-import htmlparser
-import httpClient
-import os
-import osproc
-import sequtils, sugar
-import strtabs
-import strutils
-import uri
-import xmltree
+import
+ htmlparser,
+ httpClient,
+ parseopt,
+ osproc,
+ sequtils,
+ sugar,
+ strformat,
+ std/[terminal],
+ strtabs,
+ strutils,
+ uri,
+ xmltree
-# Supported video players in order of preference
-let supportedPlayers = @["mpv", "mplayer", "vlc"]
-
-# Only show these many results
-let limit = 10
-
-# Hard-coded terminal colors
-proc reset(): string {.procvar.} = "\e[0m"
-proc bold*(s: string): string {.procvar.} = "\e[1m" & s & reset()
-
-proc fgMagenta*(s: string): string {.procvar.} = "\e[35m" & s & reset()
-proc fgCyan*(s: string): string {.procvar.} = "\e[36m" & s & reset()
+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:
- echo "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/cli-tube-page.html", response.body)
- return "/tmp/cli-tube-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)]
proc presentVideoOptions(searchResults: seq[SearchResult]) =
echo ""
for index, (title, url) in searchResults:
- echo index, ". ", title.bold.fgMagenta, "\n", url.fgCyan, "\n"
+ styledEcho $index, ". ", styleBright, fgMagenta, title, "\n", resetStyle, fgCyan, url, "\n"
+
+let player = selectMediaPlayer()
+
+var searchQuery = ""
+var musicOnly = false
+var feelingLucky = false
-let searchResults = extractTitlesAndUrls(getYoutubePage(paramStr(1)))
+for kind, key, value in getopt():
+ case kind
+ of cmdArgument:
+ searchQuery = key
+ of cmdShortOption, cmdLongOption:
+ case key
+ of "m", "music": musicOnly = true
+ of "l", "lucky": feelingLucky = true
+ of cmdEnd:
+ discard
+
+if "watch?" in searchQuery or "videos/watch" in searchQuery :
+ discard execProcess(&"{player} {searchQuery}")
+ quit(0)
+elif searchQuery.startswith("magnet:"):
+ discard execProcess(&"peerflix \"{searchQuery}\" --{player}")
+ quit(0)
+
+let searchResults = extractTitlesAndUrls(getYoutubePage(searchQuery))
+
+let number =
+ if feelingLucky: 0
+ else:
+ presentVideoOptions(searchResults)
+ stdout.styledWrite(fgYellow, "Choose video number: ")
+ parseInt(readLine(stdin))
-presentVideoOptions(searchResults)
+styledEcho "\n", fgGreen, "Playing ", styleBright, fgMagenta, searchResults[number].title
-stdout.write "Choose video number: "
-var number: int = parseInt(readLine(stdin))
+var command = @[player, searchResults[number].url]
-var player = selectMediaPlayer()
-echo "\n", "Playing ", searchResults[number].title.bold.fgMagenta
+if musicOnly:
+ command.add("--no-video")
-# Play the video in the media player
-discard execProcess(player & " " & searchResults[number].url)
+# Play the video using the preferred/available media player
+discard execProcess(command.join(" "))