Play Embedded Video in External Player¶

Add the following bind to config/binds.lua:

key({}, "v", function (w) 
    local view = w:get_current()
    local uri = view.hovered_uri or view.uri
    if uri then
        luakit.spawn(string.format("urxvt -e cclive -f best --filename-format '%%t.%%s' " 
            .. "--output-dir %q --exec='mplayer \"%%f\"' %q", os.getenv("HOME"), uri))
    end 
end),

This assumes you are using urxvt as a terminal, cclive to download videos and mplayer to play them, but should be pretty easy to adjust for other tools.

Hold your mouse over a youtube link and press 'v' to open a new terminal which shows the download progressing. It will try to download the video in best available quality and save the file to your home directory. When download is complete it will close the terminal and start playing the video.

One of the benefits of using cclive is that once the video is downloaded, pressing 'v' again will simply play the movie, without downloading it again.