termux-url-opener bash script for downloading and playing Youtube videos
How I download and play YouTube videos with my smartphone using vlc and yt-dlp! I wrote this bash script as ~/bin/termux-url-opener and tell the YouTube app to share with termux. Prompts if I want to download an mp3 audio or video, saves the file, then opens it ad free in vlc.
#!/bin/bash
read -t 5 -p "Hit m for mp3 otherwise download video: " CHOICE
if [[ "$CHOICE" == "m" ]]; then
DOWNLOAD_DIR="/sdcard/Movies"
cd "$DOWNLOAD_DIR"
FILENAME=$(yt-dlp -x --audio-format mp3 --print filename -o "%(title)s.mp3" "$1")
FILENAME=${FILENAME%.*}.mp3
echo "downloading mp3..." $FILENAME
yt-dlp "$1" -x --audio-format mp3 -o "$FILENAME"
am start -a android.intent.action.VIEW \ -
-d "file://$DOWNLOAD_DIR/$FILENAME" \
-t "audio/mp3" \
-n org.videolan.vlc/org.videolan.vlc.gui.video.VideoPlayerActivity
exit 1
fi
DOWNLOAD_DIR="/sdcard/Movies"
cd "$DOWNLOAD_DIR"
FORMAT="bestvideo[height<=240]+bestaudio[abr<=128]/best[height<=240]"
FILENAME=$(yt-dlp -f "$FORMAT" --print filename -o "%(title)s.%(ext)s" "$1")
echo "Downloading: $FILENAME"
yt-dlp -o "%(title)s.%(ext)s" "$1" -f "$FORMAT"
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
echo "Got error, retrying in 10 secomds"
sleep 10
yt-dlp -o "%(title)s.%(ext)s" "$1" -f "$FORMAT"
fi
am start -a android.intent.action.VIEW \
-d "file://$DOWNLOAD_DIR/$FILENAME" \
-t "video/*" \
-n org.videolan.vlc/org.videolan.vlc.gui.video.VideoPlayerActivity
