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I have a similar scriptlet that I use to open YouTube URLs in mpv, using just and wl-clipboard... I just copy the URL and press my G1 key (it has a keybind of
just yt-pasteattached) which launches the yt-paste snippet below, reads the url from the clipboard, parses it and passes it to mpv.