Get video ids from youtube with yt-dlp #8

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gg merged 1 commits from pta/WeatherNews.jl:yt-dlp into main

2024-04-17 23:18:50 +00:00

pta commented

2024-04-17 19:09:55 +00:00

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For two reasons:

Youtube is the primary source.
Apparently staff manually copies the video id youtube gives them,
since they sometimes forget to update their json. With this commit,
I'm practically implementing the automation they should have
implemented themselves.
Make links available ahead of time for convenience.
Currently on our site, links aren't available until the moment the
program starts. So in practice, I have to open youtube to copy the
next stream's url for playing in mpv, lest I miss the first several
seconds of the show. (I know staff puts the next stream's link in
chat, but since it's manual, occasionally they forget, and the url is
usually in "/live/" rather than "/watch?v=" format: the latter makes
clearer screenshot filenames, imo.

yt-dlp becomes a required dependency. The same information could be
sourced with Julia code to scrape an invidious instance, but that would
incur more code to produce the same array of per-video dictionaries,
which could be desireable later as exercise in Julia.

Since urls will be known well ahead of time, the redundant calls to wndb-video.jl in crontab might be unnecessary.

For two reasons: 1. Youtube is the primary source. Apparently staff manually copies the video id youtube gives them, since they sometimes forget to update their json. With this commit, I'm practically implementing the automation they should have implemented themselves. 2. Make links available ahead of time for convenience. Currently on our site, links aren't available until the moment the program starts. So in practice, I have to open youtube to copy the next stream's url for playing in mpv, lest I miss the first several seconds of the show. (I know staff puts the next stream's link in chat, but since it's manual, occasionally they forget, and the url is usually in "/live/" rather than "/watch?v=" format: the latter makes clearer screenshot filenames, imo. yt-dlp becomes a required dependency. The same information could be sourced with Julia code to scrape an invidious instance, but that would incur more code to produce the same array of per-video dictionaries, which could be desireable later as exercise in Julia. Since urls will be known well ahead of time, the redundant calls to wndb-video.jl in crontab might be unnecessary.

pta added 1 commit 2024-04-17 19:09:56 +00:00

63b1f54515 Get video ids from youtube with yt-dlp

For two reasons:
1. Youtube is the primary source.
   Apparently staff manually copies the video id youtube gives them,
   since they sometimes forget to update their json. With this commit,
   I'm practically implementing the automation they should have
   implemented themselves.
2. Make links available ahead of time for convenience.
   Currently on our site, links aren't available until the moment the
   program starts. So in practice, I have to open youtube to copy the
   next stream's url for playing in mpv, lest I miss the first several
   seconds of the show. (I know staff puts the next stream's link in
   chat, but since it's manual, occasionally they forget, and the url is
   usually in "/live/" rather than "/watch?v=" format: the latter makes
   clearer screenshot filenames, imo.

yt-dlp becomes a required dependency. The same information could be
sourced with Julia code to scrape an invidious instance, but that would
incur more code to produce the same array of per-video dictionaries,
which could be desireable later as exercise in Julia.