YouTube-Search

A simple terminal app that helps you find Youtube videos (without API) and open them using mpv/yt-dlp.

My modest attempt to port ytfzf to Windows.

Made with F# and Thuja.

For the raw powershell version see this branch.

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Prerequisites

• PowerShell 7+
• chafa (thumbnails viewer)
• mpv (video and audio player)
• yt-dlp
• Terminal with the sixel graphics support (e.g. Windows Terminal Preview 1.22+)

You can easily install all the dependencies with Scoop.

scoop install chafa mpv yt-dlp

Installation

scoop install https://raw.githubusercontent.com/HenryKovalevsky/yts/refs/heads/master/scoop/yts.json

Usage

Search video:

yts <search>