This project is no longer actively maintained, it should still work for the foreseeable future

A POSIX script that helps you find Youtube videos (without API) and opens/downloads them using mpv/youtube-dl

• Dependencies
• Install
• Features
• Examples
• Configuration
• Bugs
• Contributing
• Credits

There are only 2 required dependencies, however the rest require some configuration before you can replace them.

• jq
• curl

• mpv (the default video and audio player)
• fzf (the default menu selection screen)

• yt-dlp (for downloading)
• dmenu (only if using the -D option)
• ueberzugpp
  • needed for the following thumbnail viewers:
    • kitty, iterm2, sixel, and ueberzug
  • the original ueberzug or any fork may be used if you only want to use the ueberzug viewer.

• To use a thumbnail viewer include -T <viewer> in the command when running ytfzf

if on linux and installed using make on version 2.0 or prior, run sudo make uninstall-old first

1. Install the dependencies listed above
2. Run the following commands

git clone https://github.com/pystardust/ytfzf
cd ytfzf
sudo make install doc

• If you wish to not install documentation (highly unrecommended) run sudo make install instead.

• If you wish to install addons, run sudo make addons

  • YTFZF_SYSTEM_ADDONS_DIR will point to /usr/local/share/ytfzf/addons even if you set PREFIX to something else
  • If you use a different prefix, it would be smart to export YTFZF_SYSTEM_ADDONS_DIR to $PREFIX/share/ytfzf/addons in a shell startup file.

• You may also install ytfzf through your package manager, as listed on the side.

Addons are extra features that will not be as supported as everything built into ytfzf itself.

Addons are located in addons, copy any addon to ~/.config/ytfzf/{addon-type}/{addon}, and give it execute permissions.

You may also just copy the entire addon folder type, eg: cp -r addons/thumbnail-viewers ~/.config/ytfzf/

To use a scraper addon run ytfzf -c <scraper> ...

To use a thumbnail-viewer addon run ytfzf -T <viewer> ...

To use a interface addon run ytfzf -i <interface> ...

To use a url-handler addon run ytfzf -u <handler> ...

To use a sort-name addon run ytfzf --sort-name=<sort-name> ...

To use an extension addon run ytfzf -e <extension> ...

• Subscriptions
• Thumbnails
• Watch history
• Search History
• Downloading
• Queueing multiple videos
• Custom menus, and scrapers
• Addon support

Search with thumbnails

ytfzf -t <search>

Use dmenu as the menu instead of fzf

ytfzf -D <search>

Print the link of the selected video instead of playing it

ytfzf -L <search>

Search Odysee instead of youtube

ytfzf -cO <search>

Use the chafa thumbnail viewer, pass --vo=sixel, and --quiet to mpv, scrape odysee with the search odysee search, youtube with the search: youtube search, and also scrape subscriptions

ytfzf -t -T chafa --url-handler-opts='--vo=sixel --quiet' -cO,Y,SI --multi-search odysee search,youtube search

Everything that is an option can also be configured in ~/.config/ytfzf/conf.sh.

In addition, the video player and other things may be changed here

Here is a sample configuration (please dont use it)

For more information, see ytfzf(5) which should be installed, if it's not see the wiki.

• dwm with swallow patch: Images don't render with ueberzug when looped (ie, option -l)
• if thumbnails are not working .Xauthority might be causing it. Try deleting it and relogging into your computer.
• When fzf is not set to 100% height, thumbnails may appear in the wrong position

Feel free to contribute, and add your name to the credits, please use the development branch. For more information see contributing