sounds interesting, but you only tarred the symlinks in both emails :) Jeremy
On Mon 05 Jan 2009 - 06:51PM, Ian Daniher wrote: > Hello again, > While I'm at it, I might as well share a pair of my media scripts > which are extremely helpful when it comes to handling web A/V from > command line browsers. > > These two files are various bash scripts I've written [or adjusted] > for CLI media-related activities. "mcfmod" is a heavy modification > of a last.fm mpd player which allows a user to play specific > songs, artists, genres, or songs via mpd and the command line. > "mcf --help" details syntax. The script as I have it now will > download and label a single mp3 file from a specified genre, > artist, or etc. The script depends on id3, xmlstarlet, and misc. > other the standard GNU-linux tools. "youtubedl" is a fairly short > bash script which, given a youtube URL, provides an mplayer-able or > wget'able download URL. While this is definitely not the shortest > of youtube download scripts, it is extremely readable and sends > the minimum required information to the youtube servers. This > script can be used as a basis for other, similar scripts. > > I run mcfmod in a while [ True ] loop on my server, slowly filling > up the 300gb sata drive I have in there with assorted house and techno > music. youtubedl I am currently working on binding to a hotkey in w3m > to allow near-seamless viewing of youtube videos from a command line > browser. > > Enjoy! > -- > Ian Daniher