12 # Supported video players in order of preference
13 let supportedPlayers = ["mpv", "vlc"]
15 # Only show these many results
18 type SearchResult = tuple[title: string, url: string]
20 proc selectMediaPlayer(): string =
21 let availablePlayers = filterIt(supportedPlayers, execProcess("which " & it).len != 0)
22 if len(availablePlayers) == 0:
23 stderr.writeLine "Please install one of the supported media players: ", $supportedPlayers
24 raise newException(OSError, "No supported media player found")
26 return availablePlayers[0]
28 proc getYoutubePage(searchQuery: string): string =
29 let queryParam = encodeUrl(searchQuery)
30 let client = newHttpClient()
31 let response = get(client, "https://www.youtube.com/results?hl=en&search_query=" & queryParam)
34 proc extractTitlesAndUrls(htmlFile: string): seq[SearchResult] =
35 parseHtml(htmlFile).findAll("a").
36 filter(a => "watch" in a.attrs["href"] and a.attrs.hasKey "title").
37 map(a => (a.attrs["title"], "https://www.youtube.com" & a.attrs["href"]))[..(limit-1)]
39 proc presentVideoOptions(searchResults: seq[SearchResult]) =
41 for index, (title, url) in searchResults:
42 styledEcho $index, ". ", styleBright, fgMagenta, title, "\n", resetStyle, fgCyan, url, "\n"
44 let input = paramStr(1)
45 let player = selectMediaPlayer()
47 if "https://www.youtube.com" in input:
48 discard execProcess(player & " " & input)
51 let searchResults = extractTitlesAndUrls(getYoutubePage(input))
53 presentVideoOptions(searchResults)
55 stdout.styledWrite(fgYellow, "Choose video number: ")
56 let number: int = parseInt(readLine(stdin))
58 styledEcho "\n", fgGreen, "Playing ", styleBright, fgMagenta, searchResults[number].title
60 # Play the video using the preferred/available media player
61 discard execProcess(player & " " & searchResults[number].url)