YouTube VLC Seekable Streaming with YouTube-DL

# place in ~/.bashrc
# replace ~/scripts/ with the directory where you placed the script
yt() {
  (python /home/allie/scripts/youtube.py "$1" </dev/null &>/dev/null &)
}

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# youtube.py
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import sys
import subprocess
import youtube_dl

player_run = False
p = None

def hook(status):
    global player_run, p

    if not player_run:
        player_run = True
        p = subprocess.Popen(['vlc', status['filename']])

opts = {
    'format': 'best',
    'nopart': True,
    'progress_hooks': [hook],
    'verbose': True,
    'outtmpl': '/tmp/%(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s',
}

with youtube_dl.YoutubeDL(opts) as ydl:
    ydl.download([ sys.argv[1] ])

p.wait()