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= Multimedia archiving
:toc:
More like offline delivery, really.
Just wait for the task to complete and you have your videos, pictures, music, and whatever questionable files you want to download.
It's a nice offline repository for it especially that internet usually randomly disconnects so that's nice while I still have something working, yeah?
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== Project structure
The following listing block shows the files and folders that this project should have.
[source, tree]
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./modules/nixos/tasks/multimedia-archive/
├── data/
├── scripts/
├── default.nix
└── README.adoc
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Some points of interests include...
* link:./data/[`./data/`] contains a bunch of data (i.e., jobs for various services).
This is used to easily import them from a process that is used to externally generate them.
Some of the data may have a schema available (e.g., link:./data/jobs.schema.json[`./data/jobs.schema.json`] for the jobs database).
* link:./scripts/[`./scripts/`] contains a bunch of scripts specific for this tasks.
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Mainly, it contains scripts to generate data found in `./data/` such as link:./scripts/create-jobs-from-newpipe-db[a script that is used to generate a jobs database suitable for this task from a NewPipe database].
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* link:./default.nix[`./default.nix`], the entry point for this module.
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== Integrating with Newpipe subscriptions
In this task, I usually just download videos from YouTube.
While I could note every preferred creator manually, I could automate them by getting a list of subscriptions from my Newpipe config which I use surprisingly more often than I thought.
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This is done by running the link:./scripts/create-jobs-from-newpipe-db[`./scripts/create-jobs-from-newpipe-db`] script and specifying the exported Newpipe database (as a ZIP file).
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[CAUTION]
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Please don't run the task with all of the subscriptions.
You should select only a few categories and clean them up.
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[source, sh]
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./convert-newpipe-db-to-json ~/Downloads/NewPipeData-20220714_185126.zip
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You can run the script with the `-h` flag for more information.
There are nifty things you can do with the script.
Such as the following code block which you can interactively select which folders to export.
[source, sh]
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./convert-newpipe-db-to-json ~/Downloads/NewPipeData-20220714_185126.zip --list-categories \
| fzf --multi --prompt "Choose which categories to export " \
| ./convert-newpipe-db-to-json ~/Downloads/NewPipeData-20220714_185126.zip -o ./newpipe-db.json
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Remember the larger the list, the larger the chances for a throttling.
Thus, it is heavily encouraged that you clean up your list (and/or get good at organizing your categories) before activating the updated version.
