README - frontends - front-ends for some sites (experiment) (DIR) Log (DIR) Files (DIR) Refs (DIR) README (DIR) LICENSE --- README (1488B) --- 1 Dependencies: 2 ------------- 3 4 - C compiler. 5 - LibreSSL + libtls. 6 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-linked 28 binary with pledge(2), unveil(2) in a chroot. 29 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. 37 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/idiotbox/css; 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.pem. 65 66 To test from the command-line you can do: 67 68 QUERY_STRING="q=funny+cat+video" ./main | sed 1,2d | lynx -stdin