import htmlparser
import httpClient
import os
import osproc
import sequtils, sugar
import strtabs
import strutils
import uri
import xmltree
# TODO Pretty colors in terminal
# import terminal
# Supported video players in order of preference
# TODO Should go into a config file
let supportedPlayers = @["mpv", "mplayer", "vlc"]
type SearchResult = tuple[title: string, url: string]
proc selectMediaPlayer(): string =
let availablePlayers = filterIt(supportedPlayers, execProcess("which " & it).len != 0)
if len(availablePlayers) == 0:
echo "Please install one of the supported media players: ", supportedPlayers
raise newException(OSError, "No supported media player found")
else:
return availablePlayers[0]
proc getYoutubePage(searchQuery: string): string =
let queryParam = encodeUrl(searchQuery)
var client = newHttpClient()
let response = get(client, "https://www.youtube.com/results?hl=en&search_query=" & queryParam)
# TODO Get rid of temp file or make one temp file per user
writeFile("/tmp/cli-tube-page.html", response.body)
return "/tmp/cli-tube-page.html"
proc extractTitlesAndUrls(htmlFile: string): seq[SearchResult] =
loadHtml(htmlFile).findAll("a").
filter(a => "watch" in a.attrs["href"] and a.attrs.hasKey "title").
map(a => (a.attrs["title"], "https://www.youtube.com" & a.attrs["href"]))
proc presentVideoOptions(searchResults: seq[SearchResult]) =
for index, (title, url) in searchResults:
echo index, ". ", title, "\n", url, "\n"
presentVideoOptions(
extractTitlesAndUrls(
getYoutubePage(
paramStr(1))))