The popularity of YouTube It is so great that we are facing a service that crossed the borders of computers and is available on all types of platforms, and although it goes without saying that the main use of this tool is online, the truth is that there are not a few who Sometimes they would like to be able to search and save a video to view it later in time and without the need to be connected to the network to do so.
All this is what it offers us YouTube Viewer, an application based on Perl that allows us to search for videos on YouTube and play or download them to our team. It's found available from the command line or through a GTK2 interface So while it is not the most modern that we can find in Linux, it more than meets its objective and still has a lot to offer (and if not let's look at the fabulous desktop MATE).
In any case, we have the possibility of carrying out advanced searches, navigate between YouTube categories (Music, Trends, Sports, Videogames, Technology, Cinema, News, etc), see our favorites or our subscriptions, and once we enter any video we can see all the information related to it (number of views, channel to which it belongs , votes received, see the comments and publish ours). At the time of reproduction we have the possibility of doing it through external players such as VLC, SMPlayer, Mplayer and several others, and in case it is still not clear at this point to say that we can log in to our YouTube account to access our favorites or save a video there, subscribe to a channel, etc.
Website: YouTube Viewer