Re: [orca-list] youtube-viewer login question

[Jude DaShiell <jdashiel panix com>]

Yes, and I even tried wrapping the whole line except for the lynx 
command with single and then double quotes.

On Tue, 27 Feb 2018, Janina Sajka wrote:

> Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2018 09:04:55
> From: Janina Sajka <janina rednote net>
> To: Jude DaShiell <jdashiel panix com>
> Cc: orca-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: [orca-list] youtube-viewer login question
>
> Have you tried escaping the special chars with backslash?
>
> e.g. a cologn as \:
>
>
> Jude DaShiell writes:
> > user:passwd@url syntax doesn't work with google in my case at least but then
> > again I have a pretty creative password with special characters in it.  For
> > that reason, it won't work on youtube either.
> >
> > On Tue, 27 Feb 2018, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> >
> > > Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2018 08:33:21
> > > From: Jude DaShiell <jdashiel panix com>
> > > To: Janina Sajka <janina rednote net>
> > > Cc: orca-list gnome org
> > > Subject: Re: [orca-list] youtube-viewer login question
> > >
> > > I must not be explaining myself clearly.  Once inside of youtube-viewer
> > > and you have to be inside of youtube-viewer to login to youtube so
> > > already subscribed channels are shown to you you run the :login command.
> > > You are given a unique url that's different each time generated and that
> > > url takes you to a google authorization code page.  You log in on the
> > > google authorization page and you authorize youtube-viewer to do things
> > > with your youtube account.  Once done you get a google authorization
> > > code that you need to copy and then leave the google authorization page
> > > and you need to paste that code into the youtube-viewer code box and
> > > then finish the process on youtube-viewer. You use that code on
> > > youtube-viewer until inside youtube-viewer you run the :logout command
> > > which removes the code from youtube-viewer.  Thanks for the login
> > > password url, I'll have a read through this since I expect it will be
> > > helpful with other applications.
> > >
> > > On Tue, 27 Feb 2018, Janina Sajka wrote:
> > >
> > > >  Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2018 08:21:21
> > > >  From: Janina Sajka <janina rednote net>
> > > >  To: Jude DaShiell <jdashiel panix com>
> > > >  Cc: orca-list gnome org
> > > >  Subject: Re: [orca-list] youtube-viewer login question
> > > >
> > > >  Jude:
> > > >
> > > >  I can't quite figure out what you're asking. But, if you're wanting to
> > > >  pass login and password from the command line, there's a standard http
> > > >  syntax for that. Perhaps this might meet your needs? It works like this:
> > > >
> > > >  http://login:passwd@url
> > > >
> > > >  Example:
> > > >
> > > >  https://janina:password youtube com/blah/blah
> > > >
> > > >  hth
> > > >
> > > >  Janina
> > > >
> > > >  Jude DaShiell writes:
> > > > >  Is it possible using only a keyboard to run youtube-viewer and run the
> > > > > : login command inside youtube-viewer and then successfully complete the
> > > > >  login with say firefox or chromium or google-chrome-stable?
> > > > >  You get an url that needs to be opened with a browser and best quote it
> > > > >  otherwise the shell  will freak out before having a browser open it.
> > > > >  Probably best to background youtube-viewer and once firefox has url
> > > > >  opened,
> > > > >  you're going to be asked for google login credentials then you get asked
> > > > >  if
> > > > >  youtube-viewer can be allowed to do things on your account.  Once allow
> > > > >  is
> > > > >  selected, a 45 character code is shown which needs to be copied into a
> > > > >  clipboard then the browser can be closed and youtube-viewer foregrounded
> > > > >  again then paste that 45 character code into the code box on
> > > > >  youtube-viewer
> > > > >  and I suppose hit the login button.  Youtube-viewer then gets a token
> > > > >  back
> > > > >  from google and until you run the :logout command you are using that
> > > > >  token
> > > > >  and have youtube-viewer logged in.
> > > > >  I am not using a mouse over here (fine motor deficit) so would like to
> > > > >  know
> > > > >  if anyone else did all of this with a keyboard yet and if not, how can it
> > > > >  be
> > > > >  done?
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
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