Monthly Archives: February 2010

ytplay – wrapper for youtube-dl.py

Posted on February 17, 2010 by Andreas Goelzer

Due to my slightly outdated computer flash is a huge problem. So, for viewing youtube videos, youtube-dl.py is a great solution. However, I wanted something more comfortable.

ytplay wraps around youtube-dl.py, it searches for a video, orders youtube-dl to get it, and starts playing it in vlc.

Usage is simple:
> ytplay foobar
will search youtube for videos about foobar and play the first one found.

The code is still quite dirty, especially the subprocess part. However, it should work, have fun!

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#!/usr/bin/python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
#		parser.add_option('-P', '--play', action='store_true',
#				dest='play', help='play in vlc', default=False)
 
from optparse import OptionParser
from subprocess import Popen, PIPE
from urllib2 import urlopen 
from urllib import quote_plus
from re import search, match
from os import system
 
parser = OptionParser(version='2010.02.13')
 
parser.add_option('-p', '--player',
dest='player', metavar='PROGRAM', help='media player to use', default='vlc')
 
(opts, args) = parser.parse_args()
 
if match("http://",args[0]):
	videopageurl = args[0]
else:
	searchargs = '+'.join(args)
	searchurl = "http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=&aq=f&oq=&search_query=" + quote_plus(searchargs)
	searchresult = urlopen(searchurl).read()
	p=search(r'(watch\?[^"]*)',searchresult)
	if p==None:
		print "No Videos found"
		exit()
	videopageurl="http://www.youtube.com/" + p.group(1)
 
 
print "Starting youtube-dl for " + videopageurl
ytdl = Popen("youtube-dl.py -t -b " + videopageurl,shell=True,stdout=PIPE)
 
while not ytdl.stdout.closed:
	line = ytdl.stdout.readline()
	print line,
	if line == '': exit()
	p = search(r'\[download\] Destination: (\S*)',line)
	if p != None:
		print "Starting player: " + opts.player + " " + p.group(1)
		system(opts.player + " " + p.group(1) + " &")
filetype ytplay (1.28 kiB, 2010-02-14)

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