mablin7 / ytmenu

A simple script to play music from youtube with mpd and dmenu

ytmenu

A simple script to play music from youtube with mpd and dmenu. It can search for songs, auto-generated mixes and live streams, then play them through mpd. It also keeps a history of the songs you played.

Requirements

• python 3.x
• pafy
• appdirs
• mpd
• dmenu

Usage

1. Clone the repo
2. Get a YouTube Data API key here (follow until step 3)
3. Paste your API key into the ytmenu script (API_KEY = '{YOUR_API_KEY_HERE}')
4. Make the script executable chmod +x ./ytmenu
5. (Optional) Add the script top your path
6. (Optional) Setup a keyboard shortcut with sxhkd or your window manager

Known issues

• Sometimes livestreams can't be played from history, even if they're still streaming. Perhaps they change their IDs?