Edit: In my experience Piped or Invidious gets rate limited often and stop loading videos for a while and I need to change instances. Freetube doesn’t have that problem, the only times videos stop working is when youtube changes something, when that happens I use Freetube to grab the video link and run a script to download with yt-dl and watch on the mpv player.
script that I grabbed on the internet
#!/usr/bin/env bash# Directory for downloaded videos:
DL_DIR="$HOME/Downloads/yt"mkdir -p $DL_DIR# Video player:#PLAYER="xdg-open"
PLAYER="/usr/bin/mpv"#PLAYER="/usr/bin/smplayer"# Downloader and options:
YTDL="/bin/yt-dlp"
YTDL_OPTS=(--no-playlist -S "res:1080" -N 5 --add-chapters)
YTDL_DIR_OPTS=(-P "$DL_DIR")
set -e
CMD() {
printf"[CMD]: "printf"\"%s\" ""$@"printf"\n""$@"
}
# Get URL from clipboard if run without argument:if [ -z "$1" ]; then
URL="$(xclip -o -sel c)"# CMD qdbus org.kde.klipper /klipper org.kde.klipper.klipper.clearClipboardHistoryelse
URL="$1"fi# Get video filenameprintf"[URL]: %s\n""$URL"
FILENAME=$("$YTDL" --get-filename "${YTDL_DIR_OPTS[@]}""$URL")
printf"[FILE]: %s\n""$FILENAME"# Download video
CMD "$YTDL""${YTDL_OPTS[@]}""${YTDL_DIR_OPTS[@]}""$URL"# Play video
CMD "$PLAYER""$FILENAME" >/dev/null 2>&1
I also configured a cronjob to clean the directory everyday.
Freetube
Edit: In my experience Piped or Invidious gets rate limited often and stop loading videos for a while and I need to change instances. Freetube doesn’t have that problem, the only times videos stop working is when youtube changes something, when that happens I use Freetube to grab the video link and run a script to download with yt-dl and watch on the mpv player.
script that I grabbed on the internet
#!/usr/bin/env bash # Directory for downloaded videos: DL_DIR="$HOME/Downloads/yt" mkdir -p $DL_DIR # Video player: #PLAYER="xdg-open" PLAYER="/usr/bin/mpv" #PLAYER="/usr/bin/smplayer" # Downloader and options: YTDL="/bin/yt-dlp" YTDL_OPTS=(--no-playlist -S "res:1080" -N 5 --add-chapters) YTDL_DIR_OPTS=(-P "$DL_DIR") set -e CMD() { printf "[CMD]: " printf "\"%s\" " "$@" printf "\n" "$@" } # Get URL from clipboard if run without argument: if [ -z "$1" ]; then URL="$(xclip -o -sel c)" # CMD qdbus org.kde.klipper /klipper org.kde.klipper.klipper.clearClipboardHistory else URL="$1" fi # Get video filename printf "[URL]: %s\n" "$URL" FILENAME=$("$YTDL" --get-filename "${YTDL_DIR_OPTS[@]}" "$URL") printf "[FILE]: %s\n" "$FILENAME" # Download video CMD "$YTDL" "${YTDL_OPTS[@]}" "${YTDL_DIR_OPTS[@]}" "$URL" # Play video CMD "$PLAYER" "$FILENAME" >/dev/null 2>&1I also configured a cronjob to clean the directory everyday.