Feature Request: Searching videos from cli

[blurmonk]

Hi

I like this tool, it works very well. It would be so great if it is possible to also use for searching for videos on the command line (without any browser)

thanks

[phihag]

That's already possible, try something like

youtube-dl --get-title "yvsearch5:falling cat"

to get the top five videos of falling cats on Yahoo video. You can look at the list of extractors, all search engines should contain search.

You can also just pass in the search term, this will use the youtube search (ytsearch):

$ youtube-dl "Python tutorial"  
WARNING: Falling back to youtube search for  Python tutorial . Set --default-search to "auto" to suppress this warning.
[youtube:search] query "Python tutorial": Downloading page 1
[download] Downloading playlist: Python tutorial
[youtube:search] playlist Python tutorial: Collected 1 video ids (downloading 1 of them)
[download] Downloading video #1 of 1
[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] cpPG0bKHYKc: Downloading webpage
[youtube] cpPG0bKHYKc: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] cpPG0bKHYKc: Extracting video information
[download] Destination: Python Beginner Tutorial 1 (For Absolute Beginners)-cpPG0bKHYKc.mp4

If you prefer any other search, set --default-search SEARCH_HERE in ~/.config/youtube-dl.conf.

Can you tell us where you looked for this feature? We'll add documentation there.

[blurmonk]

Amazing :)

Thanks