WSchnee / ytfzf

A posix script to find and watch youtube videos from the terminal. (Without API)

A POSIX script that helps you find Youtube videos (without API) and opens/downloads them using mpv/youtube-dl

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This is a little showcase

Fast installation

This one-line installation does not support every OS, detail information for different OS can be found in the here

curl -sL "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pystardust/ytfzf/master/ytfzf" | sudo tee /usr/bin/ytfzf >/dev/null && sudo chmod 755 /usr/bin/ytfzf

^{*requires cURL}

Table of Contents

• Dependencies
• Installation
• Usage Instruction
• Configurations
• Subscriptions
• Update Log
• Examples
• Todo
• Bugs

Features

• Subscriptions
• Thumbnails
• History
• Download
• Format selection
• Queue multiple videos

Update-Log

• Better format selection
• Import subscriptions from a google account
• Flag for autogenerated subtitles
• Colorful video menu
• Option to use lower quality thumbnails
• Notifications
• We have now added Subscriptions which allows you to search between videos of subscribed channels easily
• Now ytfzf can queue videos using fzf multiselect option. Press tab to select a video. All the videos will be lined up in mpv. Use > and < to traverse them.
• Make continuous queries with -s
• You can preview video thumbnails now! Using Ueberzug. Inspired by fontpreview-ueberzug.
• Stdin can be taken by using ytfzf -, for both fzf and external menu.
• Added MacOS support

Examples

• Search with Thumbnails

  Find and watch videos with thumbnail previews

  ytfzf -t <query>
  

  Show all subscriptions with thumbnails (latest 10)

  ytfzf -St
  

• You can use multiple options together, here are some examples

  • Stream audio (music), and prompt as the music finishes

    ytfzf -ml <query>
    

  • Download a video from your history

    ytfzf -dH
    

  • Open using external menu in a certain format

    ytfzf -fD
    

• If you started watching a video and you wish to change format then first hit Q to save position and quit mpv, then choose your format using

  ytfzf -faH
  

Todo

• Playlists
• More sites
• Subscriptions
• Thumbnails

Bugs

• dwm with swallow patch: Images don't render when looped (ie, option -l)

• If thumbnails are not working .Xauthority might be causing it. Try deleting .Xauthority and relogging.