YTPlayer

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Submitted by direc85 on Sun, 2021/01/31 - 04:07
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Beta version! In this version - and every future version - you must enter your own YouTube V3 API Key, Client ID and Client Secret in order to use the application. It is a thing and a half to do, but you can follow this guide to obtain your own keys. This may have implications to your Google account, so do this at your own risk.

There is also an experimental, untested aarch64 version available.

YTPlayer is an unofficial YouTube client for SailfishOS. With it you can - you guessed it - watch YouTube videos! You can log in, like and dislike videos, subscribe and unsubscribe to channels among other things.

I forked and bundled a minimal version of youtube-dl to increase speed and increase YTPlayer user experience. YouTube now works on your old trusty Jolla Phone without any issues! At this time the update functionality is disabled; this version is bundled with youtube-dl-lite 2020.05.08.

Current versions are for SailfishOS 3.3.0 Rokua and newer. For older SailfishOS versions (tested with 2.2.1 Nurmonjoki) please download the legacy release below.

harbour-ytplayer-0.6.16-1.armv7hl.rpm

arbour-ytplayer-0.6.16-1.i486.rpm

Known limitations:

  • Only 360p and 720p videos are supported
  • Some vides are available only at 360p
  • Fetching newest videos from all subscribed channels doesn't work
  • Recommened videos may not show relevant results

This version is a fork of YTPlayer by osetr, which is a fork of YTPlayer by tworaz.

Source code is available at GitHub. Pull requests and translations are welcome! Especially tweaks regarding YouTube API v3 and coping with its limitations are highly appreciated!

If you like this app and would like to support me maintaining it, you can buy my a cup of coffee!

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Application versions: 
AttachmentSizeDate
File harbour-ytplayer-0.6.9-1.armv7hl.rpm273.92 KB15/09/2019 - 14:19
File harbour-ytplayer-0.6.9-1.i486.rpm295.42 KB15/09/2019 - 14:19
File harbour-ytplayer-0.6.10-1.armv7hl.rpm274.41 KB25/09/2019 - 01:07
File harbour-ytplayer-0.6.10-1.i486.rpm295.72 KB25/09/2019 - 01:07
File harbour-ytplayer-0.6.11-1.armv7hl.rpm274.7 KB23/02/2020 - 14:54
File harbour-ytplayer-0.6.11-1.i486.rpm296.09 KB23/02/2020 - 14:54
File harbour-ytplayer-0.6.12-1.armv7hl.rpm684.44 KB25/02/2020 - 01:39
File harbour-ytplayer-0.6.12-1.i486.rpm705.2 KB25/02/2020 - 01:39
File harbour-ytplayer-0.6.13-1.armv7hl.rpm683.85 KB22/03/2020 - 00:01
File harbour-ytplayer-0.6.13-1.i486.rpm704.84 KB22/03/2020 - 00:01
File harbour-ytplayer-0.6.14-1.armv7hl.rpm697.16 KB01/06/2020 - 00:22
File harbour-ytplayer-0.6.14-1.i486.rpm729.48 KB01/06/2020 - 00:22
File harbour-ytplayer-0.6.15-1.armv7hl.rpm696.52 KB01/06/2020 - 18:38
File harbour-ytplayer-0.6.15-1.i486.rpm729.67 KB01/06/2020 - 18:38
File harbour-ytplayer-0.6.16-1.armv7hl.rpm699.91 KB11/06/2020 - 09:23
File harbour-ytplayer-0.6.16-1.i486.rpm732.38 KB11/06/2020 - 09:23
File harbour-ytplayer-0.6.17-1.aarch64.rpm1.29 MB31/01/2021 - 04:07
File harbour-ytplayer-0.6.17-1.armv7hl.rpm1.28 MB31/01/2021 - 04:07
File harbour-ytplayer-0.6.17-1.i486.rpm1.31 MB31/01/2021 - 04:07
Changelog: 

0.6.17-1

  • Use youtube-dl instead of youtube-dl-lite for now
  • Update youtube-dl to 2021.01.24.1
  • Remove preinstalled API keys
  • Enable (require) user supplied API keys
  • Release experimental aarch64 version

Full change log can be found in GitHub.

Comments

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direc85

Tue, 2019/04/30 - 20:39

Whoops! I uploaded a wrong 0.6.2-1 build for armv7hl by accident, so please uninstall and install it again.

Sorry for the mixup!

