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Cake day: December 18th, 2020

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  • Forgot to mention that mpv is how I actually watch the videos. Newsboat downloads a list from each channel kinda like an RSS feed. I can then select any video & download it by pressing a keybinding. It’s been a while since I last had to actually set this up, but off memory, here’s some quick info…

    The file ~/.newsboat/urls contains URLs similar to the one below. Just replace CHANNEL_ID with the actual channel ID. You can find the channel ID in the URL of the channel’s page…

    https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=CHANNEL_ID

    With the URLs in place you can edit your newsboat config file to set up a key binding for downloading videos using yt-dlp. It should be as simple as adding something like the following to the config…

    macro d set browser “yt-dlp %u”; open-in-browser ; set browser “xdg-open %u”

    This binds the d key to use yt-dlp to download videos.