https://flavio.tordini.org/minitube-3-5-and-musictube-1-13 from aug. 2020 says >= 3.5 uses the Invidious API, thus key is no longer required; I can indeed watch videos just fine without providing anything.
Whether there is any particular feature still requiring a personal google account/API key and/or using YouTube's v3 instead. 3.9.3 sources having src/yt3.cpp dealing with the environment variable is all I can see/test. Until today I thought minitube was unusable without a google account due to this, then I saw it working on some Linux distro out of the box and went looking. Here's a cheap attempt at lifting the "requirement" bits without removing instructions I don't know enough about. Thoughts? Index: Makefile =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/ports/www/minitube/Makefile,v diff -u -p -r1.74 Makefile --- Makefile 27 Sep 2023 19:13:03 -0000 1.74 +++ Makefile 23 Nov 2023 03:36:09 -0000 @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ COMMENT = standalone YouTube.com video b V = 3.9.3 DISTNAME = minitube-$V -REVISION = 1 +REVISION = 2 EXTRACT_SUFX = .tar.bz2 CATEGORIES = www multimedia Index: pkg/README =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/ports/www/minitube/pkg/README,v diff -u -p -r1.7 README --- pkg/README 11 Mar 2022 20:10:06 -0000 1.7 +++ pkg/README 23 Nov 2023 03:53:19 -0000 @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Google API key ============== -An API key is required in order to access the YouTube Data web services. +A personal API key can be used to access the YouTube Data web services. Go to https://console.developers.google.com/
