How to install pipe-viewer in Debian

pipe-viewer is a lightweight, but yet feature packed application for browsing and watching videos from YouTube.

It works by parsing the YouTube website directly, but is also able to use any Invidious instance as a fallback. This method is usually the most reliable one.

Unfortunately, pipe-viewer isn’t available in the Debian repositories, but it’s thankfully rather simple installing the application yourself.

Instructions

Start by installing the dependencies:

# apt install git libwww-perl liblwp-protocol-https-perl libdata-dump-perl libjson-perl libmodule-build-perl

Download the source code using git:

$ git clone https://github.com/trizen/pipe-viewer

Go to the directory:

$ cd pipe-viewer

And to install pipe-viewer:

$ perl Build.PL
# ./Build install

You can now use pipe-viewer.

Basic usage and some examples

You can either search for anything by parsing an argument in the shell like this:

$ pipe-viewer "<KEYWORD(S)>"

Or by starting pipe-viewer first, and then searching for whatever you’re looking for.

Example flags

There’s a lot more flags than this, to check out all of them, use the flag --help.