Ytfzf 2.0

[Euro20179]

We didn't like the old code base so we decided to rewrite it.
The goal is to keep the codebase simple, and avoid features that lots of complexity.

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To update to the new release

git clone https://github.com/pystardust/ytfzf
cd ytfzf
sudo make install man

If you do not wish to install man pages (highly unrecommended) run sudo make install instead.

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Changes

Assume your current config file doesn't work with this update, see ytfzf(1) and ytfzf(5).
Feel free to ask here or on the discord for help.

Breaking Changes

• Many variables have been renamed
• Many config options (such as video_player) that were strings are now functions

Additions

• Scrapers for invidious

• -I to get various information about a video instead of playing it

• support for w3m image display (although it's a bit buggy)

• submenus, eg: when clicking on a playlist, it scrapes the playlist and opens it

• multi-scrape, scrape multiple websites at once

  • ytfzf -cO,Y search
  • the above will scrape odysee and youtube.

• framework for playlists

  • To see what a playlist file looks like, check out the ~/.cache/ytfzf/watch_hist file (after you watch a video and if you have history enabled)

• Modularity

  • ability to add things such as scrapers, and thumbnail viewers yourself

Documentation

• All documentation has been moved into the man pages, instead of conf.sh
  • this allows us to change default settings to fix bugs as everyone seemed to copy and paste the default config file

Removed

• Search history
  • however it is possible to implement this yourself in conf.sh using the on_search function

Bugs

• At least 1 bug has been fixed
• Many bugs have probably been introduced and uncaught, please file a bug report if you find any :)

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This discussion was created from the release Ytfzf 2.0.

[timsofteng]

Do you consider implementation of preview in external program? Like imv or whatever.
It might be useful for tiling window managers. In addition it's simple way to see preview on Wayland.

[Euro20179]

I implemented imv viewer, I should've kept the branch, but didn't, I'll probably do it again, cause it was actually pretty decent.
However currently there is kitty.

Edit:
to better answer the quesiton, I think it's a good idea to add alternatives for ueberzug, until we can find (or maybe create) something that replaces it, and that works on wayland and x11.