Catch for notification

plyer fails on Ubuntu with XFCE

download.py

@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
-import yt_dlp as yt
-from plyer import notification
+try:
+    import yt_dlp as yt
+    from plyer import notification
+except:
+    import os
+    script_dir = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__))
+    print("Please install dependances.\n" + 
+          "This can be done with the command 'pip3 install -r " + script_dir + "/requierments.txt'")
 
 def get(yt_url):
     ytdl_options = {
@@ -22,12 +28,15 @@ def get(yt_url):
 
     with yt.YoutubeDL(ytdl_options) as ytdl:
         ytdl.download(yt_url)
-        notification.notify(
-            title = "yt2mp3",
-            message = "Download and conversion complete.",
-            app_icon = None,
-            timeout = 5,
-        )
+        try:
+            notification.notify(
+                title = "yt2mp3",
+                message = "Download and conversion complete.",
+                app_icon = None,
+                timeout = 3,
+            )
+        except:
+            print("Notification failed.")
 
 
 

yt2mp3.py

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ help_epilog = ("This script is very dependent on yt-dlp.\n"+
 
 cmd_option_set = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Backup YouTube channels.', epilog=help_epilog)
 cmd_option_set.add_argument('--version', '-v', dest='print_version', action='store_true', help='Print the current version number.')
-cmd_option_set.add_argument(dest='url_to_convert', help="The URL of the YouTube video you're converting to a local mp3.")
+cmd_option_set.add_argument(dest='url_to_convert', default='', metavar="YT URL", nargs=argparse.REMAINDER, help="The URL of the YouTube video you're converting to a local mp3.")
 cmd_options = cmd_option_set.parse_args()
 
 if (cmd_options.print_version):