nixos-config/modules/nixos/tasks/multimedia-archive

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• Integrating with Newpipe subscriptions

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?

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. This is done by running the ./convert-newpipe-db-to-json script and specifying the exported Newpipe database (as a ZIP file).

Caution

Please don’t run the task with all of the subscriptions. You should select only a few categories and clean them up.

./convert-newpipe-db-to-json ~/Downloads/NewPipeData-20220714_185126.zip

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.

./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

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.