Post #2176256

I have a similar scriptlet that I use to open YouTube URLs in mpv, using [just](https://github.com/casey/just) and [wl-clipboard](https://github.com/bugaevc/wl-clipboard)... I just copy the URL and press my G1 key (it has a keybind of `just yt-paste` attached) which launches the yt-paste snippet below, reads the url from the clipboard, parses it and passes it to mpv. ```bash # Parse the clipboard for YouTube URLs and open them in mpv yt-paste: #!/usr/bin/env bash YOUTUBE_URL_REGEX="^https:\/\/(www\.youtube\.com\/watch\?v=|youtu\.be\/)[a-zA-Z0-9_-]{11}" YOUTUBE_PLAYLIST_URL_REGEX="^https:\/\/(www\.youtube\.com\/playlist\?list=)[a-zA-Z0-9_-]+" YOUTUBE_SHORTS_URL_REGEX="^https:\/\/(www\.youtube\.com\/shorts\/)[a-zA-Z0-9_-]{11}" # Youtube URL if [[ "$(wl-paste)" =~ $YOUTUBE_URL_REGEX ]]; then echo "Opening valid YouTube URL" >&2 notify-send --app-name="YT-Paste" --icon=mpv --transient "Opening YouTube URL" mpv "$(wl-paste)" # Youtube Playlist URL elif [[ "$(wl-paste)" =~ $YOUTUBE_PLAYLIST_URL_REGEX ]]; then echo "Opening valid YouTube Playlist URL" >&2 notify-send --app-name="YT-Paste" --icon=mpv --transient "Opening YouTube Playlist URL" mpv "$(wl-paste)" # Youtube Short URL elif [[ "$(wl-paste)" =~ $YOUTUBE_SHORTS_URL_REGEX ]]; then echo "Opening valid YouTube Shorts URL" >&2 notify-send --app-name="YT-Paste" --icon=mpv --transient "Opening YouTube Shorts URL" mpv "$(wl-paste)" # No Match else echo "Clipboard does not contain a valid YouTube URL" >&2 notify-send --app-name="YT-Paste" --icon=mpv --transient "Whoops!" "Clipboard does not contain a valid YouTube URL" exit 1 fi ```