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Search and select videos from a YouTube playlist using fzf to play it with mpv
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| #!/usr/bin/env bash | |
| # Require: yt-dlp, jq, mpv, curl, chafa, fzf | |
| # Description: | |
| # Enter a YouTube playlist URL (save json in /tmp/playlist_title.json) | |
| # Search and select the video titles with fzf | |
| # Play the selected video with mpv | |
| # When the video ends, open fzf again to select the next video | |
| # Author: Kelvinauta | This code was created 100% by a human | |
| trap " exit 1" SIGINT EXIT | |
| INFINITE=1 # set to 0 if you don't want to open fzf again | |
| input="$1" | |
| _help="use: $(basename "$0") <url_youtube_playlist | tmp_file.json>" | |
| [[ -z $input ]] && { echo "$_help" ; exit 1; } | |
| if [[ $input =~ ^http.*$ ]];then | |
| url=$input | |
| elif [[ -e $input ]]; then | |
| tmp_file="$input" | |
| else | |
| echo "wtf is that: ${input}" | |
| echo ${_help} | |
| exit 1 | |
| fi | |
| function _select(){ | |
| read -r -d '' _cmd_jq <<-'EOF' | |
| { jq '."{r}"' | jq '{url, title, channel, view_count, duration_string, id}'; } | |
| EOF | |
| read -r -d '' _jq_img <<-'EOF' | |
| { jq '."{r}"' | jq -r '.thumbnails.[-1].url' | xargs curl -Ls | chafa --view-size=${FZF_PREVIEW_COLUMNS}x${FZF_PREVIEW_LINES} } | |
| EOF | |
| local _preview="${_cmd_jq} <${tmp_file} | bat --language=json --color=always --style=plain; ${_jq_img} <${tmp_file}" | |
| select_title=$(jq -r 'keys[]' "$tmp_file" | fzf --preview "${_preview}" ) | |
| (( $? )) && exit 1 | |
| select_url=$(jq -r ".\"${select_title}\".url" "$tmp_file") | |
| mpv "$select_url" > /dev/null || { | |
| echo "Error with: ${select_title}" | |
| echo "mpv error when open: ${select_url}" | |
| read -n1 -rp "Quit? [y\n]: " answer | |
| [[ $answer = [Yy] ]] && exit 1 | |
| } | |
| [[ $INFINITE ]] && exec "$0" "$tmp_file" | |
| return 0 | |
| } | |
| [[ -v tmp_file ]] && _select | |
| playlist_title=$( yt-dlp --flat-playlist --playlist-items 1 --print "%(playlist_title)s" "$url" ) | |
| playlist_title=$(tr "[:upper:]" "[:lower:]" <<< ${playlist_title} | tr -s " " | tr "áéíóúñ" "aeioun" | tr -d -c '[:alnum:][:space:]' | tr " " "-" ) | |
| tmp_file="/tmp/${playlist_title}.json" | |
| [[ ! -e $tmp_file ]] && yt-dlp -j --flat-playlist "$url" | jq -s . | jq 'INDEX(.title)' > "$tmp_file" | |
| _select |
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