cmus-youtube

A patch that allows you to download and play youtube songs using cmus

How to use ?

First , you have to download cmus code source , and build them .

$ git clone https://github.com/cmus/cmus.git

then go to cmus directory . Open the file command_mode.c , and add the content of patch-r1.c .

add this

{ "youtube",        cmd_youtube,    1, 1, NULL,       0, 0 },

after

{ "wq",         cmd_quit,   0, 1, NULL,       0, 0 },

save the command_mode.c file

and configure cmus .

List available optional features

$ ./configure --help

Auto-detect everything

$ ./configure

If you get a 'configure failed' error, run

$ sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev

To disable some feature, arts for example, and install to $HOME run

$ ./configure prefix=$HOME CONFIG_ARTS=n

Now open the Makefile and go to line 19

CFLAGS += -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64

add this

-D_YOUTUBE_DL=1

then build the source using

$ make

open cmus using

$ ./cmus

You can use cmus-youtube by using the command line :

:youtube <url>