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1 Dependencies: | |
2 ------------- | |
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4 - C compiler. | |
5 - LibreSSL + libtls. | |
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7 | |
8 Compile | |
9 ------- | |
10 | |
11 - make | |
12 - doas make install | |
13 | |
14 | |
15 Features | |
16 -------- | |
17 | |
18 - Search videos. | |
19 - Doesn't use JavaScript. | |
20 - Doesn't use (tracking) cookies. | |
21 - CSS is optional. | |
22 - Multiple interfaces available: CGI web, CLI, gopher (gph), this is a | |
23 work-in-progress. | |
24 - Shows an Atom feed of the user/channel. | |
25 - Doesn't use or require the Google API. | |
26 - CGI interface works nice in most browsers, including text-based ones. | |
27 On OpenBSD it runs "sandboxed" and it can be compiled as a static-link… | |
28 binary with pledge(2), unveil(2) in a chroot. | |
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30 | |
31 Cons/caveats | |
32 ------------ | |
33 | |
34 - Order by upload date is incorrect (same as on Youtube). | |
35 - Some Youtube features are not supported. | |
36 - Uses scraping so might break at any point. | |
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38 | |
39 Install HTTP CGI | |
40 ---------------- | |
41 | |
42 Nginx + slowcgi example: | |
43 | |
44 location /idiotbox/css/.* { | |
45 root /home/www/domains/www.codemadness.org/htdocs/idiotb… | |
46 } | |
47 | |
48 location ~ ^/idiotbox(/|/\?.*)$ { | |
49 include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params; | |
50 fastcgi_pass unix:/run/slowcgi.sock; | |
51 fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /cgi-bin/idiotbox; | |
52 fastcgi_param SCRIPT_NAME /cgi-bin/idiotbox; | |
53 fastcgi_param REQUEST_URI /cgi-bin/idiotbox; | |
54 } | |
55 | |
56 httpd + slowcgi example: | |
57 | |
58 location "/idiotbox" { | |
59 root "/cgi-bin/idiotbox.cgi" | |
60 fastcgi | |
61 } | |
62 | |
63 | |
64 When using a chroot make sure to copy /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/ssl/cert… | |
65 | |
66 To test from the command-line you can do: | |
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68 QUERY_STRING="q=funny+cat+video" ./main | sed 1,2d | lynx -stdin |