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 # youtube playlist cli
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+> [!NOTE]
+> this does NOT download the videos. only thumbnails (optional)
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 A simplish set of bash scripts to have a locally stored youtube playlist using fzf and sqlite3 with thumbnails
 
 Technically you can modify this to store anything other than just yt videos