interact with the youtube API to work with playlists and subscriptions from the terminal

[amtoine]

the pitch is simple

i like youtube but not really its web frontend, need to click everywhere, it's boring, tideous and slow

the answer might be complex

i would like to interact with the API to allow the management of youtube playlists and subscriptions from the terminal

• get the subscription feed, https://www.youtube.com/feed/subscriptions, as a list of videos
  • select one of them
    • put it in a playlist
    • remove it from a playlist
    • launch it in mpv
    • launch it in a browser
• get the list of playlists from the library, https://www.youtube.com/feed/library
  • select one of them
    • lauch it in mpv
    • laucnh it in a browser
    • reorder the videos with a terminal-based editor