Unixporn @lemmy.ml christos @lemmy.world 1y ago

magic-tape: YouTube TUI client (fzf, image support)

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/530920

Magic-tape is an image supporting fuzzy finder command line interface YouTube client.

https://gitlab.com/christosangel/magic-tape

Image rendering can be done with the use of ueberzugpp, ueberzug, kitty terminal or chafa.

With magic-tape, through the main menu, the user can:

Browse videos from subscriptions.

Browse through trending video feed.

make a video search, using keywords or phrases.

Watch a previously watched video (watch history).

Browse videos from a subcsribed channel.

Watch a liked video.

Repeat the previous selection.

Repeat a previous search (search history).

Watch/download video/audio content, in various formats.

Through the miscellaneous menu the user can

Set up Preferences (configuration).

Like / Unlike a video.

Synchronize the above actions with their YouTube account.

Import subscriptions from YouTube.

Subscribe to/ Unsubscribe from a channel.

Clear their watch/search history, liked videos, thumbnail cache.

9 comments

Wow, that's actually pretty cool, can't wait to try it out. Thanks for sharing
Cool! Does it play videos in MPV (youtube-dl)? That would be really useful for my slow PC.
- Exactly that. This script is great for low resources.
I love the concept, but the script seems to be a bit broken?

It seems to be hardcoded to use $HOME/git/magic-tape/ as the directory it runs from, which isn't going to be true for most people. You can use basename -- "$0" to get the directory the script is running from.
- I have updated the script:
  
  UPDATE: The directory structure of the program has been updated. Instead of keeping everything in ~git/magic-tape/, now various files and directories are kept in various places.
  
  This way,
  
  the magic-tape.sh is in ~/.local/bin/
  
  the magic-tape cache files are all in ~/.cache/magic-tape/
  
  the configuration text file will be created in ~/.config/magic-tape/
  
  The script now runs from any dir by:
  
  $ magic-tape.sh
  
  Nice & clean
- Your point is valid. I am afraid this is so because I keep the scripts from my gitlab repos in a ~/git directory, just to keep them nice and tidy in that place.
  
  At some point I was considering moving the sh script to ~/.local/bin/ , the cache files to ~/.cache/, the configuration files to .config etc, but never got to it. Perhaps it would be better this way.
  
  However the installation instructions include commands to create the ~/git directory, so if one would just follow the instructions and run the respective commands, they would face no problem.
  
  To run the script, I have a key binding dedicated to run kitty -T Magic-Tape /home/myname/git/magic-tape/magic-tape.sh, and a panel launcher with the same command, so the script runs fine.
  
  I will however check the info you gave me (which I admit I ignore), thank you for the feedback.
Yeeeeeeeeees
Looks really cool, will try it soon!
Nice. As an alternative, ytfzf is awesome.

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