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akikk88

Tue, 2019/04/30 - 20:36

Ok, thanks

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akikk88

Tue, 2019/04/30 - 19:34

1080p playback support?

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direc85

Tue, 2019/04/30 - 20:01

This has been on my mind, too. I'll see what I can do, once the current situation gets a bit more stable.

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direc85

Tue, 2019/04/30 - 11:08

I have a method for updating youtube-dl automatically, and it is high on my todo list. The quota issue comes first, though...

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mugshot

Thu, 2019/05/02 - 07:50

Nice! Thanks for the effort on maintaining the app, much appreciated! :)

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mugshot

Tue, 2019/04/30 - 10:55

Same issue. After updating, the app doesn't work. I'm back to using the Store version with manually updated youtube-dl, seems to work so far.

Could you check Vodman, and maybe implement an internal yt-dl update as the app itself works quite nicely? It's just the yt-dl that's the bottle neck here.

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Bocephus

Tue, 2019/04/30 - 08:56

Nothing works even with the latest update; log shows constant API quota errors. All pages are blank, including favorites and history. I'm not going to bother with this since Youtube works just fine in the stock browser.

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direc85

Mon, 2019/04/29 - 23:57

Sorry for the delays, I've been occupied by other things... Again, thanks for the feedback! I'll update youtube-dl and push the update soon!

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direc85

Tue, 2019/04/30 - 01:05

A quick note about the size increase: youtube-dl has grown that much since last update.

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RodSeq

Mon, 2019/04/29 - 22:13

Thanks for your indication, works again like a charm: Great App !

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kuba77

Sat, 2019/04/27 - 18:24

Via terminal:
devel-su

curl -L https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl -o /usr/share/harbour-ytplayer/bin/youtube-dl

chmod a+rx /usr/share/harbour-ytplayer/bin/youtube-dl

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carmenfdezb

Sun, 2019/04/28 - 13:54

Thanks!! I can watch all videos since I updated youtube-dl

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akikk88

Sat, 2019/04/27 - 13:46

How update youtube-dl?

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kuba77

Sat, 2019/04/27 - 01:57

It plays at least videos from favorites after download the latest youtube-dl.

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carmenfdezb

Tue, 2019/04/23 - 22:56

Is there any issue? It was working fine, but today it doesn't load any videos and categories are empty :/

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direc85

Tue, 2019/04/23 - 14:41

Using your own API keys would be great. I'll look into it! Thanks for the tip!

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247

Tue, 2019/04/23 - 10:30

Just noticed i can't subscribe to channels with the app, if i click on subscribe just nothing happens

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Shervrar

Wed, 2019/04/24 - 02:55

Right now it's not showing anything . Consider adding a way for us to use our own api keys (i think that's possible right ) please :)

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MartiMasa

Sun, 2019/03/31 - 12:54

PS: Would be happy if available in Jolla store at some point...it should be the standard YTplayer ;-)

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MartiMasa

Sun, 2019/03/31 - 12:51

Great progress, I like the refined app a lot and would be happy to donate! However, I noticed a glitch that it freezes (app completely unusable...even restart/reinstalling doesn't help) when browsing a YT channel :-( Hope you have time to check or eventually be able to fix it!

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akikk88

Fri, 2019/02/22 - 20:56

Is this app coming update jolla store? :)

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akikk88

Fri, 2019/02/22 - 20:43

But after all very good job!! Works very well with my sailfish x xperia xa2. Thank you! ☺

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direc85

Tue, 2019/02/19 - 22:27

Okay... It looks like IPv6/both on mobile broadband (DNA/Finland) breaks it. Using IP (IPv4) results in videos played flawlessly. Dang it!

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direc85

Tue, 2019/02/19 - 21:47

@akikk88 I have noticed the same thing. I have found mobile broadband being less successful than WLAN (even though I can play the same video on browser via either) on starting playback, so if possible, try it over WLAN. I'll try to figure out how to collect some useful debug information about this...

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akikk88

Thu, 2019/02/14 - 17:05

Some times shows videos, but not always..

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PawelSpoon

Wed, 2019/02/13 - 03:58

Thanks !

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carmenfdezb

Tue, 2019/02/12 - 21:53

New icon is really nice ;)

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247

Tue, 2019/02/12 - 18:30

Can't find any video too, had a look on terminal output and it says i have exceeded my quota, maybe this is useful

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direc85

Tue, 2019/02/12 - 18:38

That is correct; there seems to be a quota on the Google aggount I created. I will look into it soon (tomorrow).

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