chrometube-dl.sh

#!/bin/bash
## This Shellscript downloads all fresh videos from a firefox bookmark folder. ##

## Variables to edit carefully not ##
##declare -i ffdefault
#declare -i ffon=0
declare -a dbarray #videoclips
declare -a ydarray #youtube-dl parameters
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### Variables to edit from user --->START ###
# Firefox path profile.  I guess this is default right now. 
##fpath="default-release"

# IMPORTANT ! load from "database" or "array". Choose 1 ! 
declare -r loadfrom=database
# IMPORTANT ! if Loadfrom=database, save all your Youtube playlists in FF favdir example (amp3) #
#declare -r favdir="amp"

# You may edit dbarray as you want to.
# This has no effect if loadfrom=database
if [ $loadfrom == array ] ; then
    dbarray=(
    "https://www.youtube.com/user/GalileoOffiziell/videos"
    "https://www.youtube.com/user/BibisBeautyPalace/videos?sort=dd&shelf_id=1&view=0"
    "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC53bIpnef1pwAx69ERmmOLA"
    )
fi

### Variables to edit from user --->STOP###
###--------------------------------------------------

## path to youtube-dl. If you dont know, default should work in most cases" ##
# example2 declare -r yot_dl_p="youtube-dl"
# example3 declare -r yot_dl_p="$HOME/bin/youtube-dl"
yot_dl_p=$(command -v yt-dlp) || yot_dl_p=$(command -v youtube-dl)

#Setup Test "yot_dl_p"

## [ -z "$var" ] && echo "Empty" || echo "Not empty"

 [ -z "$yot_dl_p" ] && echo "Program youtube-dl not found" || echo "youtube-dl found at: $yot_dl_p"


## Update your youtube-dl ! ##
# youtube-dl update with crontab / good choice:  as root:  pip3 install --upgrade youtube-dl
# pip install --upgrade youtube-dl / mind the install path
$yot_dl_p -U 
# sudo apt-get install youtube-dl
## or , or nothing


# folder for the downloaded videos  #
# if dl_folder is empty you where asked every time this script starts ehere to put videos
dl_folder="$HOME/Downloads/youtube-dl1"
find "$dl_folder"/archive -type d >/dev/null 2>&1 || mkdir "$dl_folder"/archive

#Check for dl_folder and set variable if not exist.
test="notfound" ; find "$dl_folder" -type d >/dev/null 2>&1 \
&& test="Found Download folder at: $dl_folder"
if [ "$test" == notfound ] ;then
    echo "Hit ENTER or change and accept this folder for video storage !"
    read -r -e -i "$dl_folder" dl_folder 
    echo "Download folder is $dl_folder"
    mkdir "$dl_folder" && mkdir "$dl_folder"/archive
else
    echo "$test"
fi

## youtube-dl Parameterlist as array START ##

# Date for yesterday is "1 day ago" #
datum=$(date -d "2 days ago" '+%Y%m%d')
ydarray[0]=" --dateafter ""$datum"
# Max. videos / datum to each playlist #
perday=4
ydarray[1]=" --playlist-end ""$perday"
ydarray[2]=" --max-downloads ""$perday"
# For more youtube-dl parameters
# if aria2 is installed example : #
# ydarray[3]='--external-downloader aria2c  --external-downloader-args "-j 8 -s 8 -x 8 -k 5M"'
ydarray[3]=""

## youtube-dl Paramrterlist STOP ##

if [ $loadfrom == database ] ; then
   
readarray -t dbarray < <( jq -r '.roots.other.children[]| select(.name == "amp" and .type == "folder") |.children[].url|@sh' "$HOME/snap/chromium/common/chromium/Default/Bookmarks" )   
   
   
fi
cd  "$dl_folder" || exit

## Let youtube-dl do the work  and download brandnew videos ##

# Get out of here with 2X CTRL+C
trap "echo Exited!; exit;" SIGINT SIGTERM

for i in "${dbarray[@]}"; do
    iurl=$(echo -n "$i" | tr -d \')
   # iarch=$(echo -n "$i" | sed -E "s/\//%/g")
    
    $yot_dl_p  --continue --no-overwrites --ignore-errors --download-archive "$dl_folder"/archive/"$iurl""${ydarray[0]}""${ydarray[1]}""${ydarray[2]}""${ydarray[3]}" "$i" ;
done
exit
# exit or not. It is your choice