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Stream audio from youtube

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I just want to stream (whitout downloading) a youtube video.
Is there an easy way to do this with python or exists a script to do that?
Or i must download in a temporany file the video, convert it and play?

python youtube streaming

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  I imagine it would be tricky because Youtube is flash... however, there are some online services that let you convert the video into audio... have you thought about that? My favorite is keepvid.com
  
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2

1

I just want to stream (whitout downloading) a youtube video.
Is there an easy way to do this with python or exists a script to do that?
Or i must download in a temporany file the video, convert it and play?

python youtube streaming

share|improve this question

asked Sep 1 '14 at 22:32

Wet WaterWet Water

13115

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  I imagine it would be tricky because Youtube is flash... however, there are some online services that let you convert the video into audio... have you thought about that? My favorite is keepvid.com
  
  – ilarsona
  Sep 1 '14 at 22:33
  

  
  
  
  

add a comment | 

I just want to stream (whitout downloading) a youtube video.
Is there an easy way to do this with python or exists a script to do that?
Or i must download in a temporany file the video, convert it and play?

python youtube streaming

share|improve this question

asked Sep 1 '14 at 22:32

Wet WaterWet Water

13115

share|improve this question

asked Sep 1 '14 at 22:32

Wet WaterWet Water

13115

share|improve this question

asked Sep 1 '14 at 22:32

Wet WaterWet Water

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asked Sep 1 '14 at 22:32

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pafy is a Python library that can be used to retrieve URLs to pass to VLC or mplayer, etc. You can specify audio only. It's well documented here and can be installed with sudo apt-get install python-pafy.

Note it comes with a command line tool called ytdl which seems similar to youtube-dl and, as such, won't really do what you want. You'll have to write some python. I assume by the nature of your question this is no problem, but let me know if you need further help.

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answered Sep 1 '14 at 23:28

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  This is so cool, just one file which do what i want. Thank you! :)
  
  – Wet Water
  Sep 2 '14 at 12:29
  

  
  
  
  

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If you have vlc and the text-based browser lynx (both available from Ubuntu's repositories), there is a neat trick you can use to stream video from a commandline. The command I use will do a search and create a playlist of the first page of results which will play in vlc.

I created a simple script to handle the tricky syntax. The script is:

#!/bin/bash

lynx -dump "https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query="$1"" | egrep -o "http.*watch.*" | vlc -

So, if you name the script, say stream_youtube, you can just enter "stream_youtube "search term"

I just tried it out after not using it in a while, and noticed a couple of errors popping up in a window that I never saw before, but in spite of that annoyance, it still worked. Someone might find it useful, or at least interesting. :-)

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answered Sep 1 '14 at 23:35

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This is not the perfect solution for your problem, but it will maybe help you.

youtube-dl

There is a command line tool called youtube-dl, which offers many options. I think it will first download the full video and then convert to audio. I'm not sure whether there is a possibility to only download an audio stream, but I guess not. Also, youtube-dl is written in python, but it's not only a simple script.

If you take a look at the manpage, look for the post-processing options. --extract-audio for example will convert the video file to an audio file. You can also set the --audio-format and the --audio-quality. You can also run any custom command after downloading with --exec CMD.

• 
  Get it from the Ubuntu Software Center: sudo apt install youtube-dl
  


• 
  Get it from Github: Then update it with sudo youtube-dl -U
  

VLC steaming

Alternatively, you can use VLC to stream the video and just ignore or turn off the video function.

It should work to copy the url, open vlc and press CTRL+V or open a network steam (CTRL+N) and paste the url. Then click on Video->Videotrack->deactivate.

Note that this will still stream the whole video, but it will not display it.

share|improve this answer

edited 11 mins ago

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answered Sep 1 '14 at 22:56

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  A useful alias: alias youtube-dl-audio='youtube-dl --ignore-errors --output "%(title)s.%(ext)s" --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0'
  
  – Pablo Bianchi
  12 mins ago
  

  
  
  
  

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pafy is a Python library that can be used to retrieve URLs to pass to VLC or mplayer, etc. You can specify audio only. It's well documented here and can be installed with sudo apt-get install python-pafy.

