Rofi Tube

An extremely lightweight bash script to browse YouTube.

NOTE: This is not another yt-dlp wrapper. yt-dlp is only used for fetching streaming links and playlist data.

It has its own bash-written YouTube scraper that uses curl to fetch results, making it blazingly fast.

Features

Player Support: MPV and VLC
Modes: Use YouTube or YT-Music mode
Browser Cookies Support: Personalized search results and playlist items
YouTube Scraper: A YouTube scraper written in bash using curl and jq to fetch results. It's super fast.
Cache Management with LRU: Caches the thumbnails and smartly manages them
Store History: Store your search history and dynamically update it based on usage
Playlist Mode: Generate a playlist and play the next item automatically
Playlist Window: Rofi window to show the playlist. Select any item and play it
Settings Window: Configure video quality, codec, playlist limit, etc.
Desktop Notifications: Beautiful desktop notifications with little animations

Clone repo

git clone https://github.com/Harsh-bin/rofi-tube.git

Get YouTube cookies
TIP! Don't do these steps in your main YouTube account. It's best to use a guest account or a browser without an account logged in.
- Install any extension that downloads browser cookies locally, e.g., Get cookies.txt LOCALLY
- Open YouTube in your browser. Play for a while to build your desired feed.
- When you are happy with the feed, click the extension and download the cookies.txt.
- Rename it to youtube-cookies.txt and place it in the script folder.
Make the script executable
```
chmod +x ./rofi-tube.sh
```
Now run the script
```
./rofi-tube.sh
```

All set now, enjoy your Rofi Tube!