yt-fzf

yt-fzf is a posix script to find and watch youtube videos from the terminal. Unfortenetly public instances wont work so we have to run our own locally.

git clone https://github.com/pystardust/ytfzf.git
make
sudo make install

Edit the config file

vim .config/ytfzf/conf.sh

And add this content:

#!/bin/sh

# This is a sample config file, refer to ytfzf(5) for more information

ytdl_pref='bestvideo[height<=?1080]+bestaudio/best'
sub_link_count=8
show_thumbnails=1
pages_start=1
search_again=1
multi_search=1
invidious_instance="http://localhost:3000"

# Thumbnail
thumbnail_viewer="ueberzug"
thumbnail_quality="maxres"
fzf_preview_side="right"
sort_by="upload_date"

on_opt_parse_c () {
    arg="$1"
    case "$arg" in
	#when scraping subscriptions enable -l
	#-cSI or -cS
	SI|S) is_loop=1 ;;
    esac
}

Install Dependencys

sudo pacman -S crystal shards postgresql

Compile Invidious

git clone https://github.com/iv-org/invidious
cd invidious
shards install
crystal build src/invidious.cr --release

Initialise Database and start postgres:

sudo su - postgres -c 'initdb -D /var/lib/postgres/data'
postgresql

Copy the infivous config file over:

cp config/config.example.yml config/config.yml

And change the following entrys in config/config.yml:

db:
  user: postgres
  password: ""
  dbname: invidious
  host: localhost
  port: 5432

hmac_key: "8f3d342cfb8a11d93e9f..."

Login into postgres

sudo -u postgres psql

Within the psql-Prompt:

CREATE USER invidious WITH PASSWORD 'invidious';
CREATE DATABASE invidious OWNER invidious;
\q

Import DB-Scheme:

psql -U invidious -h localhost -d invidious < config/sql/channels.sql
psql -U invidious -h localhost -d invidious < config/sql/videos.sql
psql -U invidious -h localhost -d invidious < config/sql/users.sql
psql -U invidious -h localhost -d invidious < config/sql/session_ids.sql
psql -U invidious -h localhost -d invidious < config/sql/nonces.sql
psql -U invidious -h localhost -d invidious < config/sql/channel_videos.sql

Now you can start invidious

./invidious

Add both postgres and invidous to your boot runlevel.

Now you can search anything with yt-fzf

ytfzf "Anything"

Done! Have fun with ytfzf