Right up there with tools like T383838ani-cli and T383838manga-cli is T383838ytfzf. It can fuzzy-find YouTube content, fetch it, and play it in a local media player.

Scraping results can be slow, so passing T383838--keep-cache will store the last scrape, then T383838--scrape=from-cache can be passed to just pull back the last result set. It pops up a list of the last scrapes, sorted chronologically, but doesn't show a description, so you have to blindly pick one.

I used T383838ani-cli to locate and watch Chinese-language anime for a similar purpose, but it never occurred to me to look for a CLI-based YT viewer.

Tags: cli

created: 2024-06-14

(re)generated: 2026-07-17