Made some more progress on my #YouTubeDL #subtitles / #captions retrieval and formatting server script.

Caching of the video metadata and TTML captions works now, which should reduce the amount of calls to the #YouTube (or other #StreamingMedia service) servers while testing.

I can now prepend a YouTube URL with my own test server's URL, and I'll get a simple text / markdown file with the video's channel name, title, upload and retrieval date, some other metadata I'm interested in, and most importantly: its manual or automatic captions in as legible plain text format as I can get it.

Once I can't think of any more improvements to add, I'll clean up the code, and publish it in a public repository.

I won't run my own public instance of it unfortunately, as I'd rather not risk my IP getting blacklisted for excessive YouTubeDL calls, but hopefully others will run with it and host their own, similar to #Invidious.

In addition to a webserver frontend and its command-line interface, I hope to add a standalone graphical user interface too, so you can just run it straight from your desktop too. Though I might need some help with this.

It currently relies on youtube-dl, but I guess it might also be a good idea to add support for the official #YouTubeData #API.

#coding #ScratchYourOwnItches

Okay, so I got a rudimentary first version of #TootPortal working, which is yet another #ScratchYourOwnItches #PetProject.

It allows me to create a directory structure with simple #markdown files in it, which will be converted into #HTML, where each list item that refers to a toot URL (for now only Mastodon style URLs with numeric IDs are supported), gets expanded to the bare minimum content of that status, along with (optionally) any replies to it.

#coding #DataMassaging #DataLiberation

Great... 2021 has barely started, and I already have a #coding idea for yet another #PetProject xD
Of course it's also something that fits my #ScratchYourOwnItches set of ideas...

Fortunately it should be something that's fairly straightforward. (or so I hope... :P)

Since I haven't had the motivation lately to work on finishing my #blog, I've at least made a separate export of the #Now page I made for it: https://fixato.org/now.html

In it I try to list the various #PetProjects I switch between, as well as films and series I have recently watched or am watching.

#personal #coding #ScratchYourOwnItches #NowPage

And with that, the #code for #Mastoffline, my in-development personal #Mastodon client using #MastodonPy and #Kivy, has been published to #SourceHut: https://git.sr.ht/~fixato/Mastoffline

It's far from done, but I felt the code had matured enough from a simple proof of concept to see if Kivy was a suitable #Python #GUI library for me, to one of my #ScratchYourOwnItches #PetProjects that I will slowly work on when I feel like it, to warrant its own repo.

#coding #PetProject

If you like the #NSFW #comic #Oglaf, you might enjoy this #UserScript I wrote earlier today: https://gist.github.com/FiXato/b5434f66d2af50514bf84721fa249c22

#UserJS #UserScripts #coding #comics #ScratchYourOwnItches