A simple youtube bookmark player with raku, mpv and dmenu

Introduction This document explains in a pedagogical way how to write a simple music/video bookmark player with the programming language raku. I often find myself discovering nice music on youtube and wanting to recover or replay it later. Of course I could use a bookmark manager but I want an easy fuzzy searching and storing the links in an org-mode file. Instead of writing quickly the script and adding it to my script collections, I thought this time I can show how convenient and fun raku can be in scripting these kind of small applications....

February 11, 2021 · 6 min · 1200 words · Alejandro Gallo