#!/bin/dash while ! ping -c 1 9.9.9.9 > /dev/null 2>&1; do sleep 0.5; done # "~/.local/share/channels.txt" looks like below: # Luke Smith=https://www.youtube.com/@LukeSmithxyz/videos # Mental Outlaw=https://www.youtube.com/@MentalOutlaw/videos # ~/.local/share/categories.txt looks like below: # Tech=Luke Smith|Mental Outlaw INSTALLER="sudo pacman -S --noconfirm" DATA_DIR="$HOME/.cache/youtube_channels" CHANNEL_LIST="$HOME/.local/share/channels.txt" mkdir -p "$DATA_DIR" && touch "$CHANNEL_LIST" error_handling() { [ -s "$CHANNEL_LIST" ] || { notify-send "You don't have any channels in 'channels.txt'." exit 1 } grep -q "^.*=https://www.youtube.com/@[[:alnum:]]*/videos$" "$CHANNEL_LIST" || { notify-send "'channels.txt' formatting is wrong." exit 1 } for pkg in yt-dlp mpv jq; do command -v "$pkg" >/dev/null || { notify-send "$pkg is not installed. Installing..." $INSTALLER "$pkg" || { notify-send "Failed to install $pkg." exit 1 } } done } compare_data() { local channel_name="$1" local data_file="${DATA_DIR}/${channel_name}.tsv" local old_data_file="${DATA_DIR}/${channel_name}_old.tsv" [ -e "$old_data_file" ] && { old_urls=$(cut -f2 "$old_data_file") new_urls=$(cut -f2 "$data_file") echo "$old_urls" | sort > temp1 echo "$new_urls" | sort > temp2 new_videos=$(comm -13 temp1 temp2 | wc -l) rm temp1 temp2 [ "$new_videos" -gt 0 ] && notify-send -u critical "$channel_name | $new_videos videos" } } update_data() { local channel_name="$1" local channel_url="$2" local data_file="${DATA_DIR}/${channel_name}.tsv" local old_data_file="${DATA_DIR}/${channel_name}_old.tsv" mv "$data_file" "$old_data_file" 2>/dev/null yt-dlp -j --flat-playlist --skip-download --extractor-args youtubetab:approximate_date "$channel_url" | jq -r '[.title, .url, .view_count, .duration, .upload_date] | @tsv' > "$data_file" } update_all_channels() { while IFS="=" read -r channel_name channel_url; do update_data "$channel_name" "$channel_url" & done < "$CHANNEL_LIST" wait while IFS="=" read -r channel_name channel_url; do compare_data "$channel_name" done < "$CHANNEL_LIST" } error_handling update_all_channels