Watch flash videos with mpv

Description

Save this script as ~/bin/yt and adjust it to your needs. (Requires youtube-dl)

#!/bin/sh
format="-f34" # leave empty for default
player="mpv --quiet --geometry=50%:50% --idx --keep-open"
tmpdir="$HOME/tmp"

url="$1"
filepath="$tmpdir/$(youtube-dl --id --get-filename $format $url)"

youtube-dl -c -o $filepath $format $url &
echo $! > $filepath.$$.pid

while [ ! -r $filepath ] && [ ! -r $filepath.part ]; do 
	echo "Waiting for youtube-dl..."
	sleep 3
done

[ -r $filepath.part ] && $player $filepath.part || $player $filepath
kill $(cat $filepath.$$.pid)
rm $filepath.$$.pid

Add this to surf's config.h:

#define WATCH {.v = (char *[]){ "/bin/sh", "-c", \
	"st -e \
	yt $(xprop -id $0 _SURF_URI | cut -d \\\" -f 2)", \
	winid, NULL } }

and in the keys section:

{ MODKEY,               GDK_w,      spawn,      WATCH },

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