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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) + " &")