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CLI utility to search and view/download YouTube videos

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Is there a utility that can search YouTube from the command line, and then either **view** or **download** the search results according to user input? $ youtube-search madonna 1 Madonna - Hung Up (Official Music Video) madonna ♩ 180M views 9 years ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDwb9jOVRtU "Hung Up" by Madonna from Confessions On A Dance Floor, available now. 2 Madonna - Like A Prayer (Official Music Video) madonna ♩ 69M views 9 years ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79fzeNUqQbQ 2006 WMG Like A Prayer. etc. And then you can enter: - "v1" to view video 1 (with VLC, etc.) - "d1-3" to download videos 1-3 (with youtube-dl, etc.) - "n" to view next page of search results What I tried so far: googler works partially with YouTube, but for some reason only shows two search results when searching for "Madonna". Also there is not the choice between view and download. youtube-dl has a search function, but doesn't seem to print the search results nor accept user input. youtube-dl -j ytsearch:madonna lists metadata about search results, but doesn't seem to contain the video link, title and description that would be desired.
Asked by forthrin (2469 rep)
Jan 22, 2019, 03:34 PM
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