Note it comes with a command line tool called ytdl which seems similar to youtube-dl and, as such, won't really do what you want. You'll have to write some python. I assume by the nature of your question this is no problem, but let me know if you need further help.

share|improve this answer

answered Sep 1 '14 at 23:28

wxlwxl

438218

• 
  
  
  

  
  1
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  This is so cool, just one file which do what i want. Thank you! :)
  
  – Wet Water
  Sep 2 '14 at 12:29
  

  
  
  
  

add a comment | 

4

pafy is a Python library that can be used to retrieve URLs to pass to VLC or mplayer, etc. You can specify audio only. It's well documented here and can be installed with sudo apt-get install python-pafy.

Note it comes with a command line tool called ytdl which seems similar to youtube-dl and, as such, won't really do what you want. You'll have to write some python. I assume by the nature of your question this is no problem, but let me know if you need further help.

share|improve this answer

answered Sep 1 '14 at 23:28

wxlwxl

438218

• 
  
  
  

  
  1
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  This is so cool, just one file which do what i want. Thank you! :)
  
  – Wet Water
  Sep 2 '14 at 12:29
  

  
  
  
  

add a comment | 

pafy is a Python library that can be used to retrieve URLs to pass to VLC or mplayer, etc. You can specify audio only. It's well documented here and can be installed with sudo apt-get install python-pafy.

Note it comes with a command line tool called ytdl which seems similar to youtube-dl and, as such, won't really do what you want. You'll have to write some python. I assume by the nature of your question this is no problem, but let me know if you need further help.

share|improve this answer

answered Sep 1 '14 at 23:28

wxlwxl

438218

share|improve this answer

answered Sep 1 '14 at 23:28

wxlwxl

438218

answered Sep 1 '14 at 23:28

wxlwxl

438218

answered Sep 1 '14 at 23:28

wxlwxl

438218

2

If you have vlc and the text-based browser lynx (both available from Ubuntu's repositories), there is a neat trick you can use to stream video from a commandline. The command I use will do a search and create a playlist of the first page of results which will play in vlc.

I created a simple script to handle the tricky syntax. The script is:

#!/bin/bash

lynx -dump "https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query="$1"" | egrep -o "http.*watch.*" | vlc -

So, if you name the script, say stream_youtube, you can just enter "stream_youtube "search term"

I just tried it out after not using it in a while, and noticed a couple of errors popping up in a window that I never saw before, but in spite of that annoyance, it still worked. Someone might find it useful, or at least interesting. :-)

share|improve this answer

answered Sep 1 '14 at 23:35

Marty FriedMarty Fried

13.7k53947

add a comment | 

2

If you have vlc and the text-based browser lynx (both available from Ubuntu's repositories), there is a neat trick you can use to stream video from a commandline. The command I use will do a search and create a playlist of the first page of results which will play in vlc.

I created a simple script to handle the tricky syntax. The script is:

#!/bin/bash

lynx -dump "https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query="$1"" | egrep -o "http.*watch.*" | vlc -

So, if you name the script, say stream_youtube, you can just enter "stream_youtube "search term"

I just tried it out after not using it in a while, and noticed a couple of errors popping up in a window that I never saw before, but in spite of that annoyance, it still worked. Someone might find it useful, or at least interesting. :-)

share|improve this answer

answered Sep 1 '14 at 23:35

Marty FriedMarty Fried

13.7k53947

add a comment | 

If you have vlc and the text-based browser lynx (both available from Ubuntu's repositories), there is a neat trick you can use to stream video from a commandline. The command I use will do a search and create a playlist of the first page of results which will play in vlc.

I created a simple script to handle the tricky syntax. The script is:

#!/bin/bash

lynx -dump "https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query="$1"" | egrep -o "http.*watch.*" | vlc -

So, if you name the script, say stream_youtube, you can just enter "stream_youtube "search term"

I just tried it out after not using it in a while, and noticed a couple of errors popping up in a window that I never saw before, but in spite of that annoyance, it still worked. Someone might find it useful, or at least interesting. :-)

share|improve this answer

answered Sep 1 '14 at 23:35

Marty FriedMarty Fried

13.7k53947

#!/bin/bash

lynx -dump "https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query="$1"" | egrep -o "http.*watch.*" | vlc -

share|improve this answer

answered Sep 1 '14 at 23:35

Marty FriedMarty Fried

13.7k53947

answered Sep 1 '14 at 23:35

Marty FriedMarty Fried

13.7k53947

answered Sep 1 '14 at 23:35

Marty FriedMarty Fried

13.7k53947

2

This is not the perfect solution for your problem, but it will maybe help you.

youtube-dl

There is a command line tool called youtube-dl, which offers many options. I think it will first download the full video and then convert to audio. I'm not sure whether there is a possibility to only download an audio stream, but I guess not. Also, youtube-dl is written in python, but it's not only a simple script.

