#!/bin/bash # dependencies: mpv youtube-dl fzf rofi/dmenu # search videos and playlists on youtube and play them in mpv, without an API # usage: # yt asks for input in stdin, prompts using fzf # yt search query takes input from the passed arg, prompts using fzf # yt -r takes input and prompts using rofi ($guicmd) defcmd="fzf" guicmd="wofi -d -i" #uncomment next line for dmenu #guicmd="dmenu -i -l 15" promptcmd="$defcmd" if [ -z "$*" ]; then echo -n "Search: " read -r query else case "$1" in -r) query=$(echo | $guicmd -p "Search: ") promptcmd="$guicmd -p Video:";; *) query="$*";; esac fi if [ -z "$query" ]; then exit; fi # sanitise the query query=$(sed \ -e 's|+|%2B|g'\ -e 's|#|%23|g'\ -e 's|&|%26|g'\ -e 's| |+|g'\ <<< "$query") # fetch the results with the $query and # delete all escaped characters response="$(curl -s "https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=$query" |\ sed 's|\\.||g')" # if unable to fetch the youtube results page, inform and exit if ! grep -q "script" <<< "$response"; then echo "unable to fetch yt"; exit 1; fi # regex expression to match video and playlist entries from yt result page vgrep='"videoRenderer":{"videoId":"\K.{11}".+?"text":".+?[^\\](?=")' pgrep='"playlistRenderer":{"playlistId":"\K.{34}?","title":{"simpleText":".+?[^\"](?=")' # grep the id and title # return them in format id (type) title getresults() { grep -oP "$1" <<< "$response" |\ awk -F\" -v p="$2" '{ print $1 "\t" p " " $NF}' } # get the list of videos/playlists and their ids in videoids and playlistids videoids=$(getresults "$vgrep") playlistids=$(getresults "$pgrep" "(playlist)") # if there are playlists or videos, append them to list [ -n "$playlistids" ] && ids="$playlistids\n" [ -n "$videoids" ] && ids="$ids$videoids" # url prefix for videos and playlists videolink="https://youtu.be/" playlink="https://youtube.com/playlist?list=" # prompt the results to user infinitely until they exit (escape) while true; do clear echo "Choose Video/Playlist to play: " choice=$(echo -e "$ids" | cut -d' ' -f2 | $promptcmd) # dont show id if [ -z "$choice" ]; then exit; fi # if esc-ed then exit id=$(echo -e "$ids" | grep -Fwm1 "$choice" | cut -d' ' -f1) # get id of choice echo -e "$choice\t($id)" case $id in # 11 digit id = video ???????????) mpv "$videolink$id";; # 34 digit id = playlist ??????????????????????????????????) mpv "$playlink$id";; *) exit ;; esac done