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

Table of Contents

• Project structure
• 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?

Project structure

The following listing block shows the files and folders that this project should have.

./modules/nixos/tasks/multimedia-archive/
├── data/
├── scripts/
├── default.nix
└── README.adoc

Some points of interests include…​

• ./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., ./data/jobs.schema.json for the jobs database).

• ./scripts/ contains a bunch of scripts specific for this tasks. Mainly, it contains scripts to generate data found in ./data/ such as a script that is used to generate a jobs database suitable for this task from a NewPipe database.

• ./default.nix, the entry point for this module.

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.