made it so i just click file and paste YouTube url

Linux is amazing

#! /usr/bin/bash
echo "Enter a url"
read a

yt-dlp -x $a
  • BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    3 hours ago

    That’s great! Here’s a few tips to take it a bit further; the world is your oyster!

    Open your .bashrc file (e.g. /home/yourusername/.bashrc) and add the following:

    alias get="/path/to/your/bash/file"

    Now open a terminal and type get, and it’ll launch the script. No clicking needed, it’ll run anytime from any terminal!

    And if you do use the alias then you can use another refinement, you can drop the echo: instead of $a, you can use $1 and remove the echo & read as you no longer need them:

    #! /usr/bin/bash yt-dlp -x $1

    Now for example you can type in a terminal:

    get http://url.to.video/

    And yt-dlp will do it’s stuff. $1 passes the first parameter after starting the script as a variable to it.

    You can use the keyboard shortcut Control+shift+v to paste a URL into the terminal, no mouse needed; just remember to add a space after typing get

    • 0t79JeIfK01RHyzo@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      2 hours ago

      What does your ~/.bashrc look like? My last change was modifying a playlist command

      spoiler: I explain my last change to my ~/.bashrc file 
      playlist https://www.youtube.com/@YouTube/videos

      or

      playlist /home/username/Videos

      or just from any directory with files

      playlist

      And then takes all the videos found at the url or at the path (including within folders), adds them to a playlist, shuffles them, and plays them from mpv.

      playlist() {
        param=""

        # If the first parameter has a length more than 1 character
        if [ ${#1} -gt 1 ]; then
                param="${@}"
        else
                param="."
        fi

        screen mpv $param --shuffle --ytdl-raw-options-add=cookies-from-browser=firefox --loop-playlist=inf --no-keepaspect-window --no-auto-window-resize
}
      other functions and aliases in my ~/.bashrc 
      alias code=codium
alias files=nautilus
alias explorer=nautilus
alias rust="/path/to/.cargo/bin/evcxr"
alias sniffnet="export ICED_BACKEND=tiny-skia; /path/to/.cargo/bin/sniffnet"
alias http-server='/path/to/.cargo/bin/miniserve'
alias iphone='uxplay'
alias airplay='uxplay'
alias watch='screen mpv --ytdl-raw-options-add=remote-components=ejs:github --ytdl-raw-options-add=cookies-from-browser=firefox --no-keepaspect-window '
alias twitch='watch'
alias timeshift-launcher="pkexec env WAYLAND_DISPLAY='$WAYLAND_DISPLAY' XDG_RUNTIME_DIR='$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR' /usr/bin/timeshift-launcher"
alias update="sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y && sudo flatpak update -y && sudo snap refresh"
alias resize="path/to/resize/videos/resize.sh"

playlist() {
        param=""

        # If the first parameter has a length more than 1 character
        if [ ${#1} -gt 1 ]; then
                param="${@}"
        else
                param="."
        fi

        screen mpv $param --shuffle --ytdl-raw-options-add=cookies-from-browser=firefox --loop-playlist=inf --no-keepaspect-window --no-auto-window-resize
}

gif() { ffmpeg -i $1 -f yuv4mpegpipe - | gifski -o $2 ${@:3} -;}