Commands config

The commands config file decides what options (that will run a certain command on select) to be display in the video and playlist page respectively, it is located in ~/.config/youtube-tui/commands.yml.

Example commands config

launch_command: loadpage library ;; flush ;; history clear ;; key Esc 0 ;; key Up 0 ;; key Up 0 ;; key Left 0 ;; key Enter 0 # the key commands select the searchbar on launch
video:
- Reload updated video: run rm '~/.cache/youtube-tui/info/${id}.json' ;; video ${id} # remove the cached info first, then reload the page
- Play video: parrun ${video-player} '${embed-url}'
- Play audio: mpv stop ;; resume ;; mpv sprop loop-file no ;; mpv loadfile '${embed-url}' ;; echo mpv Player started
- Play audio (loop): mpv stop ;; resume ;; mpv sprop loop-file inf ;; mpv loadfile '${embed-url}' ;; echo mpv Player started
- View channel: channel ${channel-id}
- Subscribe to channel: sync ${channel-id}
- Open in browser: parrun ${browser} '${url}'
- Toggle bookmark: togglemark ${id}
- Save video to library: bookmark ${id} ;; run rm -rf '${save-path}${id}.*' ;; parrun ${terminal-emulator} ${youtube-downloader} '${embed-url}' -o '${save-path}%(title)s[%(id)s].%(ext)s'
- Save audio to library: bookmark ${id} ;; parrun rm -rf '${save-path}${id}.*' ;; parrun ${terminal-emulator} ${youtube-downloader} '${embed-url}' -x -o '${save-path}%(title)s[%(id)s].%(ext)s'
- 'Mode: ${provider}': switchprovider

# ...

The few required fields are:

• video
• saved_video
• playlist
• saved_playlist
• channel

Env variables

Notice that a lot of the commands contains the ${label} pattern, this actually replaces the text with the env variables set in main.yml, or is added by the current page (video or playlist) on-the-go.

Env reference

Does not include custom env set in main.yml.