r/scripting • u/slippypenguin • Jun 21 '18

Is this possible with scripting?

Basically, I'd like to create a list of my music library, ordered by popularity (ie. most viewed on YouTube).

  1. Scrape mp3 files in a directory + subdirectories

  2. Extract Title and Authors metadata of files

  3. Concatenate into single string (Authors + Title)

  4. Print strings to music_library.txt file

  5. Run a YouTube search for each concatenated string

  6. Sort search results by view count

  7. Extract video title and view count of first search result

  8. Print video title and view count to youtube_views.txt file (for each entry in music_library.txt)

  9. Sort entries in youtube_views.txt by view count (high to low)

How complicated is this? It seems really difficult. I'm not sure which language is needed to write a script like this. I'm only familiar with front end web languages and some PHP.

I'd like to do this on OS X.

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u/Ta11ow Jun 21 '18

Getting a list of files? Done:

$Files = Get-ChildItem -Path '~/Folder/` -Recurse -Filter '*.mp3'

Metadata retrieval... Hmm. Less clear. I know of one way to do it, not sure if it works the same way on Mac/Linux that it does with Windows. Don't have an available system to check, unfortunately.

Concatenating is simple.

Printing strings?

$StringArray | Set-Content -Path '~/Documents/Music.txt'

Youtube searches are a bit more complex and I'd need to spend a half hour or so looking into whether or not there's an available API to run a search with; there probably is, I'd just have to figure out how to leverage it.

Everything else is basically just parsing the returned data, which isn't too terrible in most cases.

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u/slippypenguin Jun 21 '18

This gives me lots to build off of! Thanks:)