Script to monitor clipboard for a new Youtube URL and plays the video when the URL does not match the existing URL. Also does not run when an mpv instance is already running.

README.md

youloop

Script that monitors the clipboard and play Youtube videos.

make install to copy service file to /etc/systemd/user/ and enable it for ths user.

Makefile

install:
	sudo cp youloop.service /etc/systemd/user/
	systemctl enable --user youloop.service
	systemctl start --user youloop.service

youloop

#!/bin/bash
function loop(){
	sleep 2
	url=`xclip -selection clipboard -o` 
	if [[ `cat /tmp/youtubeurl` == "$url" ]]
	then
		return
	fi
	if [[ $url == *"youtube"* && `pgrep mpv` == "" ]]
	then
		echo "$url" > /tmp/youtubeurl
		mpv --hwdec vaapi --ytdl-format=bestvideo[ext=mp4]+bestaudio[ext=m4a] "$url"
	fi
}
while(true)
do
	loop
done

youloop.service

[Unit]
Description=Service to monitor for Youtube URLs and play them

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/bin/youloop
ExecStop=killall youloop

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target