<p>In episode <em>"Thu 2013-12-19: hpr1404 Editing pre-recorded audio in Audacity"</em> I walked you through editing a podcast, by the magic of editing this is been posted after the other show has aired. The plan here is to get people to share their useful hacks to show how elegant, or in my case ugly, code can be. As Knightwise says "Getting technology to work for you."™<br /> Feel free to share your own hacks with us.</p>
 <p><a href="https://hackerpublicradio.org/eps.php?id=1404">https://hackerpublicradio.org/eps.php?id=1404</a><br /><a href="https://hackerpublicradio.org/eps/hpr1430-downloader.bash.txt">https://hackerpublicradio.org/eps/hpr1430-downloader.bash.txt</a></p><pre>
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#!/bin/bash
# Downloads videos from youtube based on selection from https://thebestofyoutube.com
# (c) Ken Fallon https://kenfallon.com
# Released under the CC-0

maxtodownload=10
savepath="/mnt/media/Videos/tv/youtube/bestofyoutube"
savedir="${savepath}/$(\date -u +%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%SZ_%A)"
mkdir -p ${savedir}
logfile="${savepath}/downloaded.log"

# Gather the list
seq 1 ${maxtodownload} | while read videopage;
do 
  thisvideolist=$(wget --quiet "https://bestofyoutube.com/index.php?page=${videopage}" -O - | 
  grep 'www.youtube.com/embed/' | 
  sed 's#^.*www.youtube.com/embed/##' | 
  awk -F '"|?' '{print "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v="$1}')
  for thisvideo in $(echo $thisvideolist);
  do 
    if [ "$( grep "${thisvideo}" "${logfile}" | wc -l )" -eq 0 ];
    then
      echo "Found the new video ${thisvideo}"
      echo ${thisvideo} &gt;&gt; ${logfile}_todo
    else
      echo "Already downloaded ${thisvideo}"
    fi
  done
done

# Download the list
if [ -e ${logfile}_todo ];
then
  tac ${logfile}_todo | youtube-dl --batch-file - --ignore-errors --no-mtime --restrict-filenames \
    --max-quality --format mp4 --write-auto-sub -o ${savedir}'/%(autonumber)s-%(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s'
  cat ${logfile}_todo &gt;&gt; ${logfile}
  rm ${logfile}_todo
fi
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