MPlayer youtube script

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bash script for playing youtube videos

  1. save it as youtube.sh
  2. chmod +x youtube.sh
  3. place it somewhere in PATH (like /usr/local/bin )

Usage:

#!/bin/bash

if [ -z "$1" ]; then echo "No URL!"; exit; fi

url=$1
shift

echo \"http://www.youtube.com/get_video?video_id=`wget -q -O - $url | grep fullscreenUrl | awk -F'video_id=' '{ print $2 }' | sed -e 's/ /_/g' | tr -d \'\; `\" | xargs mplayer $*

created by enouf and n3kl and amphi