YTPlayer

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Submitted by direc85 on Thu, 2020/06/11 - 09:23
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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.

This version is 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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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
Changelog: 

0.6.16-1

  • Update youtube-dl-lite to 2020.05.08

Full change log can be found in GitHub.

Comments

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direc85

Tue, 2019/05/07 - 10:34

I had this issue a few times, too, but I couldn't pinpoint the reason why it did it. How did you get working?

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Skillmon

Wed, 2019/05/01 - 00:22

Thank you very much. I have just one request, can you please change the icon back to purple? There is a logic behind the colors and multimedia is purple.

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Shervrar

Wed, 2019/05/01 - 03:27

Is this because the SFOS media app is purple, or is there something else that says so? For what it's worth, I like the red. It makes sense as YT is red.

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Skillmon

Wed, 2019/05/01 - 13:31

That's a convention from the Harmattan days which was followed at least in the early days of SFOS. If you take a look at the multimedia apps in the store or on OpenRepos many of them are in fact purple, e.g. Unplayer, YTPlayer (except this fork), Daedalus, many of the podcast/radio apps. Following such conventions adds to quick operation of the phone and gives the whole OS a more uniform and coherent look.

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direc85

Mon, 2019/05/20 - 18:21

Actually the icon was only partially in SVG format, so I'm considering the old logo for the Store release.

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direc85

Sat, 2019/05/18 - 17:13

Thanks for commenting.

This indeed seems to be a trend. If it doesn't turn out hideous - it shouldn't - I'll update the icon color in the next release, which should land in Jolla Store, too.

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Skillmon

Mon, 2019/06/03 - 12:58

Thank you very much for your answer (and all the work you're putting into this!). Sorry that it took me this long to finally notice your comments. Again, thank you very much!

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carmenfdezb

Tue, 2019/04/30 - 23:07

Thanks for the update, it works perfect now

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Shervrar

Tue, 2019/04/30 - 22:26

Going on 'subscriptions' lists the channels I am subscribed to, but selecting 'latest videos' shows some random videos from channels I definitely didn't subscribe to. Any Idea how I can see my subscription feed?

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direc85

Tue, 2019/04/30 - 23:02

I *think* it shows the latest uploads in general, not your subscriptions' latest videos. I'll check the API if it provides anything useful...

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Shervrar

Sat, 2019/05/04 - 23:55

Not sure how good this would be, but if the API does not provide a way to see subscription videos anymore there is another way: RSS.

Users can export a opml file from https://www.youtube.com/subscription_manager. I guess you could make users be able to import their opml file to show subscriptions?

That would admittedly raise the complexity of the program though.

 

Also, would it be possible to make the app open videos it got as an argument? I was considering just using an external RSS app as a workaround and opening youtube links with harbour-ytplayer, but `harbor-ytplayer https://youtube.com/watch?v=1234567` does not cause the video to open in the app.

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akikk88

Tue, 2019/04/30 - 20:57

I restart phone and now works :) thanks man

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direc85

Tue, 2019/04/30 - 22:58

Good to hear!

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direc85

Tue, 2019/04/30 - 20:54

Strange, I had no issues. I'll check it out tomorrow. I'm away until then.

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akikk88

Tue, 2019/04/30 - 20:49

I install again and now app don't open

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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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