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
It’s a slippery slope. Soon you’ll be using Vim and ordering thighsocks on the Internet.
Here is a script I wrote:
~/bin 0s > cat vget #!/usr/bin/env fish yt-dlp --embed-metadata --write-subs --embed-subs --write-thumbnail --prefer-free-formats -f "[height<=1080]" $argvGuess we’re sharing scripts now. I have a script that downloads playlists as MP3s and keep an archive.
#!/usr/bin/env sh browser_cookies="firefox:1cvnyph7.YouTube TV" download() { url="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=%241" dir=$2 archive_name=$3 yt-dlp -x --audio-format mp3 --embed-thumbnail --embed-metadata --cookies-from-browser "$browser_cookies" --download-archive "archives/$archive_name.txt" -P "$dir" -o "%(title)s.%(ext)s" "$url" } download PLPzniwWWCSjVQteWPqVvyu8SQsrStVYwZ high-quality-rips/ rips download PLPzniwWWCSjWZj3-DAOh8ZKrsVReP_Ksm good-playlist/ picksVery happy you had fun making the little script! One thing that will become important pretty quick if you continue making these scripts is that it’s almost always better to wrap your variables in quotes - so it becomes
yt-dlp -x “$a”. It’s okay here but if you ever paste something that has a space in it, this will keep it together ‘as one’.If you want to expand your knowledge with this, some fruitful paths to go down are the following:
- can you find a way to download multiple urls one after the other if you paste them all at once? (Multiple arguments)
- can you find a way to ask the user for these multiple urls one after the other? (loops)
- and can you find a way to have it ask until you hit enter without a url pasted and only then it starts? (conditionals and test)
The last one is already quite a bit advanced but if you can do that you have enough of the ‘programming’ basics of the shell down to a degree that you can create many little helpers like this with ease.
Of course don’t feel forced to do any of that - if you’re happy with the improvement as-is, that’s all you need to enjoy the fun of Linux!
One thing that will become important pretty quick if you continue making these scripts is that it’s almost always better to wrap your variables in quotes - so it becomes
yt-dlp -x “$a”.Oh man, this reminds me of the joke that any program that’s more complex than Hello World has bugs – and folks still don’t even agree how to spell “Hello, World!”.
Of course, Bash is a particular minefield in this regard…
I once wrote a 2 line, 10 word script that had 9 bugs in it. I’m not overly proud of that one.
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:
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
What does your ~/.bashrc look like? My last change was modifying a
playlistcommandspoiler: I explain my last change to my ~/.bashrc file
playlist https://www.youtube.com/@YouTube/videosor
playlist /home/username/Videosor just from any directory with files
playlistAnd 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 ${@:3} -;}
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Well done, I never could use bash much but can’t deny its useful
Hell yeah
I have a similar scriptlet that I use to open YouTube URLs in mpv, using just and wl-clipboard… I just copy the URL and press my G1 key (it has a keybind of
just yt-pasteattached) which launches the yt-paste snippet below, reads the url from the clipboard, parses it and passes it to mpv.# Parse the clipboard for YouTube URLs and open them in mpv yt-paste: #!/usr/bin/env bash YOUTUBE_URL_REGEX="^https:\/\/(www\.youtube\.com\/watch\?v=|youtu\.be\/)[a-zA-Z0-9_-]{11}" YOUTUBE_PLAYLIST_URL_REGEX="^https:\/\/(www\.youtube\.com\/playlist\?list=)[a-zA-Z0-9_-]+" YOUTUBE_SHORTS_URL_REGEX="^https:\/\/(www\.youtube\.com\/shorts\/)[a-zA-Z0-9_-]{11}" # Youtube URL if [[ "$(wl-paste)" =~ $YOUTUBE_URL_REGEX ]]; then echo "Opening valid YouTube URL" >&2 notify-send --app-name="YT-Paste" --icon=mpv --transient "Opening YouTube URL" mpv "$(wl-paste)" # Youtube Playlist URL elif [[ "$(wl-paste)" =~ $YOUTUBE_PLAYLIST_URL_REGEX ]]; then echo "Opening valid YouTube Playlist URL" >&2 notify-send --app-name="YT-Paste" --icon=mpv --transient "Opening YouTube Playlist URL" mpv "$(wl-paste)" # Youtube Short URL elif [[ "$(wl-paste)" =~ $YOUTUBE_SHORTS_URL_REGEX ]]; then echo "Opening valid YouTube Shorts URL" >&2 notify-send --app-name="YT-Paste" --icon=mpv --transient "Opening YouTube Shorts URL" mpv "$(wl-paste)" # No Match else echo "Clipboard does not contain a valid YouTube URL" >&2 notify-send --app-name="YT-Paste" --icon=mpv --transient "Whoops!" "Clipboard does not contain a valid YouTube URL" exit 1 fihell yeah
