#!/bin/bash #Parameters: #1st parameter: Channel you want to turn into a playlist. Leave blank to save your subscriptions (cookie file required) channel=${1:-"subscriptions"} #2nd parameter: Time limit for the download. Leave blank to save all videos from the last month. breaktime=${2:-"today-1month"} #3rd parameter: Seconds between data requests. Decrease to make downloads faster, but your account may be temporarily blocked if you use a number too low. sleeptime=${3:-"1.0"} #4th parameter: Whether to enable exporting to FreeTube playlist database (1=on by default, 0=off) enabledb=${4:-"1"} #5th parameter: Whether to enable exporting to a CSV file (1=on by default, 0=off) enablecsv=${5:-"1"} #Internal variables: #Via https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59895/how-do-i-get-the-directory-where-a-bash-script-is-located-from-within-the-script folder=$(cd -- "$(dirname -- "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" &>/dev/null && pwd) #Required to download your own subscriptions. #Obtain this file through the procedure listed at # https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/wiki/FAQ#how-do-i-pass-cookies-to-yt-dlp #and place it next to your script. cookies="${folder}/yt-cookies.txt" subfolder="${folder}/${channel}" archive="${subfolder}/${channel}.txt" sortcsv="${subfolder}/${channel}-sort.csv" csv="${subfolder}/${channel}.csv" json="${subfolder}/${channel}.db" python="python" if [[ -f "/opt/venv/bin/python" ]]; then python="/opt/venv/bin/python" fi ytdl="/usr/bin/yt-dlp" if [[ -f "/opt/venv/bin/yt-dlp" ]]; then ytdl="/opt/venv/bin/yt-dlp" fi if [[ ! -d "${subfolder}" ]]; then mkdir -v "${subfolder}" fi cd "${subfolder}" || exit if [[ ! -f "${archive}" ]]; then touch "${archive}" fi if [[ -f "${channel}.tar.zst" ]]; then tar -xvp -I zstd -f "${channel}.tar.zst" fi #If available, you can use the cookies from your browser directly: # --cookies-from-browser "firefox" url="https://www.youtube.com/@${channel}" if [[ "${channel}" = "subscriptions" ]]; then url="https://www.youtube.com/feed/subscriptions" fi if [[ -z "${cookies}" && "${channel}" = "subscriptions" ]]; then "${python}" "${ytdl}" "${url}" \ --skip-download --download-archive "${archive}" \ --dateafter "${breaktime}" \ --extractor-args youtubetab:approximate_date \ --break-on-reject --lazy-playlist --write-info-json \ --sleep-requests "${sleeptime}" else "${python}" "${ytdl}" "${url}" \ --cookies "${cookies}" \ --skip-download --download-archive "${archive}" \ --dateafter "${breaktime}" \ --extractor-args youtubetab:approximate_date \ --break-on-reject --lazy-playlist --write-info-json \ --sleep-requests "${sleeptime}" fi rm -rf "${csv}" if [[ ! -f "${sortcsv}" ]]; then touch "${sortcsv}" fi find . -type f -iname "*.info.json" -exec ls -t {} + | while read -r xp; do x="${xp##./}" echo "youtube $(jq -cr '.id' "${x}")" | tee -a "${archive}" & if [[ ${enablecsv} = "1" ]]; then jq -c '[.upload_date, .timestamp, .uploader , .title, .webpage_url]' "${subfolder}/${x}" | while read -r i; do echo "${i}" | sed -e "s/^\[//g" -e "s/\]$//g" -e "s/\\\\\"/"/g" | tee -a "${csv}" & done fi if [[ ${enablecsv} = "1" || ${enabledb} = "1" ]]; then jq -c '[.upload_date, .timestamp]' "${subfolder}/${x}" | while read -r i; do echo "${i},${x}" | sed -e "s/^\[//g" -e "s/\],/,/g" -e "s/\\\\\"/"/g" | tee -a "${sortcsv}" & done fi if [[ $(jobs -r -p | wc -l) -ge $(($(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN) * 3 * 2)) ]]; then wait -n fi done wait if [[ ${enablecsv} = "1" || ${enabledb} = "1" ]]; then sort "${sortcsv}" | uniq >"/tmp/${channel}-sort-ordered.csv" fi if [[ ${enabledb} = "1" ]]; then rm "/tmp/${channel}.db" echo "{\"playlistName\":\"${channel}\",\"protected\":false,\"description\":\"Videos to watch later\",\"videos\":[" >"/tmp/${channel}.db" fi if [[ ${enablecsv} = "1" || ${enabledb} = "1" ]]; then while read -r line; do file=$(echo "${line}" | cut -d ',' -f3-) echo "${file}" if [[ "${breaktime}" =~ ^[0-9]+$ ]]; then uploaddate=$(echo "${line}" | cut -d ',' -f1 | sed -e "s/\"//g") if [[ "${uploaddate}" -lt "${breaktime}" ]]; then echo "Video ${file} uploaded on ${uploaddate}, removing..." rm "${file}" fi fi if [[ ${enabledb} = "1" ]]; then if [[ -f "${file}" ]]; then jq -c "{\"videoId\": .id, \"title\": .title, \"author\": .uploader, \"authorId\": .channel_id, \"lengthSeconds\": .duration, \"published\": ( .timestamp * 1000 ), \"timeAdded\": $(date +%s)$(date +%N | cut -c-3), \"playlistItemId\": \"$(cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/uuid)\", \"type\": \"video\"}" "${subfolder}/${file}" | tee -a "/tmp/${channel}.db" echo "," >>"/tmp/${channel}.db" fi fi done <"/tmp/${channel}-sort-ordered.csv" fi if [[ ${enabledb} = "1" ]]; then echo "],\"_id\":\"${channel}\",\"createdAt\":$(date +%s),\"lastUpdatedAt\":$(date +%s)}" >>"/tmp/${channel}.db" rm "${json}" grep -v -e ":[ ]*null" "/tmp/${channel}.db" | tr '\n' '\r' | sed -e "s/,\r[,\r]*/,\r/g" | sed -e "s/,\r\]/\]/g" -e "s/\[\r,/\[/g" | tr '\r' '\n' | jq -c . >"${json}" && rm "/tmp/${channel}.db" fi if [[ ${enablecsv} = "1" || ${enabledb} = "1" ]]; then rm "/tmp/${channel}-sort-ordered.csv" "${sortcsv}" fi if [[ ${enablecsv} = "1" ]]; then sort "${csv}" | uniq >"/tmp/${channel}-without-header.csv" echo '"Upload Date", "Timestamp", "Uploader", "Title", "Webpage URL"' >"/tmp/${channel}.csv" cat "/tmp/${channel}-without-header.csv" >>"/tmp/${channel}.csv" mv "/tmp/${channel}.csv" "${csv}" rm "/tmp/${channel}-without-header.csv" fi sort "${archive}" | uniq >"/tmp/${channel}.txt" mv "/tmp/${channel}.txt" "${archive}" tar -cvp -I zstd -f "${channel}.tar.zst" ./*.info.json && rm ./*.info.json