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woefe / ytcc

Command line tool to keep track of your favorite playlists on YouTube and many other places.
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Use short URLs to free space in the terminal #107

Closed zoidby closed 2 years ago

zoidby commented 2 years ago

Hello everyone,

the video URL displayed by setting: video_attrs = playlists, title, duration, url Currently looks like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oavMtUWDBTM

Wouldn’t it be a good idea to use youtubes short url style instead? https://youtu.be/oavMtUWDBTM This is considerably shorter and frees space in the terminal.

In relation i’d like to see the minimum size of the playlists column increased. It’s currently only 9 characters before characters are omitted. This can be confusing if you are subscribed to secondary channels with similar names. Ideally this could be adjusted via the config file but for me it would be enough to add the 15 free characters from the shorter URLs so that the new minimum would be 24 characters.

woefe commented 2 years ago

I agree that the narrow columns on small screens are missing information. I've implemented a "plain" output format which is then used in the preview window of ytccf.sh (see https://github.com/woefe/ytcc/pull/108 ). Cut-off values can be shown in the preview window of ytccf.sh

woefe commented 2 years ago

I'm not to keen on messing with the table / column width calculations neither replacing the URLs with shortened ones.