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watch youtube channels on your raspberry pi from cli
play_video() {
youtube-dl -g $1 | xargs omxplayer
}
play_most_recent_channel_video() {
wget -q -O- "http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/base/videos?alt=rss&orderby=published&author=$1" | grep -o '<link>http://www.youtube.com/watch[^<]*</link>' | grep -o 'http[^&]*' | head -1 | xargs youtube-dl -g | xargs omxplayer
}
play_most_recent_from_playlist() {
channels=( "UC67Vc0fkLYeUPBp1f02VY9Q" "UCKrD_GYN3iDpG_uMmADPzJQ" )
for channel in "${channels[@]}"
do
play_most_recent_channel_video $channel
done
}
alias yt=play_video
alias ytc=play_most_recent_channel_video
alias ytp=play_most_recent_from_playlist
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