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.
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 usebasename -- "$0"
to get the directory the script is running from.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.
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
- the
Yeeeeeeeeees
Nice. As an alternative, ytfzf is awesome.