Download and merge multiple video files (from twitch or youtube)

Last year I posted how to download and merge clips manually, recently I threw together a script that takes a twitch video, downloads the mp4 files, and them merges them all.

You'll have to download and compile ffmpeg which is a hassle, but since I use this script often it's worth the trouble.

#!/bin/bash
tempfolder=$(mktemp -d --tmpdir=./)

pushd $tempfolder
read -p "Input the date (YYYY-MM-DD): " date
echo "files:"
youtube-dl -e $@    # lists the file titles
echo "choosing one"
default_name=$(youtube-dl -e $@ 2>&1| head -1)
read -p "Name is $default_name. Override?: " name
if [ -z "$name" ]; then
    name=$default_name
fi

youtube-dl $@
file=$(mktemp --tmpdir=./)
for i in *.flv; do
    echo "file '$i'";
done > $file
ffmpeg -f concat -i $file -c copy "$date - $name.mp4"
mv "$date - $name.mp4" ..

popd
rm -r $tempfolder

The script will actually take multiple links as well, and concat them in order according to the twitch IDs.

Psql Snapshot

Ever want to make some temporary changes to a (test) database, that you can't do with just commits? I can't remember why I needed this, but it looks handy.

#!/bin/bash
# This was to create a quick snapshot of the database, make the changes I
# wanted, and then revert the database to exactly the way it was before I
# snapshotted it.


/etc/init.d/postgresql stop
umount /var/lib/postgresql/
lvcreate --snapshot --size 1G --name postgres-snap /dev/vg0/postgres
mount /dev/vg0/postgres-snap /var/lib/postgresql/
/etc/init.d/postgresql start

read -p "Press enter to start watching. And then ^C to drop the snapshot and switch to the old database" zzz
watch lvs

/etc/init.d/postgresql stop
umount /dev/vg0/postgres-snap && /sbin/lvremove --force /dev/vg0/postgres-snap
mount /var/lib/postgresql/
/etc/init.d/postgresql start

Transwiki copying

Update, 2023-06-13: please refer to the github page for how to use the download and import.

The details on the page are out of date, and a recent import showed some of the issues.