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I've been rebuilding my command line YT client based on mpv, fzf, and yt-dlp (compatible with youtube-dl in all the ways that matter). Here's my search command:

I've been rebuilding my command line YT client based on mpv, fzf, and yt-dlp (compatible with youtube-dl in all the ways that matter). Here's my search command: ytsearch ======== #! /bin/bash nresults=$1; shift query="$@" yt-dlp -j ytsearch${nresults}:"${query// /+}" This will give back my results as JSON, which I can save to a file or pipe to `ytplaylist`: ytplaylist ========== #! /bin/bash jq -r '"\(.upload_date) \(.id) \(.duration)\t\(.title)"' "$@" \ | sort | uniq \ | fzf --bind "enter:execute(ytplay {+2})" Note that, because of the layout of the lines, records get sorted based first on date. Streaming is done via mpv: ytplay ====== #! /bin/bash id=$1; shift mpv "ytdl://$id" --ytdl-format='best[height<=720]' "$@" Finally, since I often don't care about saving results, wanting instead to just view the playlist, yt == ytsearch "$@" | ytplaylist So, if I want to search for videos on butchering cows, I might do $ yt 5 butcher cow as a preliminary to make sure I'm getting the sorts of results I want, then do $ yt 50 butcher cow and get myself a beer. I could also save the results $ ytsearch 50 butcher cow > deadbeef.json and view the results at my leisure with $ ytplaylist deadbeef.json `deadbeef.json` will have extensive metadata for each video found, including a channel URL. Suppose with a bit of jq I find the URL for a really good channel; I can then $ yt-dlp -j $CHANNEL_URL > cool-channel.json to get a playlist for the entire channel, then operate on it like the results coming back from `ytsearch`. Happy Friday.

kmstout 4y ago
For anyone who finds this, here's a much faster ytsearch: ytsearch ======== #! /bin/bash nresults=$1; shift query="$@" yt-dlp -j --flat-playlist ytsearch${nresults}:"${query// /+}" I now also have ytgetlist ========= #! /bin/bash yt-dlp -j --flat-playlist "$@" which is handy for listing entire channels. The downside of using --flat-playlist is that the upload_date ends up null, so `ytplaylist` is modified to cope: ytplaylist ========== #! /bin/bash jq -r '"\(.upload_date // .playlist_index) \(.id) \(.duration)\t\(.title)"' "$@" \ | sort -k1n | uniq \ | fzf --bind "enter:execute(ytplay {+2})" The playlist indices so far reflect the order one would get by sorting on upload date.

kmstout 4y ago

For anyone who finds this, here's a much faster ytsearch: ytsearch ======== #! /bin/bash nresults=$1; shift query="$@" yt-dlp -j --flat-playlist ytsearch${nresults}:"${query// /+}" I now also have ytgetlist ========= #! /bin/bash yt-dlp -j --flat-playlist "$@" which is handy for listing entire channels. The downside of using --flat-playlist is that the upload_date ends up null, so `ytplaylist` is modified to cope: ytplaylist ========== #! /bin/bash jq -r '"\(.upload_date // .playlist_index) \(.id) \(.duration)\t\(.title)"' "$@" \ | sort -k1n | uniq \ | fzf --bind "enter:execute(ytplay {+2})" The playlist indices so far reflect the order one would get by sorting on upload date.