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termux-url-opener
#!/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/bin/bash
#
# This is a termux-url-opener script to do diffrent tasks on my Android phone
#
#
#
# How to use this script
#############################
#
# Install git
# ➜ ~ pkg install git
#
# clone this script
# ➜ ~ git clone https://gist.github.com/dc35e8df3dc41d126683f18fe44ebe17.git $HOME/termux-url-opener
#
# Create the bin directory
# ➜ ~ mkdir bin
#
# Link the script
# ➜ ~ ln -s $HOME/termux-url-opener/termux-url-opener $HOME/bin/termux-url-opener
# ➜ ~ ln -s $HOME/termux-url-opener/termux-url-opener $HOME/bin/termux-file-editor
#
# run the following command to enable the termux storage features
# ➜ termux-setup-storage
#
# https://wiki.termux.com/wiki/Termux-setup-storage
#
# the script downloads the needed tools on first use.
for PACKAGE in wget ffmpeg python
do
which $PACKAGE > /dev/null
if [ ! $? -eq 0 ]; then
echo "Installing $PACKAGE"
pkg install $PACKAGE
fi
done
which transmission-daemon > /dev/null
if [ ! $? -eq 0 ]; then
pkg install transmission
fi
for PYPI_PKG in yt-dlp scdl
do
pip show $PYPI_PKG
if [ ! $? -eq 0 ]; then
pip install $PYPI_PKG
fi
done
if [! -w $HOME/Downloads ]; then #create Downloads Link for transmission
ln -s $HOME/storage/downloads $HOME/Downloads
fi
url=$1
echo "What should I do with $url ?"
echo "y) download youtube video to movies-folder"
echo "u) download youtube video and convert it to mp3 (music-folder)"
echo "s) download with scdl (soundcloud)"
echo "t) download torrent"
echo "w) wget file to download-folder"
echo "x) nothing"
read CHOICE
case $CHOICE in
y)
yt-dlp -o "/storage/emulated/0/Movies/%(title)s.%(ext)s" $url
;;
u)
echo "Artist"
read artist
echo "Title"
read title
echo "Album"
read album
yt-dlp --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --output "/storage/emulated/0/Music/$artist-$title.%(ext)s" $url
mid3v2 -a $artist -t $title -A $album /storage/emulated/0/Music/$artist-$title.mp3
;;
s)
scdl -l $url --path /storage/emulated/0/Music
echo "s need some work"
;;
w)
cd ~/storage/downloads
wget $url
;;
t)
echo "running torrents"
transmission-remote 127.0.0.1 -l
if [ ! $? eq 0 ]; then # start daemon if necessary
transmission-daemon
sleep 3
fi
echo "use transmission-remote to manage your downloads (read the manpage)"
transmission-remote 127.0.0.1 -a $(cat $url)
;;
x)
echo "bye"
;;
esac
@titidelain
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Good evening. Thank you for your comment. So I placed the orders in a terminal. So I have the video download in the Youtube folder. On the other hand the Youtube folder is on the phone's memory and not on the external card (mkdir -p / sdcard / Youtube ???), it is perhaps due to the particular management of Android? But it works can you tell me what led you to have me test this "simplified" code?
Thank you

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canxx99 commented Jan 21, 2021

@titidelain
/sdcard on Android is the command used to use the phone's internal memory. The /sdcard here is not showing an external card.
So /sdcard is your phone's internal storage directory.

/storage/emulated/0/ = /sdcard

These two commands point to the same directory.

@titidelain
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Hi.
Thank you.
I am not a programming expert. Can you explain the command "echo 'youtube-dl $ 1'> ~ / bin / termux-url-opener" to me. I understand the command "echo" which will "write" the line "youtube-dl $ 1" but this $ 1 that I do not understand. I will also see to better understand the "termux-url-opener" file. And if I understand your code correctly, it is nothing more or less than creating a config file for youtube-dl?
Thank you.

@titidelain
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I answer myself. $ 1 represents the url of the link, well from what I understand. From then on we could also write:
$ apt update && apt upgrade -y
$ apt install python -y
$ pip install --upgrade pip
$ pip install youtube-dl
$ mkdir -p /sdcard/Youtube
$ mkdir ~/bin
$ echo 'youtube-dl --no-mtime -o /sdcard/Youtube/%(title)s.%(ext)s -f "best [height <= 1080]"' $1' > ~ / bin / termux- url-opener

Are we not using the youtube-dl "config" file? That's right, isn't it?
Thank you.

@titidelain
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Good evening. It's good my script works. Resuming what I had written, and with your answers, I resumed the script on my phone. I noticed a lot of writing errors because of .... my bluetooth keyboard. He repeated characters to me !!! I rewrote with the virtual keyboard of the phone by simplifying and it works!
Thanks to those who answered me, problem solved!

@nasseef20
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Hello,
Since I cannot do a pull request so I'm suggesting that you add this function right after url=$1:

function yt_shorts(){
    if [[ "$url" == *"shorts"* ]]; then
        url=${url%?feature=share}
        url=${url#https://youtube.com/shorts/}
        url="https://youtube.com/watch?v="$url
    fi
}

And then call yt_shorts right before the youtube-dl call in switch cases y) and u).

Reason: youtube-dl cannot work on "youtube shorts" links directly, so some modification is needed given that the url is from a youtube short video.

@Dan1jel
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Dan1jel commented Sep 17, 2022

I'm not OP but could you maybe do a gits so i could see how it should be?

@nasseef20
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ghost commented Feb 20, 2023

I have a problem where s the script bro , sorry I am new In this field , Problem = when I give command nvim termux-url-opener
Here comes a interface with purple ~ sign .
I don't what to do next .pls sir tell me.

@LordH3lmchen
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Neovim works like vi or vim.

Use your preferred Editor. nano is probably simpler.

Instead of youtube_dl you could use yt-dlp its a fork that works better.

If you don't want to copy pasta the script. Install git and clone the gist.

@TehDomic
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Does anyone know any forks that use pre-installed bash instead of zsh?

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LordH3lmchen commented Mar 20, 2023

Does anyone know any forks that use pre-installed bash instead of zsh?

I think it should work with bash as it is. Just replace the zsh with bash. There is nothing zsh specific in this script. Zsh and Bash are POSIX shells.

#!/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/bin/bash

I've updated the script.

I switched to yt-dlp. It is more reliable and works with more websites. The script installs needed tools automatically now. I've added transmission as option t) in the script

Also if you install the script with git you can update it with "git pull" to the latest version. I modified the instructions to use git. This should eliminate the problems with encoding issues. (Who uses MS Windows anyway?)

install git & copy the git clone command from the instructions o a termux session

@TehDomic
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Cool, I'll give it a try this week and see if I love it. Thanks for the script ♥

@naranyala
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open source is awesome

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