commit 6d33892049fad83aa149bb883ff0cf2e7e073661
Author: Christian Ulrich <christian@ulrich.earth>
Date:   Wed Sep 30 18:27:47 2020 +0200

    initial commit

diff --git a/watchyt.sh b/watchyt.sh
new file mode 100755
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+++ b/watchyt.sh
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+#!/bin/sh
+
+max_results=${2:-10}
+line_index=0
+title=""
+id=""
+uploader=""
+duration=""
+video_titles=()
+video_urls=()
+
+mkdir -p "$HOME/.local/share/watchyt"
+cd "$HOME/.local/share/watchyt"
+
+mkfifo youtube_dl_output
+youtube-dl --get-title --get-filename -o '%(id)s;%(duration)d;%(upload_date)s;%(uploader)s' ytsearch${max_results}:"$1" 2>/dev/null > youtube_dl_output &
+
+while read line
+do
+  case $line_index in
+    0)
+      title="$line"
+      ;;
+    1)
+      id=$(echo "$line" | cut -d ';' -f 1)
+      duration=$(echo "$line" | cut -d ';' -f 2)
+      upload_date=$(echo "$line" | cut -d ';' -f 3)
+      uploader=$(echo "$line" | cut -d ';' -f 4)
+
+      video_titles+=( "$title" )
+      video_urls+=( "https://youtube.com/watch?v=$id" )
+      duration_minutes=$(( duration / 60 ))
+      duration_seconds=$(( duration % 60 ))
+      upload_date_formatted=$(date -d"$upload_date" +%d/%m/%Y)
+      entry_index=${#video_urls[@]}
+      echo "$(printf "%2d" $entry_index)) $title [$duration_minutes:$(printf "%02d" $duration_seconds)]"
+      echo "    uploaded by \"$uploader\" on $upload_date_formatted"
+      echo ""
+      ;;
+  esac
+  line_index=$(( line_index + 1))
+  line_index=$(( line_index % 2 ))
+done < youtube_dl_output
+
+rm youtube_dl_output
+video_count="${#video_urls}"
+if [ "$video_count" -eq "0" ]
+then
+  echo "no videos found"
+  exit 0
+fi
+
+echo -n "please select video: "
+read selection
+
+case $selection in
+  (*[!0-9]*|'')
+    echo "invalid selection"
+    exit 1
+    ;;
+  (*)
+    if [ "$selection" -gt $(( video_count )) ]
+    then
+      echo "invalid selection"
+      exit 2 
+    fi
+    video_url="${video_urls[$(( selection - 1 ))]}"
+    youtube-dl --restrict-filenames -o '%(title)s.%(ext)s' "$video_url"
+    filename=$(youtube-dl -s --get-filename --restrict-filenames -o '%(title)s' "$video_url")
+    echo "filename: $filename"
+    vlc "$filename".* 2>/dev/null
+    ;;
+esac