dfangx/yt-search-rs

A simple cli tool in rust that prints out search results from youtube

yt-search-rs

A Youtube search CLI tool in Rust. Simply runs a search on a given search term and outputs to stdout. This way, output can be piped or utilized in scripts. This project is in its early stage, so fine tuning and additional CLI options to come.

Build

Build using cargo build --release. You can find the resulting binary in ./target/release/. Copy the yt-search binary into your $PATH.

Usage

yt-search 0.1.0

USAGE:
    yt-search [FLAGS] [OPTIONS] <SEARCH_TERM>

FLAGS:
    -h, --help           Prints help information
    -i, --interactive    Include this flag if you want to be able to select a search result
    -u, --url-only       Include this flag to output the url of selected result only. If not interactive, this does
                         nothing
    -V, --version        Prints version information

OPTIONS:
    -b, --bin <bin>          Specify the binary to be used for interaction. If not provided, uses stdout/stdin
    -f, --filter <filter>    Search filter to apply [default: None]  [possible values: Video, Playlist, None]
    -p, --pages <pages>      Number of pages to search for [default: 3]
    -s, --sort <sort>        Sort to apply [default: Relevance]  [possible values: Relevance, UploadDate, ViewCount,
                             Rating]

ARGS:
    <SEARCH_TERM>    Words used for the search