PornHub ASCII Player

asciiplayer

#!/bin/bash
#PornHub ASCII player 1.0 
#Copyright Tobias Girstmair
#Licenced under GPLv3 (GNU Public Licence)
#iSticktoit.net
#Do not remove this notice

progName="PornHub / YouPorn ASCII Player v1.0"
playMode=0 # 0=vlc, 1=vlc new window, 2=mplayer, 3=mplayer new window
logFile=/dev/null

setSearch() { #params: 1=lastsearch
	page=1
	isLastPage=0

	while : ; do
		exec 3<&1 #avoid tempfiles
		search=$(dialog --title "$progName"\
			--ok-label "Search" \
			--cancel-label "Quit" \
			--inputbox "Enter Search Term(s):" 8 52 "$1" 2>&1 1>&3)
		[[ $? -ne 0 ]] && exit
		exec 3<&-

		[[ $search == "" ]] && continue
	break;done
}

setCategory() { #params: 1=site
	page=1
	isLastPage=0

	case $1 in
		*ph) local categories=$(curl "http://www.pornhub.com/webmasters/categories" 2>$logFile);;
		*yp) local categories=$(curl "http://www.youporn.com/api/webmasters/categories/" 2>$logFile);;
	esac

	local categoryList=$(echo "$categories"|grep -Po '"category":.*?[^\\]"},')

	local arr=()
	while read -r categoryItem; do
		categoryItem=${categoryItem#'"category":"'}
		categoryItem=${categoryItem%'"},'}
		arr=("${arr[@]}" ${categoryItem// /%20} "$categoryItem" off)
	done <<< "$categoryList"
	exec 3<&1

	category=$(dialog --title "$progName" \
		--ok-label "OK" \
		--cancel-label "Quit" \
		--radiolist "Select a category to search in (SPACE selects, RETURN confirms)" 15 50 8 \
		ALLCAT "All Categories" on "${arr[@]}" 2>&1 1>&3)
	[[ $? -ne 0 ]] && exit
	exec 3<&-
}

setSite() {
	page=1
	isLastPage=0
	category=ALLCAT

	exec 3<&1
	site=$(dialog --title "$progName" \
		--ok-label "Search" \
		--cancel-label "Quit" \
		--help-button --help-label "Categories" \
		--menu "Search on..." 15 50 8 \
		ph "PornHub" \
		yp "YouPorn" 2>&1 1>&3)
	[[ $? -eq 1 ]] && exit
	exec 3<&-
	if [[ $site == HELP* ]] ; then
		setCategory "$site"
	fi
}

doSearch() { #params: 1=lastsearch
	setSearch "$1"
	setSite
}

getVideoUrl_Pornhub() { #params: 1=videoid
	local url=$(curl -L "http://www.pornhub.com/embed/$1" 2>$logFile |head -128 | tail -1)
	url=${url#*: \'}
	url=${url%\'*}
	echo $url
}

getVideoUrl_YouPorn() { #params: 1=videoid
	local url=$(curl -L "http://www.youporn.com/embed/$1/" 2>$logFile |head -112 | tail -1)
	url=${url#*'<video src="'}
	url=${url%%'\"*'}
	url=${url//'&amp;'/'&'}
	echo $url
}

playVideoId() { #params: 1=videoid 2=site
	case $2 in
		*ph) local url=$(getVideoUrl_Pornhub $1);;
		*yp) local url=$(getVideoUrl_YouPorn $1);;
	esac

	# they filter useragents, we fuck up their statistics on pornhub.com/insights ;)
	case $playMode in
		0) CACA_DRIVER=ncurses cvlc -V caca --http-user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:36.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/36.0" "$url" 2>$logFile & ;;
		1) cvlc -V caca --http-user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:36.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/36.0" "$url" 2>$logFile & ;;
		2) CACA_DRIVER=ncurses mplayer -vo caca -quiet -http-header-fields 'User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:36.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/36.0' "$url" 2>$logFile & ;;
		3) mplayer -vo caca -quiet -http-header-fields 'User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:36.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/36.0' "$url" 2>$logFile & ;;
	esac
	local pid=$! #return PID

