--search feature

[aurium]

Allows the user to search for videos by the command line.

Basic usage example (proposal)

$ youtube-dl --search "Larry David"
youtu.be/G-3fCCL0ASE
Larry David Explains His Parking Lot Meltdown - CONAN on TBS
by Team Coco - 2013-10-11 - Tags: Larry, TBS
Larry David recently had a meltdown in parking garage, as it turns out he's not a good swiper.

youtu.be/DbvbnzQFjzw
Larry David Reacts to Jennifer Lawrence’s Crush on Him – The New Yorker Festival
by The New Yorker - 2015-01-02 - Tags: Larry David, Jennifer Lawrence, Love
In a recent interview, Jennifer Lawrence proudly stated that she has a crush on Larry David. David Remnick asks him for his ...

youtu.be/d3ji7BekPUw
Larry David Pissed Off - Curb Your Enthusiasm Season 7
by duanew86 - 2013-11-12 - Tags: (none)
Best moments of Larry David getting pissed off of season 7 of Curb Your Enthusiasm.

Entry structure:

line 1: smart minimal url to use with youtube-dl
line 2: video title
line 3: meta-data
line 4: description

• Good for humans and for scripts;
• May use terminal colors. Example: blue (as default web links) to the line 1; gray to line 3.

Related Parameters

--sources=<comma separated list> — where to search by videos. Youtube is default, "all" is valid and means "all".
--felling-lucky — print the search result and downloads the first found.
--felling-lucky=<number> — print the search result and downloads the first found.
--felling-lucky=all — print the search result and downloads all the found list.

Example with --sources

$ youtube-dl --search "Larry David" --sources=youtube,vimeo
youtu.be/G-3fCCL0ASE
Larry David Explains His Parking Lot Meltdown - CONAN on TBS
by Team Coco - 2013-10-11 - Tags: Larry, TBS
Larry David recently had a meltdown in parking garage, as it turns out he's not a good swiper.

youtu.be/DbvbnzQFjzw
Larry David Reacts to Jennifer Lawrence’s Crush on Him – The New Yorker Festival
by The New Yorker - 2015-01-02 - Tags: Larry David, Jennifer Lawrence, Love
In a recent interview, Jennifer Lawrence proudly stated that she has a crush on Larry David. David Remnick asks him for his ...

vimeo.com/9430708
A Special Welcome Message from Larry David
by GigglechickInteractive - 2010-08-09 - Tags: (none)
Larry David welcomes you to Jeff Garlin's website

vimeo.com/15817243
Jews for Jesus Larry King Live
by Jews for Jesus - 2011-08-09 - Tags: Jesus
in 2000 David Brickner was invited to represent Jews for Jesus on the Larry King Live show. This debate has been ongoing for 2000 years.

[yan12125]

Searching on YouTube can be achieved via:

youtube-dl "ytsearch:Keyword"

Vimeo search is not implemented, though. Searching is a site-specific feature, and currently only Google Search, YouTube and Yahoo are supported.

[aurium]

@yan12125 i know this. :-)
I'm proposing something very different here.

[dstftw]

That's out of scope of youtube-dl from my pov. youtube-dl is a downloader in the first place and not a search engine.

[jaimeMF]

I'm with @dstftw, this can be implemented in an external tool that simply calls youtube-dl as needed.