual installation implemented
• mplayer
• aalib
• libcaca
• Node.js
• ytsearch for Node.js

To-do

• Detect resolution for output
• Fix dependency installation - syntax errors
• Streaming rather than downloading (if even possible)
• Windows/Mac OS X versions
  • I don't own a Mac so i can't do that myself. I will eventually be able to work on Windows though.

Systems with dependency-check compatibility

NOTE: All distributions are compatible with this script, but users of these systems can have the libraries and programs they need installed by the script instead of manually.

• Ubuntu
• Debian jessie/sid (certain packages are not available in wheezy or squeeze)
• Fedora
• openSUSE
• Arch
• Frugalware

Usage asciitube.sh [options]

Options: -c Use libcaca for colorized ASCII output -b Use aalib for black and white ASCII output -s Search query (surround in quotes if there is a space)