partytube

An Internet Video Jukebox

Description

Partytube is a command-line program that lets people send internet video URLs to be queued up and played, kinda like a jukebox for internet video! URLs are sent as simple plain text over a TCP connection, using a tool like netcat.

Features

• fully concurrent utilizing Go's "goroutines"
• video fetching + playback done by mpv and youtube-dl

Dependencies

• a working Go installation (for building)
• mpv
• youtube-dl

Installation

To fetch, build, and install the binary into your $GOPATH, run:

$ go get github.com/oatberry/partytube

Alternatively, an Arch Linux PKGBUILD is available in the Arch User Repository: partytube-git

Usage

1. Run the partytube binary
2. Connect to partytube using a program like netcat, for example:

   $ nc <ip-address> 2338

3. Send a video link!

   partytube > https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ

Todo

• enable configuration of things like the port being listened on
• add the ability for users to vote to stop the current video
• web interface for video submission

License - GPL3

Copyright © 2018 Thomas Berryhill oats@oatberry.me

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.