A POSIX script that helps you find Youtube videos (without API) and opens/downloads them using mpv/youtube-dl
This one-line installation does not support every OS, detail information for different OS can be found in the here
sudo curl -L "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pystardust/ytfzf/master/ytfzf" -o /usr/bin/ytfzf && sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/ytfzf
Dependencies
Installation
Usage Instruction
Configurations
Subscriptions
Update Log
Examples
Todo
Bugs
- Subscriptions
- Thumbnails
- History
- Download
- Format selection
- Queue multiple videos
- We have now added Subscriptions which allows you to search between videos of subscribed channels easily
- Now ytfzf can queue videos using fzf multiselect option. Press tab to select a video. All the videos will be lined up in mpv. Use
>
and<
to traverse them. - Make continuous queries with
-s
- You can preview video thumbnails now! Using Ueberzug. Inspired by
fontpreview-ueberzug
. - Stdin can be taken by using
ytfzf -
, for both fzf and external menu. - Added MacOS support
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Search with Thumbnails
Find and watch videos with thumbnail previews
ytfzf -t <query>
Show all subscriptions with thumbnails (latest 10)
ytfzf -St
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You can use multiple options together, here are some examples
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Stream audio (music), and prompt as the music finishes
ytfzf -ml <query>
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Download a video from your history
ytfzf -dH
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Open using external menu in a certain format
ytfzf -fD
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If you started watching a video and you wish to change format then first hit Q to save position and quit mpv, then choose your format using
ytfzf -faH
- Playlists
- More sites
- Subscriptions
- Thumbnails
- dwm with swallow patch: Images don't render when looped (ie, option -l)
- If thumbnails are not working
.Xauthority
might be causing it. Try deleting.Xauthority
and relogging.