If you take a look at the manpage, look for the post-processing options. --extract-audio for example will convert the video file to an audio file. You can also set the --audio-format and the --audio-quality. You can also run any custom command after downloading with --exec CMD.

• 
  Get it from the Ubuntu Software Center: sudo apt install youtube-dl
  


• 
  Get it from Github: Then update it with sudo youtube-dl -U
  

VLC steaming

Alternatively, you can use VLC to stream the video and just ignore or turn off the video function.

It should work to copy the url, open vlc and press CTRL+V or open a network steam (CTRL+N) and paste the url. Then click on Video->Videotrack->deactivate.

Note that this will still stream the whole video, but it will not display it.

share|improve this answer

edited 11 mins ago

Pablo Bianchi

2,89521535

answered Sep 1 '14 at 22:56

verpfeiltverpfeilt

1,38421841

• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  A useful alias: alias youtube-dl-audio='youtube-dl --ignore-errors --output "%(title)s.%(ext)s" --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0'
  
  – Pablo Bianchi
  12 mins ago
  

  
  
  
  

add a comment | 

2

This is not the perfect solution for your problem, but it will maybe help you.

youtube-dl

There is a command line tool called youtube-dl, which offers many options. I think it will first download the full video and then convert to audio. I'm not sure whether there is a possibility to only download an audio stream, but I guess not. Also, youtube-dl is written in python, but it's not only a simple script.

If you take a look at the manpage, look for the post-processing options. --extract-audio for example will convert the video file to an audio file. You can also set the --audio-format and the --audio-quality. You can also run any custom command after downloading with --exec CMD.

• 
  Get it from the Ubuntu Software Center: sudo apt install youtube-dl
  


• 
  Get it from Github: Then update it with sudo youtube-dl -U
  

VLC steaming

Alternatively, you can use VLC to stream the video and just ignore or turn off the video function.

It should work to copy the url, open vlc and press CTRL+V or open a network steam (CTRL+N) and paste the url. Then click on Video->Videotrack->deactivate.

Note that this will still stream the whole video, but it will not display it.

share|improve this answer

edited 11 mins ago

Pablo Bianchi

2,89521535

answered Sep 1 '14 at 22:56

verpfeiltverpfeilt

1,38421841

• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  A useful alias: alias youtube-dl-audio='youtube-dl --ignore-errors --output "%(title)s.%(ext)s" --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0'
  
  – Pablo Bianchi
  12 mins ago
  

  
  
  
  

add a comment | 

This is not the perfect solution for your problem, but it will maybe help you.

youtube-dl

There is a command line tool called youtube-dl, which offers many options. I think it will first download the full video and then convert to audio. I'm not sure whether there is a possibility to only download an audio stream, but I guess not. Also, youtube-dl is written in python, but it's not only a simple script.

If you take a look at the manpage, look for the post-processing options. --extract-audio for example will convert the video file to an audio file. You can also set the --audio-format and the --audio-quality. You can also run any custom command after downloading with --exec CMD.

• 
  Get it from the Ubuntu Software Center: sudo apt install youtube-dl
  


• 
  Get it from Github: Then update it with sudo youtube-dl -U
  

VLC steaming

Alternatively, you can use VLC to stream the video and just ignore or turn off the video function.

It should work to copy the url, open vlc and press CTRL+V or open a network steam (CTRL+N) and paste the url. Then click on Video->Videotrack->deactivate.

Note that this will still stream the whole video, but it will not display it.

share|improve this answer

edited 11 mins ago

Pablo Bianchi

2,89521535

answered Sep 1 '14 at 22:56

verpfeiltverpfeilt

1,38421841

share|improve this answer

edited 11 mins ago

Pablo Bianchi

2,89521535

answered Sep 1 '14 at 22:56

verpfeiltverpfeilt

1,38421841

edited 11 mins ago

Pablo Bianchi

2,89521535

edited 11 mins ago

Pablo Bianchi

2,89521535

answered Sep 1 '14 at 22:56

verpfeiltverpfeilt

1,38421841

answered Sep 1 '14 at 22:56

verpfeiltverpfeilt

1,38421841