Script to automate our podcast publishing

pod-pub.ps1

Param (
  [Parameter(Mandatory=$True)]
  [string]$url
)

# this assumes you have youtube-dl installed
# choco install youtube-dl

# this also assumes you have ffmpeg installed
# choco install ffmpeg

# this also, also assumes you have Tag installed in the same dir
# http://synthetic-soul.co.uk/tag/

# store the local file name for conversion and cleanup
$local = youtube-dl --get-filename -o "%(title)s.%(ext)s" $url
$local_name_only = [System.IO.Path]::GetFileNameWithoutExtension($local)

$local_name_only = $local_name_only.ToLower()
$local_name_only = $local_name_only -replace '\s','-' # replace spaces with -

# populate some basic episode metadata
$local_title = youtube-dl --get-title $url
$local_description = youtube-dl --get-description $url

# download the file from youtube
youtube-dl -o "%(title)s.%(ext)s" $url

# convert to mp3
ffmpeg -i "./$local" -vn -b:a 192k -c:a libmp3lame "$local_name_only.convert.mp3"

# insert our intro music
ffmpeg -i "concat:f:\FragCast\final\fragcast-intro-music.mp3|$local_name_only.convert.mp3" -acodec copy "$local_name_only.mp3"

# tag the file
./Tag "$local_name_only.mp3" --artist "Frag Castle Games, Inc." --title "$local_title" --comment "$local_description" --year "2015" --album "FragCast Volume 2"

# copy the final file out
cp ".\$local_name_only.mp3" "f:\FragCast\final\$local_name_only.mp3"
cp ".\$local_name_only.mp3" "~\Dropbox\FragCast\$local_name_only.mp3"

# cleanup
if($LastExitCode -eq 0) {
  rm "./$local"
  rm "./$local_name_only.mp3"
  rm ".\$local_name_only.convert.mp3"
  Write-Host "All done! the episode is published and here: f:\FragCast\final\$local_name_only.mp3"
} else {
  Write-Host "something went fubar. not cleaning up."
}