youtube-upnext

A userscript for MPV that allows you to load the up next/recommened youtube video on the fly, as though you were using the web player.

Toggle the menu with ctrl+u (configurable). Select from the list with the arrow keys (configurable), and press Enter (configurable) to select. Menu times out after 10 seconds (configurable).

Press Space to append to the playlist. Close menu with Escape or ctrl+u.

Installation

Copy youtube-upnext.lua into your scripts directory, e.g.:

cp youtube-upnext.lua ~/.config/mpv/scripts/

optional, copy the config file:

cp youtube-upnext.conf ~/.config/mpv/script-opts/

Make sure you have cURL or GNU Wget installed. cURL is included in Windows 10+, macOS, Android and many Linux distributions.

Windows:

The location of the scripts directory on Windows is %APPDATA%\mpv\scripts e.g. C:\Users\cvzi\AppData\Roaming\mpv\scripts

$\textcolor{#D00000}{\textsf{Microsoft ships an old version of cURL with known vulnerabilities.}}$ You are encouraged to install a newer version of cURL:

• Official cURL releases https://curl.se/windows/
• Chocolatey package
• git for windows includes a version of cURL

If you downloaded/installed the curl/wget executable, you have to add the directory of the curl.exe/wget.exe to your machine's %PATH%.

uosc menu integration

If you want to add the upnext menu to uosc, you need to add one of the following line to your input.conf. If you use the line starting with # it just creates an entry in the uosc menu. If you use the second line, it also creates a keyboard shortcut to open the menu. Replace u with the key of your choice:

#           script-message-to youtube_upnext menu     #! Youtube Recommendations
OR
u           script-message-to youtube_upnext menu     #! Youtube Recommendations

If you want it to appear in a submenu, replace Youtube Recommendations with e.g. Utils > Youtube Recommendations

Note: If you're using the default menu of uosc and you don't have the uosc menu defined in input.conf, you first need to create a menu configuration. You can find an example at https://github.com/tomasklaen/uosc#examples

If you want an entry in the controls bar of uosc, you can add the following to the controls= entry in your uosc.conf:

<stream>command:queue_play_next:script-message-to youtube_upnext menu?Up Next

• Pick your desired title instead of Up Next
• Pick another icon instead of queue_play_next from Google Material Icons

mpv.net:

The script folder for mpv.net is: %APPDATA%\mpv.net\scripts

The .conf files belong into: %APPDATA%\mpv.net\script-opts

The keyboard shortcut in the script and the .conf-file doesn't work with mpv.net. You need to set the keyboard shortcut yourself in your input.conf. Default location is %APPDATA%\mpv.net\input.conf. Add the following line to the end of your input.conf (change the key if it's already used):

 Ctrl+u     script-message-to   youtube_upnext   upnext-menu

SVP

Installation is the same as for normal mpv. You need to install yt-dlp. On Windows you have to add the directory of the yt-dlp.exe to your machine's %PATH% or put yt-dlp.exe into %APPDATA%\mpv\ e.g. C:\Users\cvzi\AppData\Roaming\mpv\yt-dlp.exe.

You need to update yt-dlp occasionally when it stops working.

Unfortunately SVP does not make the quality available to scripts. That means the quality settings that were selected in SVP are not preserved when the next video is loaded.

Old mpv versions

If you are using an old version of mpv before v0.37.0, you may have to use an older version of this script and set use_json_lua to yes in the configuration.

Credit

• I pretty much copied the mpv-youtube-quality script and added wget

youtube-quality's Credit

• reload.lua, for the function to reload a video while preserving the playlist.
• mpv-playlistmanager, from which I ripped off much of the menu formatting config.
• ytdl_hook.lua, from which I ripped off much of the youtube-dl code to fetch the format list
• somebody on /mpv/ for the idea