✨feat: new dmenu script for watching YouTube or Twitch using mpv

README.md

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 ## [animecopy](https://git.ch-naseem.com/konpaku/Scripts_Collection/raw/master/scripts/animecopy.sh)
 ![](https://git.ch-naseem.com/konpaku/Scripts_Collection/raw/master/asset/animecopybutrenamed.avif)
     a script made for copying all .mp4 and .mkv subfiles on a domain. made for syncplay watch parties.
-    considering adding a recursive feature
+    considering adding a recursive feature
+
+## mpv_stream
+
+a quality of life script for streaming media with mpv. For YouTube videos just copy the URL to the video you wanna watch or download, as for Twitch you might wanna edit the script and add your favorite streamers (must be a correct username to work!).

scripts/mpv_stream.sh

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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+set -euo pipefail
+
+# to use a SOCKS proxy run this in the
+# background before excuting the script
+# ssh -D 1080 -C -N user@ip
+
+SOCKS_PROXY_URL="socks5://localhost:1080"
+TWITCH_CHANNELS="christitustech\ntheprimeagen"
+VIDEO_DIR="$HOME/Videos/youtube/"
+
+media=$(echo -e "Video\nStream" | dmenu -p "Media Type: ")
+quality=$(echo -e "480p\n720p\n1080p" | dmenu -p "Quality: ")
+socks=$(echo -e "no\nyes" | dmenu -p "use SOCKS? ")
+
+if [[ $socks == "yes" ]]; then
+  MPV_COMMAND="alacritty -e mpv --http-proxy="$SOCKS_PROXY_URL""
+else
+  MPV_COMMAND="alacritty -e mpv"
+fi
+
+case "$media" in
+  "Video")
+    action=$(echo -e "Stream\nDownload" | dmenu -p "Media Type: ")
+    case "$action" in
+      "Stream")
+        $MPV_COMMAND --save-position-on-quit "--ytdl-format=bestvideo[height<=$quality]+bestaudio" "$(xclip -o -selection clipboard)"
+        ;;
+      "Download")
+        mkdir -p $VIDEO_DIR
+        alacritty -e yt-dlp  -f "[height<=$quality]+bestaudio" "$(xclip -o -selection clipboard)" -o "$VIDEO_DIR/%(uploader)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s"
+        ;;
+    esac
+    ;;
+  "Stream")
+    channel=$(echo -e "$TWITCH_CHANNELS" | dmenu -p "Channel: ")
+    $MPV_COMMAND --no-resume-playback "--ytdl-format=bestvideo[height<=$quality]+bestaudio" "https://www.twitch.tv/$channel"
+    ;;
+esac
+
+# TODO: make this work
+# input=$(echo -n | dmenu -p "YouTube Search: ")
+# [[ -n $input ]] && st ytfzf -ft --preview-side=right "$input"