Support for macOS

[EdricChan03]

P.S I found this project from your Reddit post while looking for GUI alternatives to youtube-dl.

Anyways, could there be support for a macOS package installer or something similar?

[axcore]

@EdricChan03, I don't have access to a Mac so I can't create a package installer. It should be fairly simple, but someone else will have to do it.

Tartube can actually be run without installation (most of the time). You might need to install some python stuff first; I don't know.

Installation on macOS via PyPI should be possible, too.

[noahbroyles]

I also am a Mac Man. How could I run this on my mac, is there a main python file I can just call like python3 main.py?

[axcore]

At a very minimum you would need to install Python 3 (Python 2 will not work), the python package manager pip, and the graphics library Gtk 3 (Gtk 2 will not work).

Once you have those, install the Python requests module via pip.

From there, installation should be similar to that on Linux/BSD. Either run the source code (see sections 5.3.6 and 5.3.7) or install via pip (see section 5.3.2).

Sorry I can't be more precise than that, but I haven't even touched a Mac since the 1990s.

tl;dr: The command is python3 tartube/tartube, and it must be run from the directory above the one containing main.py.

[noahbroyles]

I have python3.8, pip, and requests on my Mac already. Only when I try to run tartube, I get: ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'gi' I think this is because I cannot properly install pygobject3. I get some pip errors when trying to install it. I have a horrible feeling that I should be using python3.7 and not python3.8.

I was able to successfully install tartube on one of my Linux machines running Ubuntu, and I like it a lot!

[volcs0]

I got through the installation process on my mac by following the instructions in the README and installing the dependencies. When I just execute tartube (/usr/local/bin/tartube) I get the error: "pkg_resources.ResolutionError: Script 'scripts/tartube' not found in metadata at '/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/tartube-2.0.6.dist-info'"

When I try to run tartube directly ("python3 tartube") I get the error: "ValueError: Namespace Notify not available"

I'd like to get the /usr/local/bin/tartube running. Any advice? Thanks.

[axcore]

I'm sorry, I have no idea. I have not seen the same error messages on my system.

[joremysh]

I got through the installation process on my mac by following the instructions in the README and installing the dependencies. When I just execute tartube (/usr/local/bin/tartube) I get the error: "pkg_resources.ResolutionError: Script 'scripts/tartube' not found in metadata at '/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/tartube-2.0.6.dist-info'"

When I try to run tartube directly ("python3 tartube") I get the error: "ValueError: Namespace Notify not available"

I'd like to get the /usr/local/bin/tartube running. Any advice? Thanks.

I met the same question as @volcs0, but according to your comment "Notify" is a package on linux, right? So I tried to commented those lines out. gi.require_version('Notify', '0.7') Notify.init('Tartube')

And now I met another issue. https://gist.github.com/JeremyShih/1ebd196d4a1d9295efac32a40fde762d

[axcore]

Tartube doesn't try to use Notify on MS Windows, so for the purposes of testing, we could just ignore it generally.

Assuming Tartube v2.1.070, in the file ../tartube/mainwin.py, at lines 39, 759 and 3365

if os.name != 'nt':

Could be replaced with something like

if False:

...taking care to preserve indentation.

EDIT: In case it's not obvious, os.name does not distinguish between Linux and MacOS, so for releasable code it would have to be replaced with something else.

[joremysh]

I just succeeded!!! Yeah!!!!! finally something appeared!!!! After testing with the functions, I will provide the steps or update them in the document.

Yes I saw Tartube doesn't try to use Notify on MS Windows. I am trying to get it running on my Mac. And I guess it also doesn't work directly on macOS after googling about it and everyone said apt-get install gir1.2-notify-0.7... Maybe Tartube should also ignore that on macOS until we found some other choice for Notify.

[axcore]

@JeremyShih I amended the code to remove Notify as a dependency for MacOS. You can get v2.1.074 from here on github or via PyPi. Perhaps you can test it for me, and tell me if it works.

[axcore]

Thanks a lot for getting that working. Can Ffmpeg be installed on your system, and can Tartube detect it? (It's pretty much a necessity for many users).

If so, I can update the README for that.

[ntphx]

As a heads-up; following the install instructions for macOS will crash when trying to install pycairo without having first installed its dependency pkg-config normally through brew install pkg-config

edit; Currently does not run on macOS when following instructions as written

[axcore]

Thanks, I have updated the README to add that step.

[joremysh]

oh I didn't notice that since I already have pkg-config installed. Thanks about that.

@axcore I have also tested with ffmpeg brew install ffmpeg The above commend is for installing it. I didn't set path to ffmpeg binary in system preferences and only updated setting in download options. And I got a m4a file. So I guess it works without specifying the path.

[axcore]

Splendid! I think we can close this issue, in that case. Feel free to re-open it if you run into any issues, and thanks again for all your work.

[joremysh]

Just tried to package tartube into a macOS app with py2app but failed.

with the original setup.py and command python setup.py py2app -A will get error error: You must specify either app or plugin

then tried adding an attr to setuptools.setup( app=[], still get the same error

I also tried with app=['tartube/tartube'] then got error error: [Errno 30] Read-only file system: '/tartube' it was copying the file '/python3.8/site-packages/py2app/apptemplate/prebuilt/main-x86_64' into '/dist/tartube.app/Contents/MacOS/tartube' but '/tartube' is not a folder and it failed.

[axcore]

I have not had any success with other automatic package builders, such as py2exe. I think none of them are compatible with Gtk.

[joremysh]

oh really How did you packaged the exe files then?

[axcore]

Using Msys2 and NSIS. It's all documented in this file.