I needed to get a list of youtube links from a list of song titles. Thanks to this reddit post I was able to get what I needed. I did have to update it to use yt which is a fork of the referenced mps-youtube package.

After installing yewtube per https://github.com/mps-youtube/yewtube#installation I was able to get what I wanted with this one-liner:

while read song; do echo $song; yt search "$song", i 1, q|grep -i link| awk -F ': ' '{ print $2 }'; done < playlist

The above command looks at a playlist which is only artist & song names, prints the song name to the console for reference, then uses yewtube to search youtube for that song name and select the first result, then grab the link and print it to the screen.

I had to double check that the correct version of the song was selected, but for the most part it did exactly what I needed!