YTPlayer

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Unofficial YouTube client for Sailfish OS!

Two very important notices!

1) You must provide youtube-client-id.json and youtube-data-api-v3.key files in your Downloads folder in order to use the application. You will have to generate them yourself, and sadly It is a thing and a half to do, but you can follow this guide to generate and download the files. This may have implications to your Google account, so do this at your own risk. Once YTPlayer has started without complaining about the missing keys or files, you can delete the files from the Download folder.

2) Google restricts YouTube Data API v3 usage. I was greeted with the following message in the YTPlayer log: "We're sorry, but your computer or network may ben sending automated queries. To protect our users, we can't process your request right now." That happened to my keys during developement, I'll have to wait and see it they work after a few days of waiting.

This all means that I will soon halt developing YTPlayer, and will only provide builds of the application for new SFOS versions. Old SFOS versions are no longer supported after 0.6.18 release.

Known limitations:

  • Google restricts YouTube Data API v3 usage
  • 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!

Screenshots: 
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-0.6.15-1.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
File harbour-ytplayer-0.6.18-1.aarch64.rpm302.73 KB27/07/2021 - 21:43
File harbour-ytplayer-0.6.18-1.armv7hl.rpm293.71 KB27/07/2021 - 21:43
File harbour-ytplayer-0.6.18-1.i486.rpm327.82 KB27/07/2021 - 21:43
Changelog: 

0.6.18-1

  • Added (restore) youtube-dl update functionality in Settings
  • Read youtube-client-id.json and youtube-data-api-v3.key from Downloads
  • Improve error reporting a bit

Full change log can be found in GitHub.