MPlayer youtube script

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:

• youtube.sh <url> [mplayer args]
• youtube.sh http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=example -dumpstream -dumpfile something.flv
• youtube.sh http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=example -aspect 16:9
• youtube.sh http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=example -xy 2

#!/bin/bash

if [ -z "$1" ]
then
    echo "usage: $0 <youtube-URL> [mplayer args]"
    exit
fi

url="$1"
shift

echo \"http://www.youtube.com/get_video?video_id=$(wget -q -O - "$url"          \
                                                   | sed -e '/fullscreenUrl/!d' \
                                                         -e 's/.*video_id=//'   \
                                                         -e 's/ /_/g'           \
                                                         -e "s/[';]//g"         \
                                                  )\"                           \
| xargs mplayer "$@"

created by enouf and n3kl and amphi

modified by Elte