youtube-cli For Linux

youtube-cli is a youtube client for the command line that supports searching downloading and streaming youtube video's from the command line.

command: search / download / stream query: 'multiple keywords' / singlekeyword order: relevance, viewcount or rating number of results: 1 - 50 timespan (optional): today, week, month, all shuffle (optional): shuffle

[ or { = prev ] or } = next p or P = pause r or R = reset q or Q = quit

./youtube.py search 'ukf drum and bass' rating 20 shuffle Returns 20 videos with query sorted by rating and shuffled

./youtube.py download 'ukf drum and bass' viewcount 10 shuffle Downloads 10 videos with query sorted by viewcount and shuffled

./youtube.py stream 'ukf drum and bass' relevance 2 month Stream 2 videos with query sorted by relevance and uploaded between now and a month ago.