NULL mag Issue 06 28 Add youtube videos to BBS

eZine lover (@eZine)

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null magazine

 · 26 Dec 2020

  

 

    
   now that bbses have 24/7 internet connection and the bandwidth is  
   high, why not offer videos to our users? depending your theme on your  
   bbs or what do you like, you can offer a plethora of videos for  
   downloading. so lets make a script, that will download a video, the  
   description and make a nice archive with file_id.diz file, to offer at  
   the file section of your bbs. 
    
   you'll have to install youtube-dl,iconv,par and zip support to your linux  
   machine. then copy paste the script below, make it executable and use  
   it like this: ./yt2bbs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEN1KVdslbk 
    
   it will:  
            + get the video description 
            + download the file, only if it is smaller than 70MB. you can 
              change that if you want. 
            + it will convert the description to cp437 format and make  
              the file_id.diz file, with a width of 40chars 
            + rename the video file, so it hasn't spaces in the name 
            + make a zip file containing the video file and the .diz  
              file. 
             
   this way users visiting your bbs, will be able to read a description  
   about the video before downloading it. 
    
   /- yt2bbs.sh ---------- ------------------- ------------ ------- -- - - -\ 
    
#!/bin/bash 
youtube-dl -f 'best[filesize<70M]' "$1" --get-description | par 40 >> desc.txt 
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then 
  
#convert text to CP437 
 iconv desc.txt -f utf8 -t cp437 -c -o file_id.diz 
 rm desc.txt 
#get description, format it to 40 chars wide and save it as file_id.diz 
 fname="$(youtube-dl -f 'best[filesize<70M]' "$1" --get-filename)" 
#remove spaces 
 fname="$(echo "${fname// /_}")" 
#remove single quotes 
 fname="$(echo "${fname//\'/_}")" 
#now download the video and  
 youtube-dl -f 'best[filesize<70M]' "$1" -o $fname 
#zip the files... video+file_id.diz 
 zip "${fname%.mp4}.zip" file_id.diz "$fname" -0 
else 
   echo "Error geting video information." 
fi 
    
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