A simple bash/python script to fetch video urls for Arte Tracks

arte_tracks_video_fetcher

#!/bin/bash

#
# settings
#

LANGUAGE=DE

#
# script
#

wget "http://www.arte.tv/guide/de/sendungen/TRA/tracks" -q -O tracks.html
VIDEO_ID=`grep "data-vid=" tracks.html | sed -En "s/.*data\-vid\='([^']+)'.*/\1/p" | uniq`
wget "http://arte.tv/papi/tvguide/videos/stream/player/D/$VIDEO_ID/ALL/ALL.json" -q -O video.json
python <<END
import json
with open("video.json") as f:
    d = json.load(f)
    d = d["videoJsonPlayer"]

print "Date        : %s" % d['VDA']
print "Desc (short): %s" % d['V7T']
print "Desc (long) : %s" % d['VDE']
print ""

videos = d["VSR"].values()
for x in filter(lambda x: x["mediaType"] == "mp4" and x["versionShortLibelle"] == '$LANGUAGE', videos):
    print "Quality: %s" % x["quality"]
    print "Url    : %s" % x["url"]
    print ""
END

# cleanup
rm -f tracks.html video.json