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subs 
Have a feed of your YouTube subscriptions.
Select a choice and with dmenu and view with mpv.
About
I'm a fan of command line and "doing things yourself". I also don't like having a Google account, but still want to keep track of subscriptions. Thus subs was born.
Environment
Create your $SUBS_FILE, as described below, and export this var its path.
Next set your $SUBS_MENU_PROG if desired, by default the menu will be dmenu -p Subs:.
Usage
First generate the links to the XML feeds of your subscriptions via subs -g.
Once this has completed, this needn't be done again unless you update your $SUBS_FILE.
Next, update your subs cache via subs -u. This will fetch any
changes from the feeds and store it back into the cache locally.
This way the cache only is updated when you choose to, rather than
redownloading them all every run.
Subs File
The $SUBS_FILE file is a normal text file containing usernames of your subscriptions.
These can be the username or the channel IDs.
Comments and blank lines are ignored.
Here is a short example:
# Travel
UCXulruMI7BHj3kGyosNa0jA # Indigo Traveller
cmbroad44 # Abroad in Japan
# Misc
UCimiUgDLbi6P17BdaCZpVbg # exurb1a
Vsauce # Vsauce
UCF9cNYdVSYS_oha1eGzDTGQ # Goniloc
As you can see, some of these are usernames and some are channel IDs -- either work just fine.
Safety
Every commit is shellchecked with travis with no cases ignored.