ytel-show

Browse youtube from emacs! This package relies on ytel to fetch information.

Easy setup

(define-key ytel-mode-map (kbd "RET") #'ytel-show)

OR

(use-package ytel-show
  :after ytel
  :bind (:map ytel-mode-map ("RET" . ytel-show)))

Usage

Ytel-Show

n|p

switch videos

G

recache video information

Ytel-Show-Comments

l

go to previous page

g

retry downloading failed page

Customization

Default buffer name: ytel-show-default-buffer-name, ytel-show-comments-default-buffer-name.

Thumbnail sizes: ytel-show-image-max-width, ytel-show-image-max-height

Faces: ytel-show-video-likes-face, ytel-show-author-subs-face, ytel-show-comments-owner-face

Extensibility

You can easily extend this package by giving ytel-show function a buffer argument and a vector of video-ids. Your videos will be display in a new buffer. For example: you could customize browse-url-browser-function to detect youtube video urls and display them using ytel-show.

Same thing with ytel-show-comments. It takes id, title and a buffer.

Note

Viewed videos are set with ytel-show command. In order to load videos from other ytel pages, you should switch page in ytel buffer and call ytel-show again.

Same thing with ytel-show-comments command. It sets all the necessary information.

Caveats

Sometimes json-reader will fail to parse a response from invidious instance or the connection will timeout. You will see an almost empty buffer. Usually, hitting the G (ytel-show-reload-video-data) key a couple of times helps.

Sometimes invidous instance will send empty author thumbnail urls, so they will not be shown.

If the first comments page won’t load properly, try hitting g.

If nothing of the above helps, change invidious instance.

Currently, I don’t have a solution for these problems.

Bugs

If you find bugs, please, report it by writing an issue or send a PR. Thanks!