Download peertube videos incrementally using a video id to access at the found videos to get all data json and mp4 from the website

peertube-download-videos.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# created by Alex Goretoy
# download videos from any peertube site, troo.tube by default
# creates a directory named after the domain where to download all videos

PEERTUBE_URL="${1:-https://troo.tube}";
DOMAIN_NAME=$(echo "${PEERTUBE_URL}" | awk -F[/:] '{print $4}');
START="${2:-0}";
FINISH="${3:-99999}"

[ ! -d $DOMAIN_NAME ] && mkdir $DOMAIN_NAME
for i in $(seq $START $FINISH); do
  data=$(wget -q "${PEERTUBE_URL}/api/v1/videos/${i}" -O -);
  if [ "$data" != "" ]; then
    ID=$(echo $data | jq .uuid | sed 's/"//g');
    NA=$(echo $data | jq .name | sed 's/"//g');
    RE=$(echo $data | jq .files[0].resolution.id | sed 's/"//g');
    echo $data > "$DOMAIN_NAME/$NA-$RE-$ID.data.json";  # subsequent writes will just update the existing json data file
    if [ ! -f "$DOMAIN_NAME/$NA-$RE-$ID.mp4" ]; then  # only download video if it hasn't already been downloaded
      url=$(echo $data | jq .files[0].fileDownloadUrl | sed 's/"//g');
      curl -s $url  > "$DOMAIN_NAME/$NA-$RE-$ID.mp4"
    fi
  fi
done