[Slackbuilds-users] straw-viewer and youtube-viewer

[Jude DaShiell]

What was in the file downloaded by sbopkg had a part of its name
.naptime. as the second part of the domain.

On Sun, 13 Sep 2020, B Watson wrote:

> Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2020 14:23:36
> From: B Watson <yalhcru at gmail.com>
> Reply-To: SlackBuilds.org Users List <slackbuilds-users at slackbuilds.org>
> To: SlackBuilds.org Users List <slackbuilds-users at slackbuilds.org>
> Subject: Re: [Slackbuilds-users] straw-viewer and youtube-viewer
>
> On 9/13/20, Jude DaShiell <jdashiel at panix.com> wrote:
> > straw-viewer has a new git clone url:
> > https://github.com/trizen/straw-viewer
>
> Huh? It's the same URL. Except mine has a slash at the end, so it
> looks like:
>
> https://github.com/trizen/straw-viewer/
>
> Works for me either way, with or without the trailing slash.
>
> It looks like there's a new release today (0.0.9) so I'll be updating
> the build anyway.
>
> > The url in the SlackBuild file fails.
>
> What URL is failing for you?
>
> > The youtube-viewer package will build but fails to run correctly any
> > longer.
>
> You have to get a google API key. The README on SBo says:
>
> *********
> Note: Google has revoked the API key formerly used by youtube-viewer. To
> use this, you'll have to create a Google account and register for an API
> key. See /usr/doc/youtube-viewer-$VERSION/README.md for instructions.
> See https://github.com/trizen/youtube-viewer/issues/308 for more
> information.
>
> If you don't like this restriction, try using straw-viewer instead.
> *********
>
> > straw-viewer is a fork of youtube-viewer and I suspect the author decided
> > to no longer support youtube-viewer.
>
> The last commit to youtube-viewer was on August 26, around 3 weeks
> ago. There have been several releases of youtube-viewer since the
> straw-viewer fork was created. It looks like the author is still
> maintaining youtube-viewer...
>
> Though I'm not maintaining the SlackBuild actively. I don't have a
> google API key and don't want one. Sooner or later, youtube-viewer
> will get handed off to someone else as maintainer, or if not, it'll
> eventually get removed from SBo... probably when Slackware 15.0 get
> released.
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