Documentation: Unclear on how to set it up

[Rafee-M]

Hi, I am a bit new to this. I moved all the scripts to C:\Users\User1\AppData\Roaming\mpv\mpv\scripts and I opened mpv. I can't seem to use all the features you've mentioned in the readme and I'd really appreciate it if you could tell me on how to set it up

[CogentRedTester]

All the scripts in this repository are separate with individual documentation at the top of each file.

[CogentRedTester]

Also, the base config folder mpv will use by default is C:\Users\User1\AppData\Roaming\mpv\scripts. If you've placed mpv.exe in that folder, then yes it could work, but using the mpv directoy next to the exe is considered very low priority and may be removed in the future. If the exe is in that folder you should either move it, or change the config directory to C:\Users\User1\AppData\Roaming\mpv\portable_config\.

[Rafee-M]

Thanks a lot for clearing that up! It works now.

[fuguesoft]

Debian 13.1 (trixie)
swayWM 1.21.0

Just installed the script and I can tell it's doing... something.
Whenever I try either google's API or Invidious I get a 403 Forbidden error.

[ffmpeg] https: HTTP error 403 Forbidden
Failed to open https://rr8---sn-bvvbaxivnuxq5uu-p5il.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?expire=1762183685&ei=pXUIacDGOOysy_sP35aduAU&ip=[IPADDRESS]&id=[REDACTED]&itag=251&source=youtube&requiressl=yes&xpc=[foo]&mm=31%2C29&mn=sn-bvvbaxivnuxq5uu-p5il%2Csn-q4flrnez&ms=au%2Crdu&mv=m&mvi=8&pl=42&rms=au%2Cau&initcwndbps=3280000&bui=[string]&spc=6b0G_FkOcR4ohYpXugmCPqyZfUN8t3QmllKSKAqBlLmut6m4fw&vprv=1&svpuc=1&mime=audio%2Fwebm&ns=RIpvr-rEesBE4lWoKJzshe8Q&rqh=1&gir=yes&clen=22106055&dur=1434.541&lmt=1761990700330557&mt=1762161689&fvip=5&keepalive=yes&lmw=1&fexp=51557447%2C51565115%2C51565681%2C51580970&c=TVHTML5&sefc=1&txp=4532534&n=YUMPvcLGb4McUPJ&sparams=expire%2Cei%2Cip%2Cid%2Citag%2Csource%2Crequiressl%2Cxpc%2Cbui%2Cspc%2Cvprv%2Csvpuc%2Cmime%2Cns%2Crqh%2Cgir%2Cclen%2Cdur%2Clmt&sig=[bar]&lsparams=cps%2Cmet%2Cmh%2Cmm%2Cmn%2Cms%2Cmv%2Cmvi%2Cpl%2Crms%2Cinitcwndbps&lsig=[baz].
EDL: Could not open source file 'https://rr8---sn-bvvbaxivnuxq5uu-p5il.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?expire=1762183685&ei=pXUIacDGOOysy_sP35aduAU&ip=[IPADDRESS]&id=[REDACTED]&itag=251&source=youtube&requiressl=yes&xpc=[foo]&mm=31%2C29&mn=sn-bvvbaxivnuxq5uu-p5il%2Csn-q4flrnez&ms=au%2Crdu&mv=m&mvi=8&pl=42&rms=au%2Cau&initcwndbps=3280000&bui=[string]&spc=6b0G_FkOcR4ohYpXugmCPqyZfUN8t3QmllKSKAqBlLmut6m4fw&vprv=1&svpuc=1&mime=audio%2Fwebm&ns=RIpvr-rEesBE4lWoKJzshe8Q&rqh=1&gir=yes&clen=22106055&dur=1434.541&lmt=1761990700330557&mt=1762161689&fvip=5&keepalive=yes&lmw=1&fexp=51557447%2C51565115%2C51565681%2C51580970&c=TVHTML5&sefc=1&txp=4532534&n=YUMPvcLGb4McUPJ&sparams=expire%2Cei%2Cip%2Cid%2Citag%2Csource%2Crequiressl%2Cxpc%2Cbui%2Cspc%2Cvprv%2Csvpuc%2Cmime%2Cns%2Crqh%2Cgir%2Cclen%2Cdur%2Clmt&sig=[bar]&lsparams=cps%2Cmet%2Cmh%2Cmm%2Cmn%2Cms%2Cmv%2Cmvi%2Cpl%2Crms%2Cinitcwndbps&lsig=[baz]'.
No video or audio streams selected.
Exiting... (Errors when loading file)

I'm running this from the command line and in both cases mpv refuses to open a normal youtube link.

I've set up my conf file in either of two ways but never both simultaneously:

invidious

# The default config file for youtube-search
# Available at: https://github.com/CogentRedTester/mpv-scripts

# API key for the Google Youtube API
API_key=<my-api-key-without-quotes>

# number of search results to show in the list
num_results=40

# the url to send API calls to
API_path=https://invidious.f5.si/api/v1/
# use invidious API calls
invidious=yes

# attempt this API if the default fails
fallback_API_path=
fallback_invidious=yes

# the url to load videos from
frontend=https://invidious.f5.si/

google

# The default config file for youtube-search
# Available at: https://github.com/CogentRedTester/mpv-scripts

# API key for the Google Youtube API
API_key=<my-api-key-without-quotes>

# number of search results to show in the list
num_results=40

# the url to send API calls to
API_path=https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/

# use invidious API calls
invidious=no

# attempt this API if the default fails
fallback_API_path=https://googleapis.com/youtube/v3/
fallback_invidious=no

# the url to load videos from
frontend=https://www.youtube.com/

This is what my $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/mpv/ looks like:

..
├── mpv.conf
├── script-modules
│   ├── scroll-list.lua
│   └── user-input-module.lua
├── script-opts
│   ├── mpv-clipper.conf
│   ├── SmartCopyPaste.conf
│   ├── streamsave.conf
│   ├── thumbfast.conf
│   └── youtube_search.conf
├── scripts
│   ├── mpv-clipper.lua
│   ├── SmartCopyPaste.lua
│   ├── streamsave.lua
│   ├── thumbfast.lua
│   ├── user-input.lua
│   └── youtube-search.lua
└── to_delete
    └── copy-permalink.lua

5 directories, 16 files

Before I added the API keys, I could at least get the search menu dialogue to
appear in mpv. Searching however, seemed to return no visible result. So I read
more of the config file parameters and attempted to configure it based on what I
could see.

After I did this, I notice that mpv could no longer play youtube links via:

mpv <link>

It would always return 403 forbidden.

I have pinpointed the issue to be the youtube_search.conf script when
configured with the API settings as the lua script at least pretends to search
when I delete or otherwise reset the config to default.

What can I do?

Thanks for reading

E: Had to update yt-dlp. Disregard.
Very cool script! Thank you!

[fuguesoft]

Was able to get this script working with no API call
https://github.com/willswats/mpv-youtube-search
It just auto appends to or replaces the current playlist with the 50 or user defined number of videos it returns

E: Tried yours again after updating and changing the config to this

# The default config file for youtube-search
# Available at: https://github.com/CogentRedTester/mpv-scripts

# API key for the Google Youtube API
API_key=<my-api-key>

# number of search results to show in the list
num_results=40

# the url to send API calls to
API_path=https://inv.perditum.com/api/v1

# use invidious API calls
invidious=yes

# attempt this API if the default fails
fallback_API_path=
fallback_invidious=yes

# the url to load videos from
frontend=https://inv.perditum.com/