#!/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