ytwatch.sh - For when you don't want to deal with the Youtube interface. Script to automatically download a Youtube video then open it in VLC media player.

ytwatch.sh

#!/bin/bash

#This requires:
#    youtube-dl (pip install youtube-dl)
#    vlc        (sudo apt-get install vlc)
#
# Usage:
#
#    ytwatch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMH0bHeiRNg
#


# Sets up a variable to track where we were at the start of all this
ORIGINAL_DIR=$(echo $PWD)
ORIGINAL_DIR+="/"

# Sets up temporary directory for the conversion process.
TEMPDIR=$(mktemp -d)

cd $TEMPDIR

youtube-dl -o "ytvideo.%(ext)s" $1

vlc ytvideo*

rm ytvideo*

cd $ORIGINAL_DIR

rm -rf $TEMPDIR