youtube-playlist-cli/README.md

youtube playlist cli

[!NOTE] this does NOT download the videos. only thumbnails (optional)

A simplish set of bash scripts to have a locally stored youtube playlist using fzf and sqlite3 with thumbnails

there is also a web frontend in web

Technically you can modify this to store anything other than just yt videos

download

Just download this repo and rename youtube_stuffs.db.def to youtube_stuffs.db

requirements

• bash
• fzf
• sqlite3
• sed
• yt-dlp
• wget

optional requirements

• chafa # for image previews
• a terminal that works with chafa. i use wezterm

Usage

• have a playlist or video thats either unlisted or public.
• run fetch.sh "youtube url/playlist url" "playlist name". that should pretty much do everything.
• check download_err.txt for download errors. Videos that are marked as nsfw and require sign in will NOT be added to the list and require manual intervention
• then getyt.
  • if you want thumbnails getyt -c.
  • if you want to de a specific "category" or playlist. do getyt playlistname
• if you want too then delete download.txt and download_err.txt and thumberr.txt

getytmd

generates a md file of the whole db or a category. one with thumbnails and one without.

intended to be used with neovim markdown preview + 3rd image. but anything that can view a markdown file and load the thumbnails is fine. even a browser md viewer.

getytmd playlistname[optional]

config

• In getyt there is the preview lines and columns. Idk if I can autodetect this because something something fzf doesn't do something something
• If you want to change anything else you would have to change the script. Feel free to make your own config system

todo

• auto detect detect last item in list when and before adding new item so thumbnails doesn't start at 1. Or async it or something idk