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https://github.com/Jocomol/newsboat_video_downloader

I sure love the mix of newsboat+mpv+youtube-dl to watch videos from my favourite creators directly from my command line. But sometimes I want to download them beforehand and have them sorted into different folders. Here is the script to do exactly that.
https://github.com/Jocomol/newsboat_video_downloader

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Host: GitHub
URL: https://github.com/Jocomol/newsboat_video_downloader
Owner: Jocomol
License: gpl-3.0
Created: 2021-06-06T17:37:49.000Z (about 3 years ago)
Default Branch: main
Last Pushed: 2023-09-22T14:37:10.000Z (9 months ago)
Last Synced: 2024-01-26T10:35:07.380Z (5 months ago)
Language: Shell
Size: 23.4 KB
Stars: 18
Watchers: 2
Forks: 1
Open Issues: 0
Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE

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cli-apps - newsboat_video_downloader - Downloads content from YouTube and have them sorted into different folders depending on the channel. (<a name="transfer"></a>Data transfer)
awesome-cli-apps - newsboat_video_downloader - Downloads content from YouTube and have them sorted into different folders depending on the channel. (<a name="transfer"></a>Data transfer)

README

# newsboat_video_downloader
I sure love the mix of newsboat+mpv+yt-dlp to watch videos from my favourite creators directly from my command line. But sometimes I want to download them beforehand and have them sorted into different folders. Here is the script to do exactly that.

## Installation
Clone this directory and put the bash script in a directory you've got in your `$PATH`.

## Configure
```bash
DATABASELOC="$XDG_DATA_HOME/newsboat/cache.db"
WEBSITEURLLIST="$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/newsboat/websitelist"
VIDEOFOLDER="$HOME/Videos"
```

### DATABASELOC
The location of your cache.db. The newsboat default is `~/.newsboat/cache.db`.

### WEBSITELISTURL
A file where you define from which websites you want to download the videos from. Put this file wherever you like.

#### Example
```
https://www.youtube.com
https://www.odysee.com
```

### VIDEOFOLDER
The directory where you want your Videos to be downloaded in. Default is: `~/Videos/`.

## Usage
Just execute the script and the videos will be downloaded in your configured directory and sorted after the creator of the video.

```
usage: newsboat_video_downloader [-h] [-a AUTHOR] [-m]

optional arguments:
-h, show this help message and exit
-a, AUTHOR Download only the videos by a specific creator
-m, Enabled the marking mode which will mark the videos as watched in newsboat
-d, Enables the detox mode and will execute detox in the video directory after downloading
```

## Personal preferences
I've implemented a few personal preferences directly as I don't expect many people to use this script.

### File locations
See chapter `Configure`.

### yt-dlp
I've configured yt-dlp to download the videos as mp4 and embed the thumbnails if you dont want that just change.
```
# newsboat_video_downloader.sh
59: yt-dlp --format mp4 --embed-thumbnail -o "$VIDEOFOLDER/%(uploader)s/%(title)s.%(ext)s" -a /tmp/videolist
```
to:
```
# newsboat_video_downloader.sh
59: yt-dlp -o "$VIDEOFOLDER/%(uploader)s/%(title)s.%(ext)s" -a /tmp/videolist
```

### detox
I like my files neat and tidy with reasonable names. I use `detox` for that. Using the `-d` flag activates `detox` after ddownloading all the videos.

### update
`-m` marks all downloaded videos as read in newsboat. Personally I've disabled that as I use newsboat as a client for miniflux which doesn't care about changes made to cache.db