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.

  • @[email protected]
    2•1 year ago

    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 use basename -- "$0" to get the directory the script is running from.

    • christosOP
      1•1 year ago

      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 edit: forgot), thank you for the feedback.

    • christosOPmagyar
      1•1 year ago

      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