import os
import osproc
import sequtils, sugar
+import strformat
import std/[terminal]
import strtabs
import strutils
import uri
import xmltree
-# Supported video players in order of preference
-let supportedPlayers = @["mpv", "vlc"]
-
-# Only show these many results
-let limit = 10
+import preferences
type SearchResult = tuple[title: string, url: string]
proc selectMediaPlayer(): string =
let availablePlayers = filterIt(supportedPlayers, execProcess("which " & it).len != 0)
if len(availablePlayers) == 0:
- stderr.writeLine "Please install one of the supported media players: ", $supportedPlayers
+ stderr.writeLine &"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)
- writeFile("/tmp/clitube-page.html", response.body)
- return "/tmp/clitube-page.html"
+ let client = newHttpClient()
+ let response = get(client, &"https://www.youtube.com/results?hl=en&search_query={queryParam}")
+ return $response.body
proc extractTitlesAndUrls(htmlFile: string): seq[SearchResult] =
- loadHtml(htmlFile).findAll("a").
+ parseHtml(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"]))[..(limit-1)]
let player = selectMediaPlayer()
if "https://www.youtube.com" in input:
- discard execProcess(player & " " & input)
+ discard execProcess(&"{player} {input}")
quit(0)
let searchResults = extractTitlesAndUrls(getYoutubePage(input))
presentVideoOptions(searchResults)
stdout.styledWrite(fgYellow, "Choose video number: ")
-var number: int = parseInt(readLine(stdin))
+let number = parseInt(readLine(stdin))
styledEcho "\n", fgGreen, "Playing ", styleBright, fgMagenta, searchResults[number].title
# Play the video using the preferred/available media player
-discard execProcess(player & " " & searchResults[number].url)
+discard execProcess(&"{player} {searchResults[number].url}")