this isn’t perfect but i made one when i wanted to fetch a video for a specific resolution (because i prefer 480)

ytgrab() {  
  local id="$1"  
  local res="${2:-480}" # default to 480  
  local url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=%24id"  

  # fetch formats  
  local fmt  
  fmt=$(yt-dlp -F --cookies-from-browser vivaldi "$url")  

  # printing the format output  
  echo "$fmt"  

  # pick video format matching the requested resolution  
  local vfmt  
  vfmt=$(echo "$fmt" | awk -v r="${res}p" '$0 ~ r && /video/ {print $1}' | head -n1)  

  # pick best m4a audio  
  local afmt  
  afmt=$(echo "$fmt" | awk '/m4a/ && /audio/ {print $1}' | head -n1)  

  # safety check  
  if [ -z "$vfmt" ] || [ -z "$afmt" ]; then  
    echo "Could not find matching formats (video ${res}p or m4a audio)."  
    return 1  
  fi  

  echo fetching: yt-dlp -f ${vfmt}+${afmt} --cookies-from-browser vivaldi --write-subs --no-write-auto-subs --sub-lang "en.*" $url  
  yt-dlp -f "${vfmt}+${afmt}" --write-subs --cookies-from-browser vivaldi --no-write-auto-subs --sub-lang "en.*" "$url"  
}  

I simply using local LLM for it

Amazing.

Injust switched a year ago and now I finally discovered bash scripts.

It is so mich easier, I also automated some manual tasks with Python scripts to name my PDFs, never would have done that with windows.

And the best part of it, it’s actually fun and I want to even do more.

As always I have to thank DJT, for make me switch. 🤣

awesome! I never would have thought to make something like that.

It’s a slippery slope. Soon you’ll be using Vim and ordering thighsocks on the Internet.

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-paste attached) 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
  fi

this is neat, thanks!

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]" $argv  

I love things like this, makes it so easy to learn when it’s a really simple to understand and explicit implementation of a high level feature (read input, pass to command)

Guess 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/ picks

Well done, I never could use bash much but can’t deny its useful

I self host Pinchflat and have set it up to monitor one of my own yt playlists. Then if I want to download anything on mobile or desktop I just save it to that playlist and it’s done.

You all forgot to add the best yt-dlp option: --sponsorblock-remove all

Stop right now. This will all end in tears. You’ll become a developer and spend the rest of your life fixing bugs. You can still get out.