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Magic-tape is an image supporting fuzzy finder command line interface YouTube client.
https://gitlab.com/christosangel/magic-tape
Image support is achieved either with kitty terminal, ueberzug or chafa.
With magic-tape, through the main menu, the user can:
Browse videos from subscriptions.
Browse through trending video feed.
make a video search, using keywords or phrases.
Watch a previously watched video (watch history).
Browse videos from a subcsribed channel.
Watch a liked video.
Repeat the previous selection.
Repeat a previous search (search history).
Watch/download video/audio content, in various formats.
Through the miscellaneous menu the user can
Set up Preferences (configuration).
Like / Unlike a video.
Synchronize the above actions with their YouTube account.
Import subscriptions from YouTube.
Subscribe to/ Unsubscribe from a channel.
Clear their watch/search history, liked videos, thumbnail cache.
Looks like a cool script. I am learning different TUI tools now and willing to migrate some from GUI. This one gives me trouble. I probably did something wrong. When I press
m
thenP
- nothing happens. Supposedly, there should be preferences. And the program didn’t ask me on the first run to configure anything.When I search a video with
s
- I get in a preview window:zsh:11: command not found: draw_preview
I do not know how this script is interacting with zsh. Have you tried to run it with bash?
$ echo $0 bash
Strange… It still displays the same zsh error and the preferences are not displayed. I even tried to execute the program using
bash magic-tape.sh
while in bashI tried on a machine where only bash is installed, and the search window is blank, yt-dlp gives an error that flashes and I can’t read quickly, no preferences appear, again it flashes some text but I cannot read it. Also, the location for the folder is not relative, it has to be in
~/git/magic-tape
otherwise it will give you multiple errors.Have you followed the instructions correctly to install the script?
Obviously something is not ok, and I find it surprising that the script is not working in all these distros.
You have zsh errors with the Debian as well, although it is not installed?
Is yt-dlp up to date? If you use this command on its own, do you get any errors?
I am trying to troubleshoot, but in the dark.
Yeah, I followed the instructions, created necessary folders.
yt-dlp
is not the latest version, but the latest from Debian bookworm repositories (2023.03.04).yt-dlp
works perfectly to download and convert videos withffmpeg
.When I try to browse trending
yt-dlp
says:yt-dlp: error: playlist end "0" must be must be greater than or equal to playlist start "1"
I don’t have
zsh
errors on Debian where onlybash
is installed, after searching for a video I got a blank screen with the only option:Select video: search videos 1 to 0: > 1 Abort Selection
On Debian, what preference values have you entered (P option on misc menu)?
That P menu doesn’t open on all systems that I’ve tried
You can open the P option by either double-clicking on it with the mouse, or entering capital P with the keyboard. You can get to select the P option through the misc menu.
Do you get any error messages when doing so?
Have you installed all the dependencies of the script (rofi in particular)?
I did not have
rofi
installed on my headless machine, from the description I understand it is a GUI application. After installing it I still could not get the Preferences menu to appear. Nothing happens when I press P, or more specifically there is a quick flash of something and it comes back to the m submenu