YouTubeMonitorAndUpload

YouTubeMonitor.sh

#!/bin/sh
# Uses 'inoticoming' to efficiently monitor a directory and call an upload script.
#
# Usage:
# Remember to set the variables at the top of the script files.
# Can be run directly or at startup by adding lines to /etc/rc.local (Debian) example:
# sudo -b -u www-data /path/to/YouTubeMonitor.sh MONITOR_DIR COMPLETE_DIR [PLAYLIST_ID]
# Add one monitor line per directory/playlist.
# Now simply drop files into the monitored directory and they will be uploaded, named, tagged and playlisted.
#
# MONITOR_DIR might be an ftp, webdav or any directory.
#
# Depends on:
# - http://code.google.com/p/youtube-upload/ (download)
# - python-gdata (apt-get install)
# - inoticoming (apt-get install)
# - YouTubeUpload.sh (supplied)

## Set these variables.
UPLOAD_SCRIPT=/path/to/YouTubeUpload.sh
MONITOR_SCRIPT=/path/to/YouTubeMonitor.sh

## Command line args.
MONITOR_DIR="$1"
COMPLETE_DIR="$2"
PLAYLIST_ID="$3"

## To find UID: cat /etc/passwd |grep www-data
## You may disable this block if you don't want this protection.
## But seriously don't run as root!
if [ $UID != "33" ]; then
   echo "Do NOT run this script as root!"
   echo "Put something like this in /etc/sudoers:"
   echo "%www-data ALL=(www-data) SETENV: NOPASSWD: $MONITOR_SCRIPT"
   echo ""
   echo "Then try: 'sudo -b -u www-data $MONITOR_SCRIPT'"
   exit 1
fi

if [ $# -lt 2 ] ; then
    echo "Usage: $0 MONITOR_DIR COMPLETE_DIR [PLAYLIST_ID]"
    echo ""
    echo "MONITOR_DIR is the directory to monitor."
    echo "COMPLETE_DIR is the directory to move the file to."
    echo "[PLAYLIST_ID] is optional and the playlist to add the uploaded file to"
    exit 1
fi

if [ ! -d "$MONITOR_DIR" ] ; then
    echo "$MONITOR_DIR: is not a directory"
    exit 1
fi

if [ ! -d "$COMPLETE_DIR" ] ; then
    echo "$COMPLETE_DIR is not a directory"
    exit 1
fi

# inoticoming dir_to_monitor chdir dir action_to_call $1=dir $2=dest_dir $3=file $4=playlist_id
inoticoming "$MONITOR_DIR" --chdir "$MONITOR_DIR" "$UPLOAD_SCRIPT" "$MONITOR_DIR" "$COMPLETE_DIR" "{}" "$PLAYLIST_ID" \;

YouTubeUpload.sh

#!/bin/sh
# Upload video file to YouTube using youtube_upload.py
#
# Usage:
# Can be run directly or via YouTubeMonitor.sh
# Remember to set the variables at the top of the script files.
# Set rwx permissions: chmod 0750 ./YouTube*
# Set group: chown :www-data ./YouTube*
#
# Depends on:
# http://code.google.com/p/youtube-upload/ (download)

## Set these variables.
LOG_FILE=/path/to/YouTubeUpload.log
PYTHON_UPLOADER=/path/to/youtube_upload.py
UPLOADER_OPTS="--no-split"
[email protected]
LOGIN_PASS=MyPass
DESC=""
CATEGORY="Tech"
TAGS="tag1,tag2"

## Command line args.
UPLOAD_DIR="$1"
COMPLETE_DIR="$2"
UPLOAD_FILE="$3"
PLAYLIST_ID="$4"

## To find UID: cat /etc/passwd |grep www-data
## You may disable this block if you don't want this protection.
## But seriously don't run as root!
if [ $UID != "33" ]; then
   echo "Do NOT run this script as root!"
   echo "Put something like this in /etc/sudoers:"
   echo "%www-data ALL=(www-data) SETENV: NOPASSWD: $PYTHON_UPLOADER"
   echo ""
   echo "Then try: 'sudo -b -u www-data $0'"
   exit 1
fi

if [ $# -lt 3 ] ; then
    echo "Usage: $0 UPLOAD_DIR COMPLETE_DIR UPLOAD_FILE [PLAYLIST_ID]"
    echo ""
    echo "UPLOAD_DIR is the directory upload from."
    echo "COMPLETE_DIR is the directory to move the file to."
    echo "UPLOAD_FILE is the file to upload."
    echo "[PLAYLIST_ID] is optional and the playlist to add the uploaded file to"
    echo "PLAYLIST_ID can be found at http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/USERNAME/playlists"
    echo "Play list URI can be checked at http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/playlists/PLAYLIST_ID"
    exit 1
fi

if [ ! -d "$UPLOAD_DIR" ] ; then
    echo "$UPLOAD_DIR: is not a directory"
    exit 1
fi

if [ ! -d "$COMPLETE_DIR" ] ; then
    echo "$COMPLETE_DIR is not a directory"
    exit 1
fi

if [ ! -f "$UPLOAD_DIR/$UPLOAD_FILE" ] ; then
    echo "$UPLOAD_FILE: is not a file"
    exit 1
fi

if [ -n "$PLAYLIST_ID" ] ; then
    UPLOADER_OPTS="$UPLOADER_OPTS --playlist-uri=http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/playlists/$PLAYLIST_ID"
fi

echo "" >> "$LOG_FILE"
date >> "$LOG_FILE"

## Test PYTHON_UPLOADER by logging returned YouTube categories.
#python "$PYTHON_UPLOADER" -c  >> "$LOG_FILE" 2>&1

echo "Uploading file: $UPLOAD_FILE." >> "$LOG_FILE"
python "$PYTHON_UPLOADER" $UPLOADER_OPTS "$LOGIN_EMAIL" "$LOGIN_PASS" "$UPLOAD_DIR/$UPLOAD_FILE" "${UPLOAD_FILE%.*}" "$DESC" "$CATEGORY" "$TAGS" >> "$LOG_FILE" 2>&1

echo "Moving file." >> "$LOG_FILE"
mv "$UPLOAD_DIR/$UPLOAD_FILE" "$COMPLETE_DIR/" >> "$LOG_FILE" 2>&1

echo "Finished." >> "$LOG_FILE"

Fair enough, except for the prevention with "set -e":

http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashPitfalls
"Some people also like to enable set -e to make their scripts abort on any command that returns non-zero, but this can be rather tricky to use correctly (since many common commands may return a non-zero for a warning condition, which you may not want to treat as fatal)."

This seems a pretty weak argument to me. It's like saying "this mechanism will fail on 1% of the cases, so let's not use it at all" :-) yeah, I know, false sense of security is also dangeous, but still...

You can have the best of two worlds: set -e + check the return of commands.

I saw that there is no real Google Drive Sync for linux (except proprietary) , I really need to sync a folder. I installed and configured rclone, and I was wondering if I can use inoticoming to trigger sync events.
I already use inoticoming to print (lpr) Pdf files, that my wife needs for her business. She saves them as pdf in a watched folder, and that triggers the print command.
^Nice Code !