	read -n1 -r -p " Video is loading... `echo -en $'\n '`Press any key to quit..." key
	kill -9 $pid
	wait $pid 2>$logFile #discard killmsg
}

getSearchResults() { #params: 1=searchjson 2=page 3=islastpage
	local videoIdList=$(echo "$1"|grep -Po '"video_id":.*?[^\\]",')
	local videoTitleList=$(echo "$1"|grep -Po '"title":.*?[^\\]",')

	local arr=()
	#iterate over lists to fill array 
        [[ $2 -gt 1 ]] && arr=("${arr[@]}" PREV "Previous Page")
        exec 6<<<"$videoTitleList"
        while read -r vId; do
                read -r vTitle <&6
                local videoId=${vId#'"video_id":"'}
                videoId=${videoId%'",'}
                local videoTitle=${vTitle#'"title":"'}
                videoTitle=${videoTitle%'",'}
                arr=("${arr[@]}" $videoId "$videoTitle")
        done <<< "$videoIdList"
        exec 6<&-
        [[ $3 -ne 1 ]] && arr=("${arr[@]}" NEXT "Next Page")

	exec 3<&1
	local selectedItem=$(dialog --clear --backtitle "(C) Tobias Girstmair - iSticktoit.net" \
		--ok-label "Play" \
		--cancel-label "Quit" \
		--help-button --help-label "New Search" \
		--title "$progName" \
		--menu "Select on a Video below" 17 60 10 "${arr[@]}" 2>&1 1>&3)
	exec 3<&-

	echo $selectedItem 1>&2
}

getJson() { #params: 1=search 2=category 3=page 4=site
	case $4 in
		*ph) results=$(curl "http://www.pornhub.com/webmasters/search?search=${1// /%20}&category=$2&page=$3&thumbsize=small" 2>$logFile);;
		*yp) results=$(curl "http://www.youporn.com/api/webmasters/search/?search=${1// /%20}&category=$2&page=$3&thumbsize=small" 2>$logFile);;
	esac

	echo "$results"|grep -Po '"code":.*?[^\\]",' >$logFile
	if [[ $? -eq 0 ]] ; then
		if [[ $3 -eq 1 ]] ; then
			#return 2 #no results
			dialog --title "$progName" \
				--ok-label "New Search" \
				--extra-button --extra-label "Select Category" \
				--cancel-label "Set Site" \
				--yesno "No results.\nWhat now?!" 7 52
			case $? in
				0) doSearch $1 && getJson $search $category 1 $site;;
				3) setCategory $4 && getJson $1 $category 1 $4;;
				1) setSite && getJson $1 $category 1 $site;;
			esac
		elif [[ $3 -gt 1 ]] ; then
			local isLastPage=1
			local page=$3
			page=$((page-1))
			getJson $1 $2 $page $4
			return 1 #last page
		else
			return 0 #ok
		fi
	fi
	#return 0=ok, 1=LastPage, 2=noresults
}


#global vars: 
#  search: Search text
#  site: PornHub or YouPorn
#  category
#  page

doSearch

getJson "$search" "$category" $page "$site"

while : ; do
	exec 3<&1
	retval=$(getSearchResults "$results" $page $isLastPage 2>&1 1>&3)
	[[ $retval == "" ]] && exit
	exec 3<&-

	case $retval in
		NEXT)
			page=$((page+1))
			getJson "$search" "$category" $page "$site"
			isLastPage=$?
			[[ $isLastPage -eq 1 ]] && page=$((page-1))
			continue;;

		PREV)
			page=$((page-1))
			getJson "$search" "$category" $page "$site"
			isLastPage=0
			continue;;

		HELP*) # new search button
			doSearch "$search"
			getJson "$search" "$category" $page "$site"
			isLastPage=0
			continue;;

		*) #video
			playVideoId $retval "$site"
	esac

	clear
break;done

Hilarious! xD Stumbled across it on your blog-site, just a shame I cannot get it working unfortunately

I wanted to get this working too, but haven't been able. I think there might be a problem in getSearchResults() around line 131

for video into ascii there is https://www.npmjs.com/package/ascii-video
which uses https://www.npmjs.com/package/image-to-ascii and https://www.npmjs.com/package/cli-color (and ffmpeg to slice frames into images). you can break down the functionality to fit your needs.