Starter for vkalbu+dgrab. Processes albums list from file, grabs album contents using dgrab, uploads audio album to vk.com using vkalbu.

vkalbu_starter

#!/bin/sh

albums_file=/path/to/albums_file
todo_file=/path/to/tmp/vkalbu_todo.json

# -u 10 and 10< in done section is used
# to prevent reading from stding inside
# vkalbu python script (captcha request)
# @see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1521462/looping-through-the-content-of-a-file-in-bash
while read -u 10 album; do
    echo "processing album $album"

    echo "dgrabbing..."
    /path/to/dgrab.py "$album" > "$todo_file"
    if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
        echo "failed to dgrab $album"
        exit 1
    fi

    echo "vkalbuming..."
    /path/to/vkalbu.py "$todo_file"
    if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
        echo "failed to vkalbu $todo_file"
        exit 1
    fi
done 10< "$albums_file"