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On ytfzf versions 2.0 and above, you can do |
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Wow thanks, looks like lots of nice improvements in this new version! I'll download the latest now and have a play, I'd love to be able to retire my modded version and move back onto the standard release. |
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Glad you like it, feel free to leave any feedback on what you think is missing, or is broken. |
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I was trying to get ytfzf to play playlists. Some playlists are large, and youtube doesn't provide an elegant way to search within them.
I couldn't find any combination of ytfzf options to import a playlist so you could then search within it.
The biggest complication I found is AFAIK the json from youtube for playlists won't include view_counts, date, and description. One approach is to grab those dynamically as you navigate the search results and cache the data to disk (eg with a per-video json file) But this makes the interface a bit clunky until the cache is built. Another way is to prebuild a cache for a playlist before you pass it to ytfzl. I used youtube-dl as a quick and dirty way to build the cache and then modded thumbnail_video_info_text in my conf.sh to use it. For example:
"youtube-dl --skip-download --print-json --no-warnings "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=$shorturl" > "$jfile"Alternatively you could just ignore these data items for playlists altogether. It's nice to see viewcounts at least tho.
Anyway the mods seem to work ok. I haven't tested them much yet but I find it useful and am happy to share what I have :)
EDIT: I've noticed my current approach suffers from the "infinite scrolling" problem for large playlists containing > 100 items...I am investigating to see if there's a reasonably efficient way around this.
ytfzf -t -X "https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGBuKfnErZlAkaUUy57-mR97f8SBgMNHh"
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