yt-cli

Search and play YouTube videos via the command line.

Installation

It's just a simple bash script and relies on yt-dlp, jq, fzf and mpv for the heavy lifting, so make sure these programs are installed.
Place it somewhere like ~/.scripts,
make it executable and add an alias in your .bashrc
alias yt='/home/user/.scripts/yt'
On Debian-based distros like Ubuntu, to get the latest version of yt-dlp, get the binaries from GitHub

sudo wget https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp -O /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp
sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp  

Usage

USAGE yt [OPTIONS] "SEARCH STRING"

Search and play YouTube videos.

  -h, --help         Show this help.
  -n, --num-results  Number of search results to fetch, defaults to 50.
  -c, --consumer     Command to be called with URLs of selected videos,
                     default is mpv.
  -v, --version      Print version.
  --                 Stops interpreting the following arguments as options.

Showcase

showcase.mp4