scripts

listenpod

#! /bin/bash

#v0.5 adds support for youtube-dl

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# Script to prompt for a URI to download, play and remove a podcastfile or online video.
# Depends on wget, awk and mplayer and youtube-dl
#
#NO ERROR HANDELING IMPLEMENTED
#
# Written by Sebastian Hellvin (habmala.se)
######



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# Setting up some help messages, slight debug and user input
###

if [ "$1" = "-h" ]; then
  echo "################################################################"
  echo -e "This script will download a file from the internet and play it before removing the file again.\n\n It will first prompt for a url that must point to the file you want to hear or see.\n It is assumed that the url is divided with slashes (/) and that after the last slash is the filename.\n\n The script is written in bash and needs \"wget\", \"mplayer\" and \"awk\" to function.\n\n version 0.5 also supports the options -y for using youtube-dl, otherwise wget will be used as normal. awk and mplayer are still needed eighter way."
  echo "################################################################"
exit 0
elif [ -n "$2" ]; then
    echo "Only one command accepted. -h for help or -y for youtube-dl or -w for wget (default)"
    exit 0
elif [ "$1" = "-d" ]; then
    echo "debug" #not implemented
fi

echo -e "Welcome to the podcast/internet video player script.\nBy entering a URL for a file or video site (depending on usage) it's downloaded,\nplayed locally and then removed.\n\nScript written by Sebastian Hellvin, -h for help and details."



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# Setting up the variables
###

read -p "Enter your URL: " URL #Reads the users url

fileName="$(echo $URL | awk -F/ '{print $NF}')" #whatever is after the last / of the url will be the filename for the temporary file

#Change this if statement to swap the defaults
if [ "$1" = "-y" ]; then
    downloader="youtube-dl -o $fileName"
else
    downloader="wget"
fi

echo $URL #for testing
echo $fileName #for testing



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# Acctual execusion
###

$downloader $URL #downloads the file

mplayer $fileName #plays with mplayer

rm $fileName #removes the file