Mpv: [Feature Request] Play from clipboard

[narimiran]

It would be nice to have an option to play a video/URL which is in clipboard — this would allow making a keybinding/shortcut which would make 'play in MPV' one-click option. See below:

Current workflow

1. Find video
2. Copy URL address
3. Open terminal
4. Type mpv "
5. Paste address
6. Type "
7. When finished, close terminal

Proposed workflow

1. Find video
2. Copy URL address
3. Press a key combination of your choice, which would call mpv --from-clipboard and play the video

New feature

Flag --from-clipboard should be added, which would basically append "<clipboard content>".

If such behaviour is already possible, please let me know because I couldn't find it in the mpv manual.

[j605]

How about using mpv $(xclip -o).

[CounterPillow]

Or if you don't have xclip but xsel installed, you can do mpv $(xsel -bo).

What I think might be useful thought is a play from clipboard keybinding for the pseudo-gui, mostly on Windows, since drag-and-dropping URLs can be a bit awkward for those people.

[narimiran]

Thank you @j605 and @CounterPillow! Your suggestions work like charm!

I'll leave this open for now, but if somebody wants to close it, be my guest.

[shinchiro]

There's existing script for this: https://github.com/jonniek/mpv-scripts/raw/master/appendURL.lua (win/linux/mac)

Just changed last line to mp.add_key_binding("ctrl+v", "appendURL", append)