#YTQ = YouTube Queue
Turn your Macbook into a YouTube jukebox server
You have to have youtube-dl installed on your machine brew install youtube-dl, as well as ffmpeg brew install ffmpeg. Note: youtube-dl uses an unpublished youtube api, which changes without warning. Typically this results in the youtube-dl maintainers providing updates, which you can install with brew upgrade youtube-dl
Install and have redis running brew install redis and follow instructions for running it as a service
Verified with ruby 1.9.3 up through 2.5.1 and other versions are likely ok too
Designed for and tested on Macbook. Modification to use on other systems is likely possible
Clone this repo git clone https://github.com/groddeck/ytq
From the cloned repo (cd ytq) first bundle install and then run foreman start
This will start up your YouTube Queue Server on port 5300
To make sure it's running, browse to localhost:5300 from your machine, and you should see the search form.
You can invoke resque-web to inspect the queue of audio to be played, check for errors and see other stats.
Your machine has to be visible to other machines on a network to enqueue selections from them. A handy tool is localtunnel which can open a reverse proxy to your machine that will be accessible outside your network.
From a browser, make a request to your-ip:5300
Enter a search term to find a youtube video to play and submit the form.
The result should be a list of matches for your search term. Click to add a selection to the queue for playback.
The YouTube video will be downloaded, ripped to MP3, and played on the system audio output of the host machine running the YTQ server.
From a browser, or with curl on the command line, make a request to your-ip:5300/play/youtube_id - where youtube_id is the part of a youtube video URL after the ?v= parameter, e.g.: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asdf - "asdf" is the youtube_id.
In a multi-user scenario, if you want to identify the person who has made a selection, add the ?who=name parameter to the end of the request URL and that information will be visible in the queue viewer.