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/
 

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