Hi Karen, Yes. Put the following three lines into a script file, e.g. ytlisten url=$(cat url.txt) yt-dlp -q --no-part --extract-audio --audio-format wav -omyaudio $url mplayer myaudio*wav Make sure to chmod 755 ytlisten, copy your youtube url into url.txt and run ytlisten. This creates a wav file and plays it with mplayer Wav files are big, so if you want to keep the audio around for later, I suggest you convert the wav file to mp3 with lame. e.g. lame -m s myaudio*wav -o myaudio.mp3 rm myaudio*wav On Fri, Jan 31, 2025 at 03:54:27AM -0500, Karen Lewellen wrote: > Hi Rudy, > Does that include specific YouTube links? > For example, I *very* often get a YouTube link sent via a discussion. > Even better, say I am reading an article at rolling stone, something I can > do quite well with lynx. there is a YouTube link in the article, and so > forth. > Can you, as you indicate, scrape and play those? > Thanks, > Karen > > > -- Rudy Vener Beast Hunt Vol 1, containing my short story Dragon Wing, is loose in the wild: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DPN1QGGJ Latest Limerick - California Pipe Dreaming Of Secession https://limerickdude.substack.com/p/california-pipe-dreaming-of-secession Website: http://www.rudyvener.com To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to blinux-list+unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxx.