A wise philosopher once told me: "the future is autotainment".
Manage and curate large media libraries. An index for your archive. Primary usage is local filesystem but also supports some virtual constructs like tracking online video playlists (eg. YouTube subscriptions) and scheduling browser tabs.
Linux recommended but Windows setup instructions available.
pip install xklb
Should also work on Mac OS.
Required: ffmpeg
Some features work better with: mpv, fd-find, fish
Local media
For thirty terabytes of video the initial scan takes about four hours to complete.
After that, subsequent scans of the path (or any subpaths) are much quicker--only
new files will be read by ffprobe.
library fsadd tv.db ./video/folder/
library watch tv.db # the default post-action is to do nothing
library watch tv.db --post-action delete # delete file after playing
library listen finalists.db -k ask_keep # ask whether to keep file after playing
To stop playing press Ctrl+C in either the terminal or mpv
Online media
Download playlist and channel metadata. Break free of the YouTube algo~
library tubeadd educational.db https://www.youtube.com/c/BranchEducation/videos
And you can always add more later--even from different websites.
library tubeadd maker.db https://vimeo.com/terburg
To prevent mistakes the default configuration is to download metadata for only the most recent 20,000 videos per playlist/channel.
library tubeadd maker.db --extractor-config playlistend=1000
Be aware that there are some YouTube Channels which have many items--for example the TEDx channel has about 180,000 videos. Some channels even have upwards of two million videos. More than you could likely watch in one sitting--maybe even one lifetime. On a high-speed connection (>500 Mbps), it can take up to five hours to download the metadata for 180,000 videos.
TIP! If you often copy and paste many URLs you can paste line-delimited text as arguments via a subshell. For example, in fish shell with cb:
library tubeadd my.db (cb)
Or in BASH:
library tubeadd my.db $(xclip -selection c)
Tubeupdate will go through the list of added playlists and fetch metadata for any videos not previously seen.
library tube-update tube.db
library watch maker.db
To stop playing press Ctrl+C in either the terminal or mpv
List all subcommands
$ library
library (v3.0.022; 91 subcommands)
Create database subcommands:
╭─────────────────┬──────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ fs-add │ Add local media │
├─────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ tube-add │ Add online video media (yt-dlp) │
├─────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ web-add │ Add open-directory media │
├─────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ gallery-add │ Add online gallery media (gallery-dl) │
├─────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ tabs-add │ Create a tabs database; Add URLs │
├─────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ links-add │ Create a link-scraping database │
├─────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ site-add │ Auto-scrape website data to SQLite │
├─────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ tables-add │ Add table-like data to SQLite │
├─────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ reddit-add │ Create a reddit database; Add subreddits │
├─────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ hn-add │ Create / Update a Hacker News database │
├─────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ substack │ Backup substack articles │
├─────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ tildes │ Backup tildes comments and topics │
├─────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ nicotine-import │ Import paths from nicotine+ │
├─────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ places-import │ Import places of interest (POIs) │
├─────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ row-add │ Add arbitrary data to SQLite │
╰─────────────────┴──────────────────────────────────────────╯
Text subcommands:
╭──────────────────┬────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ cluster-sort │ Sort text and images by similarity │
├──────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ regex-sort │ Sort text by regex split and corpus comparison │
├──────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ extract-links │ Extract inner links from lists of web links │
├──────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ extract-text │ Extract human text from lists of web links │
├──────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ markdown-links │ Extract titles from lists of web links │
├──────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ expand-links │ Expand search urls with query text │
├──────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ nouns │ Unstructured text -> compound nouns (stdin) │
├──────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ dates │ Unstructured text -> dates │
├──────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ times │ Unstructured text -> times │
├──────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ timestamps │ Unstructured text -> timestamps │
├──────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ json-keys-rename │ Rename JSON keys by substring match │
├──────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ combinations │ Enumerate possible combinations │
╰──────────────────┴────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
Folder subcommands:
╭─────────────────┬─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ merge-mv │ Move files and merge folders in BSD/rsync style, rename if possible │
├─────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ merge-folders │ Merge two or more file trees, check for conflicts before merging │
├─────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ mergerfs-cp │ cp files with reflink on mergerfs │
├─────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ scatter │ Scatter files between folders or disks │
├─────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ mv-list │ Find specific folders to move to different disks │
├─────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ mount-stats │ Show some relative mount stats │
├─────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ big-dirs │ Show large folders │
├─────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ similar-folders │ Find similar folders based on folder name, size, and count │
╰─────────────────┴─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
File subcommands:
╭────────────────┬─────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ christen │ Clean file paths │
├────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ sample-hash │ Calculate a hash based on small file segments │
├────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ sample-compare │ Compare files using sample-hash and other shortcuts │
├────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ similar-files │ Find similar files based on filename and size │
├────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ llm-map │ Run LLMs across multiple files │
╰────────────────┴─────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
Tabular data subcommands:
╭──────────────────┬──────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ eda │ Exploratory Data Analysis on table-like files │
├──────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ mcda │ Multi-criteria Ranking for Decision Support │
├──────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ plot │ Plot table-like files. A CLI interface to matplotlib │
├──────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ markdown-tables │ Print markdown tables from table-like files │
├──────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ columns │ Print columns of table-like files │
├──────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ incremental-diff │ Diff large table-like files in chunks │
╰──────────────────┴──────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
Media File subcommands:
╭────────────────┬───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ media-check │ Check video and audio files for corruption via ffmpeg │
├────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ process-media │ Estimate and execute potential disk space savings │
├────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ process-ffmpeg │ Shrink video/audio to AV1/Opus format (.mkv, .mka) │
├────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ process-image │ Shrink images to AV1 image format (.avif) │
├────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ process-text │ Shrink documents to HTML+AV1 image format (requires Calibre) │
├────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ images-to-pdf │ Convert folders of images into image PDFs │
├────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ pdf-edit │ Apply brightness, contrast, saturation, and sharpness adjustments to PDFs │
╰────────────────┴───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
Multi-database subcommands:
╭──────────────────┬────────────────────────╮
│ merge-dbs │ Merge SQLite databases │
├──────────────────┼────────────────────────┤
│ copy-play-counts │ Copy play history │
╰──────────────────┴────────────────────────╯
Filesystem Database subcommands:
╭────────────┬──────────────────────────╮
│ disk-usage │ Show disk usage │
├────────────┼──────────────────────────┤
│ search-db │ Search a SQLite database │
╰────────────┴──────────────────────────╯
Media Database subcommands:
╭─────────────────┬─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ block │ Block a channel │
├─────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ playlists │ List stored playlists │
├─────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ download │ Download media │
├─────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ download-status │ Show download status │
├─────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ redownload │ Re-download deleted/lost media │
├─────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ history │ Show and manage playback history │
├─────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ history-add │ Add history from paths │
├─────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ stats │ Show some event statistics (created, deleted, watched, etc) │
├─────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ search │ Search captions / subtitles │
├─────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ optimize │ Re-optimize database │
╰─────────────────┴─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
Playback subcommands:
╭────────────┬────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ watch │ Watch / Listen │
├────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ now │ Show what is currently playing │
├────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ next │ Play next file and optionally delete current file │
├────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ seek │ Set playback to a certain time, fast-forward or rewind │
├────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ stop │ Stop all playback │
├────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ pause │ Pause all playback │
├────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ tabs-open │ Open your tabs for the day │
├────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ links-open │ Open links from link dbs │
├────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ surf │ Auto-load browser tabs in a streaming way (stdin) │
╰────────────┴────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
Database enrichment subcommands:
╭────────────────────┬────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ dedupe-db │ Dedupe SQLite tables │
├────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ dedupe-media │ Dedupe similar media │
├────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ merge-online-local │ Merge online and local data │
├────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ mpv-watchlater │ Import mpv watchlater files to history │
├────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ reddit-selftext │ Copy selftext links to media table │
├────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ tabs-shuffle │ Randomize tabs.db a bit │
├────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ pushshift │ Convert pushshift data to reddit.db format (stdin) │
╰────────────────────┴────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
Update database subcommands:
╭────────────────┬─────────────────────────────────╮
│ fs-update │ Update local media │
├────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
│ tube-update │ Update online video media │
├────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
│ web-update │ Update open-directory media │
├────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
│ gallery-update │ Update online gallery media │
├────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
│ links-update │ Update a link-scraping database │
├────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
│ reddit-update │ Update reddit media │
╰────────────────┴─────────────────────────────────╯
Misc subcommands:
╭────────────────┬─────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ export-text │ Export HTML files from SQLite databases │
├────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ dedupe-czkawka │ Process czkawka diff output │
╰────────────────┴─────────────────────────────────────────╯
wget https://github.com/chapmanjacobd/library/raw/main/example_dbs/mealtime.tw.db
library watch mealtime.tw.db --random --duration 30m
wget https://github.com/chapmanjacobd/library/raw/main/example_dbs/music.tl.db
library listen music.tl.db -ct "House speakers" --random
wget https://github.com/chapmanjacobd/hn_mining/raw/main/hackernews_only_direct.tw.db
library watch hackernews_only_direct.tw.db --random --ignore-errors
library fsadd --audio audiobooks.db ./audiobooks/
library fsadd --audio podcasts.db ./podcasts/ ./another/more/secret/podcasts_folder/
# merge later if you want
library merge-dbs --pk path -t playlists,media audiobooks.db podcasts.db both.db
# or split
library merge-dbs --pk path -t playlists,media both.db audiobooks.db -w 'path like "%/audiobooks/%"'
library merge-dbs --pk path -t playlists,media both.db podcasts.db -w 'path like "%/podcasts%"'
via termux crontab
Wake up to your own music
30 7 * * * library listen ./audio.db
Wake up to your own music only when you are not home (computer on local IP)
30 7 * * * timeout 0.4 nc -z 192.168.1.12 22 || library listen --random
Wake up to your own music on your Chromecast speaker group only when you are home
30 7 * * * ssh 192.168.1.12 library listen --cast --cast-to "Bedroom pair"
Visit websites on a schedule
tabs is a way to organize your visits to URLs that you want to remember every once in a while.
The main benefit of tabs is that you can have a large amount of tabs saved (say 500 monthly tabs) and only the smallest amount of tabs to satisfy that goal (500/30) tabs will open each day. 17 tabs per day seems manageable--500 all at once does not.
The use-case of tabs are websites that you know are going to change: subreddits, games, or tools that you want to use for a few minutes daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, or yearly.
library tabsadd tabs.db --frequency monthly --category fun \
https://old.reddit.com/r/Showerthoughts/top/?sort=top&t=month \
https://old.reddit.com/r/RedditDayOf/top/?sort=top&t=month
library tabs is meant to run once per day. Here is how you would configure it with crontab:
45 9 * * * DISPLAY=:0 library tabs /home/my/tabs.db
Or with systemd:
tee ~/.config/systemd/user/tabs.service
[Unit]
Description=xklb daily browser tabs
[Service]
Type=simple
RemainAfterExit=no
Environment="DISPLAY=:0"
ExecStart=library tabs /home/my/tabs.db
tee ~/.config/systemd/user/tabs.timer
[Unit]
Description=xklb daily browser tabs timer
[Timer]
Persistent=yes
OnCalendar=*-*-* 9:58
[Install]
WantedBy=timers.target
systemctl --user daemon-reload
systemctl --user enable --now tabs.service
You can also invoke tabs manually:
library tabs tabs.db -L 1 # open one tab
Incremental surfing. 📈🏄 totally rad!
Curate with library big-dirs
If you are looking for candidate folders for curation (ie. you need space but don't want to buy another hard drive). The big-dirs subcommand was written for that purpose:
$ library big-dirs fs/d.db
You may filter by folder depth (similar to QDirStat or WizTree)
$ library big-dirs --depth=3 audio.db
There is also an flag to prioritize folders which have many files which have been deleted (for example you delete songs you don't like--now you can see who wrote those songs and delete all their other songs...)
$ library big-dirs --sort-groups-by deleted audio.db
Recently, this functionality has also been integrated into watch/listen subcommands so you could just do this:
$ library watch --big-dirs ./my.db
$ lb wt -B # shorthand equivalent
Backfill missing YouTube videos from the Internet Archive
for base in https://youtu.be/ http://youtu.be/ http://youtube.com/watch?v= https://youtube.com/watch?v= https://m.youtube.com/watch?v= http://www.youtube.com/watch?v= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
sqlite3 video.db "
update or ignore media
set path = replace(path, '$base', 'https://web.archive.org/web/2oe_/http://wayback-fakeurl.archive.org/yt/')
, time_deleted = 0
where time_deleted > 0
and (path = webpath or path not in (select webpath from media))
and path like '$base%'
"
endBackfill reddit databases with pushshift data
https://github.com/chapmanjacobd/reddit_mining/
for reddit_db in ~/lb/reddit/*.db
set subreddits (sqlite-utils $reddit_db 'select path from playlists' --tsv --no-headers | grep old.reddit.com | sed 's|https://old.reddit.com/r/\(.*\)/|\1|' | sed 's|https://old.reddit.com/user/\(.*\)/|u_\1|' | tr -d "\r")
~/github/xk/reddit_mining/links/
for subreddit in $subreddits
if not test -e "$subreddit.csv"
echo "octosql -o csv \"select path,score,'https://old.reddit.com/r/$subreddit/' as playlist_path from `../reddit_links.parquet` where lower(playlist_path) = '$subreddit' order by score desc \" > $subreddit.csv"
end
end | parallel -j8
for subreddit in $subreddits
sqlite-utils upsert --pk path --alter --csv --detect-types $reddit_db media $subreddit.csv
end
library tubeadd --safe --ignore-errors --force $reddit_db (sqlite-utils --raw-lines $reddit_db 'select path from media')
endExplore `library` databases in your browser
pip install datasette
datasette tv.db
Pipe to fzf
Choose a video to play
You can use fzf in a subshell to choose a specific video from 1000 random options
library watch ~/lb/video.db (library watch ~/lb/video.db -pf --random -L 1000 | fzf)
Pipe to mnamer
Rename poorly named files
pip install mnamer
mnamer --movie-directory ~/d/70_Now_Watching/ --episode-directory ~/d/70_Now_Watching/ \
--no-overwrite -b (library watch -p fd -s 'path : McCloud')
library fsadd ~/d/70_Now_Watching/
Pipe to lowcharts
$ library watch -p f -col time_created | lowcharts timehist -w 80
Matches: 445183.
Each ∎ represents a count of 1896
[2022-04-13 03:16:05] [151689] ∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎
[2022-04-19 07:59:37] [ 16093] ∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎
[2022-04-25 12:43:09] [ 12019] ∎∎∎∎∎∎
[2022-05-01 17:26:41] [ 48817] ∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎
[2022-05-07 22:10:14] [ 36259] ∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎
[2022-05-14 02:53:46] [ 3942] ∎∎
[2022-05-20 07:37:18] [ 2371] ∎
[2022-05-26 12:20:50] [ 517]
[2022-06-01 17:04:23] [ 4845] ∎∎
[2022-06-07 21:47:55] [ 2340] ∎
[2022-06-14 02:31:27] [ 563]
[2022-06-20 07:14:59] [ 13836] ∎∎∎∎∎∎∎
[2022-06-26 11:58:32] [ 1905] ∎
[2022-07-02 16:42:04] [ 1269]
[2022-07-08 21:25:36] [ 3062] ∎
[2022-07-15 02:09:08] [ 9192] ∎∎∎∎
[2022-07-21 06:52:41] [ 11955] ∎∎∎∎∎∎
[2022-07-27 11:36:13] [ 50938] ∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎
[2022-08-02 16:19:45] [ 70973] ∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎
[2022-08-08 21:03:17] [ 2598] ∎
BTW, for some cols like time_deleted you'll need to specify a where clause so they aren't filtered out:
$ library watch -p f -col time_deleted -w time_deleted'>'0 | lowcharts timehist -w 80
Add local media
$ library fs-add -h
usage: library fs-add [(--video) | --audio | --image | --text | --filesystem] DATABASE PATH ...
The default database type is video
library fsadd tv.db ./tv/
library fsadd --video tv.db ./tv/ # equivalent
You can also create audio databases. Both audio and video use ffmpeg to read metadata
library fsadd --audio audio.db ./music/
Image uses ExifTool
library fsadd --image image.db ./photos/
Text will try to read files and save the contents into a searchable database
library fsadd --text text.db ./documents_and_books/
Create a text database and scan with OCR and speech-recognition
library fsadd --text --ocr --speech-recognition ocr.db ./receipts_and_messages/
Create a video database and read internal/external subtitle files into a searchable database
library fsadd --scan-subtitles tv.search.db ./tv/ ./movies/
Decode media to check for corruption (slow)
library fsadd --check-corrupt
# See media-check command for full options
Normally only relevant filetypes are included. You can scan all files with this flag
library fsadd --scan-all-files mixed.db ./tv-and-maybe-audio-only-files/
# I use that with this to keep my folders organized
library watch -w 'video_count=0 and audio_count>=1' -pf mixed.db | parallel mv {} ~/d/82_Audiobooks/
Remove path roots with --force
library fsadd audio.db /mnt/d/Youtube/
[/mnt/d/Youtube] Path does not exist
library fsadd --force audio.db /mnt/d/Youtube/
[/mnt/d/Youtube] Path does not exist
[/mnt/d/Youtube] Building file list...
[/mnt/d/Youtube] Marking 28932 orphaned metadata records as deleted
If you run out of RAM, for example scanning large VR videos, you can lower the number of threads via --threads
library fsadd vr.db --delete-unplayable --check-corrupt --full-scan-if-corrupt 15% --delete-corrupt 20% ./vr/ --threads 3
Move files on import
library fsadd audio.db --move ~/library/ ./added_folder/
This will run destination paths through `library christen` and move files relative to the added folder root
Add online video media (yt-dlp)
$ library tube-add -h
usage: library tube-add [--safe] [--extra] [--subs] [--auto-subs] DATABASE URL ...
Create a dl database / add links to an existing database
library tubeadd dl.db https://www.youdl.com/c/BranchEducation/videos
Add links from a line-delimited file
cat ./my_yt_subscriptions.txt | library tubeadd reddit.db -
Add metadata to links already in a database table
library tubeadd --force reddit.db (sqlite-utils --raw-lines reddit.db 'select path from media')
Fetch extra metadata
By default tubeadd will quickly add media at the expense of less metadata.
If you plan on using `library download` then it doesn't make sense to use `--extra`.
Downloading will add the extra metadata automatically to the database.
You can always fetch more metadata later via tubeupdate
library tube-update tw.db --extra
Add open-directory media
$ library web-add -h
usage: library web-add [(--filesystem) | --video | --audio | --image | --text] DATABASE URL ...
Scan open directories
library web-add open_dir.db --video http://1.1.1.1/
Re-scan using a different profile
library media v.db -w 'size is null' --ext wmv,3gp,mp4 -pf | library web-add --media --force --video v.db -
Check download size of all videos matching some criteria
library download --fs open_dir.db --prefix ~/d/dump/video/ -w 'height<720' -E preview -pa
path count download_duration size avg_size
--------- ------- ---------------------------- --------- ----------
Aggregate 5694 2 years, 7 months and 5 days 724.4 GiB 130.3 MiB
Download all videos matching some criteria
library download --fs open_dir.db --prefix ~/d/dump/video/ -w 'height<720' -E preview
Stream directly to mpv
library watch open_dir.db
Add online gallery media (gallery-dl)
$ library gallery-add -h
usage: library gallery-add DATABASE URL ...
Add gallery_dl URLs to download later or periodically update
If you have many URLs use stdin
cat ./my-favorite-manhwa.txt | library galleryadd your.db --insert-only -
Create a tabs database; Add URLs
$ library tabs-add -h
usage: library tabs-add [--frequency daily weekly (monthly) quarterly yearly] [--no-sanitize] DATABASE URL ...
Adding one URL
library tabsadd -f daily tabs.db https://wiby.me/surprise/
Depending on your shell you may need to escape the URL (add quotes)
If you use Fish shell know that you can enable features to make pasting easier
set -U fish_features stderr-nocaret qmark-noglob regex-easyesc ampersand-nobg-in-token
Also I recommend turning Ctrl+Backspace into a super-backspace for repeating similar commands with long args
echo 'bind \b backward-kill-bigword' >> ~/.config/fish/config.fish
Importing from a line-delimitated file
library tabsadd -f yearly -c reddit tabs.db (cat ~/mc/yearly-subreddit.cron)
Create a link-scraping database
$ library links-add -h
usage: library links-add DATABASE PATH ... [--case-sensitive] [--cookies-from-browser BROWSER[+KEYRING][:PROFILE][::CONTAINER]] [--selenium] [--manual] [--scroll] [--auto-pager] [--poke] [--chrome] [--local-html] [--file FILE]
Database version of extract-links
You can fine-tune what links get saved with --path/text/before/after-include/exclude.
library links-add --path-include /video/
Import links from args
library links-add --no-extract links.db (cb)
Import lines from stdin
cb | library linksdb example_dbs/links.db --skip-extract -
IRIs vs URLs
XKLB should:
- print paths as unquoted UTF-8 IRIs (by default)
- accept either IRIs or URLs as input with optional flags to make parsing/searching explicitly use one or the other
- save paths to the database "AS-IS"
How I use it
library links-add links.db https://video/site/ --path-include /video/
library links-add links.db https://loginsite/ --path-include /article/ --cookies-from-browser firefox
library links-add links.db https://loginsite/ --path-include /article/ --cookies-from-browser chrome
cb -t text/html | xidel -s - -e '//@title' | unique | lb linksdb ~/mc/music.db -c p1 --skip-extract -
library links-add --path-include viewtopic.php --cookies-from-browser firefox \
--page-key start --page-start 0 --page-step 50 --fixed-pages 14 --stop-pages-no-match 1 \
plab.db https://plab/forum/tracker.php?o=(string replace ' ' \n -- 1 4 7 10 15)&s=2&tm=-1&f=(string replace ' ' \n -- 1670 1768 60 1671 1644 1672 1111 508 555 1112 1718 1143 1717 1851 1713 1712 1775 1674 902 1675 36 1830 1803 1831 1741 1676 1677 1780 1110 1124 1784 1769 1793 1797 1804 1819 1825 1836 1842 1846 1857 1861 1867 1451 1788 1789 1792 1798 1805 1820 1826 1837 1843 1847 1856 1862 1868 284 1853 1823 1800 1801 1719 997 1818 1849 1711 1791 1762)
Auto-scrape website data to SQLite
$ library site-add -h
usage: library site-add DATABASE PATH ... [--auto-pager] [--poke] [--local-html] [--file FILE]
Extract data from website requests to a database
library siteadd jobs.st.db --poke https://hk.jobsdb.com/hk/search-jobs/python/
Requires selenium-wire
Requires xmltodict when using --extract-xml
pip install selenium-wire xmltodict
Run with `-vv` to see and interact with the browser
Add table-like data to SQLite
$ library tables-add -h
usage: library tables-add DATABASE PATH ... [--table STR] [--end-row INT]
Insert data from one or more files into a SQLite database
Create a reddit database; Add subreddits
$ library reddit-add -h
usage: library reddit-add [--lookback N_DAYS] [--praw-site bot1] DATABASE URL ...
Fetch data for redditors and reddits
library redditadd interesting.db https://old.reddit.com/r/coolgithubprojects/ https://old.reddit.com/user/Diastro
If you have a file with a list of subreddits you can do this
library redditadd 96_Weird_History.db --subreddits (cat ~/mc/96_Weird_History-reddit.txt)
Likewise for redditors
library redditadd shadow_banned.db --redditors (cat ~/mc/shadow_banned.txt)
To remove entries (for example when you get 404s)
library search-db reddit.db playlists --or --exact subreddit1 subreddit2 --soft-delete
Note that reddit's API is limited to 1000 posts and it usually doesn't go back very far historically.
Also, it may be the case that reddit's API (praw) will stop working in the near future. For both of these problems
my suggestion is to use pushshift data.
You can find more info here: https://github.com/chapmanjacobd/reddit_mining#how-was-this-made
Create / Update a Hacker News database
$ library hn-add -h
usage: library hn-add [--oldest] DATABASE
Fetch latest stories first
library hnadd hn.db -v
Fetching 154873 items (33212696 to 33367569)
Saving comment 33367568
Saving comment 33367543
Saving comment 33367564
...
Fetch oldest stories first
library hnadd --oldest hn.db
Backup substack articles
$ library substack -h
usage: library substack DATABASE PATH ...
Backup substack articles
Backup tildes comments and topics
$ library tildes -h
usage: library tildes DATABASE USER
Backup tildes.net user comments and topics
library tildes tildes.net.db xk3
Without cookies you are limited to the first page. You can use cookies like this
https://github.com/rotemdan/ExportCookies
library tildes tildes.net.db xk3 --cookies ~/Downloads/cookies-tildes-net.txt
Import paths from nicotine+
$ library nicotine-import -h
usage: library nicotine-import DATABASE PATH ...
Load records from Nicotine+ File Lists
library nicotine-import ~/lb/soulseek.db /home/xk/.local/share/nicotine/usershares/*
By default we track deletions when only one file list is specified
library nicotine-import ~/lb/soulseek.db /home/xk/.local/share/nicotine/usershares/user1
Marking 508387 orphaned metadata records as deleted
library nicotine-import ~/lb/soulseek.db /home/xk/.local/share/nicotine/usershares/user2
Marking 31862 metadata records as undeleted
Marking 216495 orphaned metadata records as deleted
If this is undesirable, pass the `--no-track-deleted` flag
Import places of interest (POIs)
$ library places-import -h
usage: library places-import DATABASE PATH ...
Load POIs from Google Maps Google Takeout
Add arbitrary data to SQLite
$ library row-add -h
usage: library row-add DATABASE [--table-name TABLE_NAME] --COLUMN-NAME VALUE
Add a row to sqlite
library row-add t.db --test_b 1 --test-a 2
### media (1 rows)
| test_b | test_a |
|----------|----------|
| 1 | 2 |
Sort text and images by similarity
$ library cluster-sort -h
usage: library cluster-sort [input_path | stdin] [output_path | stdout]
Group lines of text into sorted output
echo 'red apple
broccoli
yellow
green
orange apple
red apple' | library cluster-sort
orange apple
red apple
red apple
broccoli
green
yellow
Show the groupings
echo 'red apple
broccoli
yellow
green
orange apple
red apple' | library cluster-sort --print-groups
[
{'grouped_paths': ['orange apple', 'red apple', 'red apple']},
{'grouped_paths': ['broccoli', 'green', 'yellow']}
]
Auto-sort images into directories
echo 'image1.jpg
image2.jpg
image3.jpg' | library cluster-sort --image --move-groups
Print similar paths
library fs 0day.db -pa --cluster --print-groups
Sort text by regex split and corpus comparison
$ library regex-sort -h
usage: library regex-sort [input_path | stdin] [output_path | stdout]
regex-sort is effectively a text-processing pipeline with the following steps:
line_splitter -- split lines into "words" (--regex)
word_sorter -- sort words within each line (--word-sort)
line_sorter -- sort lines (--line-sort)
Examples:
If your data has a lot of repeating rows it will help to sort by dup count:
--line-sort dup,natsort
You can use any matching regex to produce sorting words:
--regex \b\w\w+\b # word boundaries (default)
--regex \b\d+\b # digits
--regex '.{3}' # char counts
--regex '.{3}' --line-sort dup,natsort -v
(0, ((' Ja',), ('Sva',), ('aye',), ('lba',), ('n M',), ('rd ',))) # Svalbard and Jan Mayen
(0, ((' La',), ('Sri',), ('nka',))) # Sri Lanka
(0, ((' Ma',), ('San',), ('rin',))) # San Marino
(0, ((' Ri',), ('Pue',), ('rto',))) # Puerto Rico
(0, (('And',), ('orr',))) # Andorra
(0, (('Arm',), ('eni',))) # Armenia
You can use 'mcda' as a strategy for ranking multiple sort score criteria:
--word-sorts '-dup, mcda, count, -len, -lastindex, alpha' \\ # count, -len, -lastindex, alpha are weighted by entropy
--line-sorts '-allunique, alpha, mcda, alldup, dupmode, line' # alldup, dupmode, line are weighted by entropy
Extract inner links from lists of web links
$ library extract-links -h
usage: library extract-links PATH ... [--case-sensitive] [--scroll] [--download] [--local-html] [--file FILE]
Extract links from within local HTML fragments, files, or remote pages; filtering on link text and nearby plain-text
library links https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bacon_dishes --path-include https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ --after-include famous
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omelette
Read from local clipboard and filter out links based on nearby plain text
library links --local-html (cb -t text/html | psub) --after-exclude paranormal spooky horror podcast tech fantasy supernatural lecture sport
# note: the equivalent BASH-ism is <(xclip -selection clipboard -t text/html)
Use --selenium for sites require JavaScript
library links --selenium https://archive.org/search?query=subject%3A%22Archive.org+Census%22 --path-include census
Run with `-vv` to see the browser that normally loads in the background
Extract human text from lists of web links
$ library extract-text -h
usage: library extract-text PATH ... [--skip-links]
Sorting suggestions
library extract-text --skip-links --local-html (cb -t text/html | psub) | library cs --groups | jq -r '.[] | .grouped_paths | "\n" + join("\n")'
Extract titles from lists of web links
$ library markdown-links -h
usage: library markdown-links URL ... [--cookies COOKIES] [--cookies-from-browser BROWSER[+KEYRING][:PROFILE][::CONTAINER]] [--firefox] [--chrome] [--allow-insecure] [--scroll] [--manual] [--auto-pager] [--poke] [--file FILE]
Convert URLs into Markdown links with page titles filled in
library markdown-links https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgZDDW-NXDE
[Work For Peace](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgZDDW-NXDE)
Expand search urls with query text
$ library expand-links -h
usage: library expand-links SEARCH_URLS QUERY ...
Expand search URLs with multiple queries
library expand-links -s https://www.google.com/search?q=%s -s https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%s xklb
https://www.google.com/search?q=xklb
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=xklb
library expand-links -s https://www.walmart.com/search?q=%s -s https://www.target.com/s?searchTerm=%s "Dr. Pepper" pepcidine
https://www.walmart.com/search?q=Dr%20Pepper
https://www.target.com/s?searchTerm=Dr%20Pepper
https://www.walmart.com/search?q=pepcidine
https://www.target.com/s?searchTerm=pepcidine
Open in browser
library expand-links ... --browser
library expand-links ... --browser chrome
Unstructured text -> compound nouns (stdin)
$ library nouns -h
usage: library nouns (stdin)
Extract compound nouns and phrases from unstructured mixed HTML plain text
xsv select text hn_comment_202210242109.csv | library nouns | sort | uniq -c | sort --numeric-sort
Unstructured text -> dates
$ library dates -h
usage: library dates ARGS_OR_STDIN
Parse dates
library dates 'October 2017'
2017-10-01
Unstructured text -> times
$ library times -h
usage: library times ARGS_OR_STDIN
Parse times
library times 'October 2017 3pm'
15:00:00
Unstructured text -> timestamps
$ library timestamps -h
usage: library timestamps ARGS_OR_STDIN
Parse timestamps
library timestamps 'October 2017 3pm'
2017-10-01T15:00:00
Rename JSON keys by substring match
$ library json-keys-rename -h
usage: library json-keys-rename --new-key 'old key substring' (stdin)
Rename/filter keys in JSON
echo '{"The Place of Birthings": "Yo Mama", "extra": "key"}' | library json-keys-rename --country 'place of birth'
{"country": "Yo Mama"}
Enumerate possible combinations
$ library combinations -h
usage: library combinations --PROPERTY OPTION
Enumerate the possible combinations of things that have multiple properties with more than one options
library combinations --prop1 opt1 --prop1 opt2 --prop2 A --prop2 B
{"prop1": "opt1", "prop2": "A"}
{"prop1": "opt1", "prop2": "B"}
{"prop1": "opt2", "prop2": "A"}
{"prop1": "opt2", "prop2": "B"}
Move files and merge folders in BSD/rsync style, rename if possible
$ library merge-mv -h
usage: library merge-mv SOURCE ... DEST [--simulate] [--ext EXT]
merging-move: combine file trees
The destination is ALWAYS a folder by default (`--dest-folder`).
Use `--dest-bsd` to mimick BSD/GNU default `mv` behavior
Use `--dest-file` to mimick BSD/GNU `mv --no-target-directory`
By default it won't matter if source folders end with a path separator or not
library merge-mv folder1 folder2/ # folder1 will be merged with folder2/
library merge-mv folder1/ folder2/ # folder1 will be merged with folder2/
--bsd mode: an ending path separator determines if each source is to be placed within or merged with the destination
library merge-mv --bsd folder1/ folder2/ # folder1 will be merged with folder2/
library merge-mv --bsd folder1 folder2/ # folder1 will be moved to folder2/folder1/
--parent mode: always include the parent folder name when merging
library merge-mv --parent folder1 folder2/ # folder1 will be moved to folder2/folder1/
library merge-mv --parent folder1/ folder2/ # folder1 will be moved to folder2/folder1/
library merge-mv --parent file1.txt folder2/ # file1 will be moved to folder2/file1_parent_folder/file1.txt
nb. This tool, like other library subcommands, only works on files. Empty folders will not be moved to the destination
Move files/folders without losing hierarchy metadata with --relative or relmv
Move fresh music to your phone every Sunday
# move last week music back to their source folders
library mv /mnt/d/sync/weekly/ /
# move new music for this week
library relmv (
library listen audio.db --local-media-only --where 'play_count=0' --random -L 600 -p f
) /mnt/d/sync/weekly/
Merge two or more file trees, check for conflicts before merging
$ library merge-folders -h
usage: library merge-folders [--replace] [--no-replace] [--simulate] SOURCES ... DESTINATION
Merge multiple folders with the same file tree into a single folder.
https://github.com/chapmanjacobd/journal/blob/main/programming/linux/misconceptions.md#mv-src-vs-mv-src
Trumps are new or replaced files from an earlier source which now conflict with a later source.
If you only have one source then the count of trumps will always be zero.
The count of conflicts also includes trumps.
cp files with reflink on mergerfs
$ library mergerfs-cp -h
usage: library mergerfs-cp SOURCE ... DEST [--simulate] [--ext EXT]
This command mirrors the behavior of BSD with regard to destination files and folders.
To force the destination to always be a folder, similar to `library mv`, use `--destination-folder`
Copy files with reflink and handle mergerfs mounts
library mergerfs-cp --dry-run d/files* d/folder2/
cp --interactive --reflink=always /mnt/d9/files1.txt /mnt/d9/folder2/files1.txt
...
btrfs fi du /mnt/d3/files1.txt /mnt/d3/folder2/files1.txt
Total Exclusive Set shared Filename
12.57GiB 0.00B 12.57GiB /mnt/d3/files1.txt
12.57GiB 0.00B 12.57GiB /mnt/d3/folder2/files1.txt
Scatter files between folders or disks
$ library scatter -h
usage: library scatter [--limit LIMIT] [--policy POLICY] [--sort SORT] --targets TARGETS DATABASE RELATIVE_PATH ...
Scatter filesystem folder trees (without mountpoints; limited functionality; good for balancing fs inodes)
library scatter scatter.db /test/{0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9}
Reduce number of files per folder (creates more folders)
library scatter scatter.db --max-files-per-folder 16000 /test/{0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9}
Balance files across filesystem folder trees or multiple devices (mostly useful for mergerfs)
Multi-device re-bin: balance by size
library scatter -m /mnt/d1:/mnt/d2:/mnt/d3:/mnt/d4/:/mnt/d5:/mnt/d6:/mnt/d7 fs.db subfolder/of/mergerfs/mnt
Current path distribution:
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│ mount │ file_count │ total_size │ median_size │ time_created │ time_modified │ time_downloaded│
╞═════════╪══════════════╪══════════════╪═══════════════╪════════════════╪═════════════════╪════════════════╡
│ /mnt/d1 │ 12793 │ 169.5 GB │ 4.5 MB │ Jan 27 │ Jul 19 2022 │ Jan 31 │
├─────────┼──────────────┼──────────────┼───────────────┼────────────────┼─────────────────┼────────────────┤
│ /mnt/d2 │ 13226 │ 177.9 GB │ 4.7 MB │ Jan 27 │ Jul 19 2022 │ Jan 31 │
├─────────┼──────────────┼──────────────┼───────────────┼────────────────┼─────────────────┼────────────────┤
│ /mnt/d3 │ 1 │ 717.6 kB │ 717.6 kB │ Jan 31 │ Jul 18 2022 │ yesterday │
├─────────┼──────────────┼──────────────┼───────────────┼────────────────┼─────────────────┼────────────────┤
│ /mnt/d4 │ 82 │ 1.5 GB │ 12.5 MB │ Jan 31 │ Apr 22 2022 │ yesterday │
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Simulated path distribution:
5845 files should be moved
20257 files should not be moved
╒═════════╤══════════════╤══════════════╤═══════════════╤════════════════╤═════════════════╤════════════════╕
│ mount │ file_count │ total_size │ median_size │ time_created │ time_modified │ time_downloaded│
╞═════════╪══════════════╪══════════════╪═══════════════╪════════════════╪═════════════════╪════════════════╡
│ /mnt/d1 │ 9989 │ 46.0 GB │ 2.4 MB │ Jan 27 │ Jul 19 2022 │ Jan 31 │
├─────────┼──────────────┼──────────────┼───────────────┼────────────────┼─────────────────┼────────────────┤
│ /mnt/d2 │ 10185 │ 46.0 GB │ 2.4 MB │ Jan 27 │ Jul 19 2022 │ Jan 31 │
├─────────┼──────────────┼──────────────┼───────────────┼────────────────┼─────────────────┼────────────────┤
│ /mnt/d3 │ 1186 │ 53.6 GB │ 30.8 MB │ Jan 27 │ Apr 07 2022 │ Jan 31 │
├─────────┼──────────────┼──────────────┼───────────────┼────────────────┼─────────────────┼────────────────┤
│ /mnt/d4 │ 1216 │ 49.5 GB │ 29.5 MB │ Jan 27 │ Apr 07 2022 │ Jan 31 │
├─────────┼──────────────┼──────────────┼───────────────┼────────────────┼─────────────────┼────────────────┤
│ /mnt/d5 │ 1146 │ 53.0 GB │ 30.9 MB │ Jan 27 │ Apr 07 2022 │ Jan 31 │
├─────────┼──────────────┼──────────────┼───────────────┼────────────────┼─────────────────┼────────────────┤
│ /mnt/d6 │ 1198 │ 48.8 GB │ 30.6 MB │ Jan 27 │ Apr 07 2022 │ Jan 31 │
├─────────┼──────────────┼──────────────┼───────────────┼────────────────┼─────────────────┼────────────────┤
│ /mnt/d7 │ 1182 │ 52.0 GB │ 30.9 MB │ Jan 27 │ Apr 07 2022 │ Jan 31 │
╘═════════╧══════════════╧══════════════╧═══════════════╧════════════════╧═════════════════╧════════════════╛
### Move 1182 files to /mnt/d7 with this command: ###
rsync -aE --xattrs --info=progress2 --remove-source-files --files-from=/tmp/tmpmr1628ij / /mnt/d7
### Move 1198 files to /mnt/d6 with this command: ###
rsync -aE --xattrs --info=progress2 --remove-source-files --files-from=/tmp/tmp9yd75f6j / /mnt/d6
### Move 1146 files to /mnt/d5 with this command: ###
rsync -aE --xattrs --info=progress2 --remove-source-files --files-from=/tmp/tmpfrj141jj / /mnt/d5
### Move 1185 files to /mnt/d3 with this command: ###
rsync -aE --xattrs --info=progress2 --remove-source-files --files-from=/tmp/tmpqh2euc8n / /mnt/d3
### Move 1134 files to /mnt/d4 with this command: ###
rsync -aE --xattrs --info=progress2 --remove-source-files --files-from=/tmp/tmphzb0gj92 / /mnt/d4
Multi-device re-bin: balance device inodes for specific subfolder
library scatter -m /mnt/d1:/mnt/d2 fs.db subfolder --group count --sort 'size desc'
Multi-device re-bin: only consider the most recent 100 files
library scatter -m /mnt/d1:/mnt/d2 -l 100 -s 'time_modified desc' fs.db /
Multi-device re-bin: empty out a disk (/mnt/d2) into many other disks (/mnt/d1, /mnt/d3, and /mnt/d4)
library scatter fs.db -m /mnt/d1:/mnt/d3:/mnt/d4 /mnt/d2
This tool is intended for local use. If transferring many small files across the network something like
[fpart](https://github.com/martymac/fpart) or [fpsync](https://www.fpart.org/fpsync/) will be better.
Find specific folders to move to different disks
$ library mv-list -h
usage: library mv-list [--limit LIMIT] [--lower LOWER] [--upper UPPER] MOUNT_POINT DATABASE
Free up space on a specific disk. Find candidates for moving data to a different mount point
The program takes a mount point and a xklb database file. If you don't have a database file you can create one like this
library fsadd --filesystem d.db ~/d/
But this should definitely also work with xklb audio and video databases
library mv-list /mnt/d/ video.db
The program will print a table with a sorted list of folders which are good candidates for moving.
Candidates are determined by how many files are in the folder (so you don't spend hours waiting for folders with millions of tiny files to copy over).
The default is 4 to 4000--but it can be adjusted via the --lower and --upper flags.
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Type "done" when finished
Type "more" to see more files
Paste a folder (and press enter) to toggle selection
Type "*" to select all files in the most recently printed table
Then it will give you a prompt
Paste a path:
Wherein you can copy and paste paths you want to move from the table and the program will keep track for you.
Paste a path: /mnt/d/75_MovieQueue/720p/s11/
26 selected paths: 162.1 GB ; future free space: 486.9 GB
You can also press the up arrow or paste it again to remove it from the list
Paste a path: /mnt/d/75_MovieQueue/720p/s11/
25 selected paths: 159.9 GB ; future free space: 484.7 GB
After you are done selecting folders you can press ctrl-d and it will save the list to a tmp file
Paste a path: done
Folder list saved to /tmp/tmp7x_75l8. You may want to use the following command to move files to an EMPTY folder target:
rsync -a --info=progress2 --no-inc-recursive --remove-source-files --files-from=/tmp/tmp7x_75l8 -r --relative -vv --dry-run / jim:/free/real/estate/
Show some relative mount stats
$ library mount-stats -h
usage: library mount-stats MOUNTPOINT ...
Print relative use and free for multiple mount points
lb mu (fd -td -d1 'd[0-9]+$' /mnt)
Relative disk dependence:
/mnt/d1: ###### 8.1%
/mnt/d2: ######### 12.2%
/mnt/d3: ######### 12.2%
/mnt/d4: ####### 9.5%
/mnt/d5: ####### 9.5%
/mnt/d6: ######### 12.2%
/mnt/d7: ######### 12.2%
/mnt/d8: ######### 12.2%
/mnt/d9: ######### 12.2%
Relative free space:
/mnt/d1: ##### 6.9%
/mnt/d2: ########### 13.8%
/mnt/d3: ######## 10.4%
/mnt/d4: ######## 10.5%
/mnt/d5: ###### 8.7%
/mnt/d6: ######### 11.8%
/mnt/d7: ######### 11.9%
/mnt/d8: ######### 12.2%
/mnt/d9: ########### 13.8%
Show large folders
$ library big-dirs -h
usage: library big-dirs PATH ... [--limit (4000)] [--depth (0)] [--sort-groups-by deleted | played]
See what folders take up space
library big-dirs ./video/
Filter folders by size
library big-dirs ./video/ -FS+10GB -FS-200GB
Filter folders by count
library big-dirs ./video/ -FC+300 -FC-5000
Filter folders by depth
library big-dirs ./video/ --depth 5
library big-dirs ./video/ -D 7
Load from fs database
library fs video.db --cols path,duration,size,time_deleted --to-json | library big-dirs --from-json
Only include files between 1MiB and 5MiB
library fs video.db -S+1M -S-5M --cols path,duration,size,time_deleted --to-json | library big-dirs --from-json
You can even sort by auto-MCDA ~LOL~
library big-dirs ./video/ -u 'mcda median_size,-deleted'
Find similar folders based on folder name, size, and count
$ library similar-folders -h
usage: library similar-folders PATH ...
Find similar folders based on foldernames, similar size, and similar number of files
library similar-folders ~/d/
group /home/xk/d/dump/datasets/*vector total_size median_size files
---------------------------------------------- ------------ ------------- -------
/home/xk/d/dump/datasets/vector/output/ 1.8 GiB 89.5 KiB 1980
/home/xk/d/dump/datasets/vector/output2/ 1.8 GiB 89.5 KiB 1979
Find similar folders based on ONLY foldernames, using the full path
library similar-folders --filter-names --full-path ~/d/
Find similar folders based on ONLY number of files
library similar-folders --filter-counts ~/d/
Find similar folders based on ONLY median size
library similar-folders --filter-sizes ~/d/
Find similar folders based on ONLY total size
library similar-folders --filter-sizes --total-size ~/d/
Read paths from dbs
library fs audio.db --cols path,duration,size,time_deleted --to-json | library similar-folders --from-json -v
Print only paths
library similar-folders ~/d/ -pf
/home/xk/d/dump/datasets/vector/output/
/home/xk/d/dump/datasets/vector/output2/
How I use it
library fs video.db --cols path,duration,size,time_deleted --to-json | library similar-folders --from-json -FS=+8G --filter-names --filter-counts --filter-durations
Clean file paths
$ library christen -h
usage: library christen [--run]
Rename files to be somewhat normalized
Default mode is simulate
library christen ~/messy/
To actually do stuff use the run flag
library christen . --run
You can optionally replace all the spaces in your filenames with dots
library christen --dot-space
Calculate a hash based on small file segments
$ library sample-hash -h
usage: library sample-hash [--same-file-threads 1] [--chunk-size BYTES] [--gap BYTES OR 0.0-1.0*FILESIZE] PATH ...
Calculate hashes for large files by reading only small segments of each file
library sample-hash ./my_file.mkv
The threads flag seems to be faster for rotational media but slower on SSDs
Compare files using sample-hash and other shortcuts
$ library sample-compare -h
usage: library sample-compare [--same-file-threads 1] [--chunk-size BYTES] [--gap BYTES OR 0.0-1.0*FILESIZE] PATH ...
Convenience subcommand to compare multiple files using sample-hash
Find similar files based on filename and size
$ library similar-files -h
usage: library similar-files PATH ...
Find similar files using filenames and size
library similar-files ~/d/
Find similar files based on ONLY foldernames, using the full path
library similar-files --filter-names --full-path ~/d/
Find similar files based on ONLY size
library similar-files --filter-sizes ~/d/
Read paths from dbs
library fs audio.db --cols path,duration,size,time_deleted --to-json | library similar-files --from-json -v
How I use it
library similar-files --filter-names --filter-durations --estimated-duplicates 3 .
Run LLMs across multiple files
$ library llm-map -h
usage: library llm-map LLAMA_FILE [paths ...] [--llama-args LLAMA_ARGS] [--prompt STR] [--text [INT]] [--rename]
Run a llamafile with a prompt including path names and file contents
Rename files based on file contents
library llm-map ./gemma2.llamafile ~/Downloads/booka.pdf --rename --text
cat llm_map_renames.csv
Path,Output
/home/xk/Downloads/booka.pdf,/home/xk/Downloads/Mining_Massive_Datasets.pdf
Using GGUF files
wget https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile/releases/download/0.8.9/llamafile-0.8.9
chmod +x ~/Downloads/llamafile-0.8.9
mv ~/Downloads/llamafile-0.8.9 ~/.local/bin/llamafile # move it somewhere in your $PATH
library llm-map --model ~/Downloads/llava-v1.5-7b-Q4_K.gguf --image-model ~/Downloads/llava-v1.5-7b-mmproj-Q4_0.gguf --prompt 'what do you see?' ~/Downloads/comp_*.jpg
Exploratory Data Analysis on table-like files
$ library eda -h
usage: library eda PATH ... [--table STR] [--end-row INT] [--repl]
Perform Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) on one or more files
Only 500,000 rows per file are loaded for performance purposes. Set `--end-row inf` to read all the rows and/or run out of RAM.
Multi-criteria Ranking for Decision Support
$ library mcda -h
usage: library mcda PATH ... [--table STR] [--end-row INT]
Perform Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) on one or more files
Only 500,000 rows per file are loaded for performance purposes. Set `--end-row inf` to read all the rows and/or run out of RAM.
library mcda ~/storage.csv --minimize price --ignore warranty
### Goals
#### Maximize
- size
#### Minimize
- price
| | price | size | warranty | TOPSIS | MABAC | SPOTIS | BORDA |
|----|---------|--------|------------|----------|------------|----------|---------|
| 0 | 359 | 36 | 5 | 0.769153 | 0.348907 | 0.230847 | 7.65109 |
| 1 | 453 | 40 | 2 | 0.419921 | 0.0124531 | 0.567301 | 8.00032 |
| 2 | 519 | 44 | 2 | 0.230847 | -0.189399 | 0.769153 | 8.1894 |
It also works with HTTP/GCS/S3 URLs
library mcda https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Academy_Award-winning_films --clean --minimize Year
### Goals
#### Maximize
- Nominations
- Awards
#### Minimize
- Year
| | Film | Year | Awards | Nominations | TOPSIS | MABAC | SPOTIS | BORDA |
|------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|--------|----------|---------------|-------------|----------|-------------|---------|
| 378 | Titanic | 1997 | 11 | 14 | 0.999993 | 1.38014 | 4.85378e-06 | 4116.62 |
| 868 | Ben-Hur | 1959 | 11 | 12 | 0.902148 | 1.30871 | 0.0714303 | 4116.72 |
| 296 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | 2003 | 11 | 11 | 0.8558 | 1.27299 | 0.107147 | 4116.76 |
| 1341 | West Side Story | 1961 | 10 | 11 | 0.837716 | 1.22754 | 0.152599 | 4116.78 |
| 389 | The English Patient | 1996 | 9 | 12 | 0.836725 | 1.2178 | 0.162341 | 4116.78 |
| 1007 | Gone with the Wind | 1939 | 8 | 13 | 0.807086 | 1.20806 | 0.172078 | 4116.81 |
| 990 | From Here to Eternity | 1953 | 8 | 13 | 0.807086 | 1.20806 | 0.172079 | 4116.81 |
| 1167 | On the Waterfront | 1954 | 8 | 12 | 0.785 | 1.17235 | 0.207793 | 4116.83 |
| 1145 | My Fair Lady | 1964 | 8 | 12 | 0.785 | 1.17235 | 0.207793 | 4116.83 |
| 591 | Gandhi | 1982 | 8 | 11 | 0.755312 | 1.13663 | 0.243509 | 4116.86 |
Plot table-like files. A CLI interface to matplotlib
$ library plot -h
usage: library plot PATH ... [--table STR] [--end-row INT]
Plot one or more files
Only 500,000 rows per file are loaded for performance purposes. Set `--end-row inf` to read all the rows and/or run out of RAM.
Print markdown tables from table-like files
$ library markdown-tables -h
usage: library markdown-tables PATH ... [--table STR] [--end-row INT] [--transpose] [--filetype]
Print tables from files as markdown
Only 500,000 rows per file are loaded for performance purposes. Set `--end-row inf` to read all the rows and/or run out of RAM.
Examples:
lb sdb example_dbs/cities.db places chic | lb table --from-json --transpose
## stdin:0
| 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
|-------------------------|------------|--------------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------|------------|
| title | Chiclayo | Chicago | Chico | Apalachicola | Chicoutimi |
| state | Lambayeque | Illinois | California | Florida | Québec |
| country | Peru | United States of America | United States of America | United States of America | Canada |
| u | PE | US | US | US | CA |
| latitude | -6.7629 | 41.8319 | 39.7286 | 29.7256 | 48.4333 |
| longitude | -79.8366 | -87.752 | -121.8364 | -84.9925 | -71.0667 |
| size | 22184 | 19571 | 40437 | 35467 | 28951 |
| interesting_avg | 141 | 1129 | 156 | 119 | 175 |
| interesting_spread | 1754 | 26919 | 2025 | 1297 | 3196 |
| boring_avg | 349 | 4332 | 136 | 382 | 628 |
| boring_spread | 4186 | 24220 | 2000 | 2432 | 3920 |
| pop_avg | 7530 | 12906 | 1350 | 378 | 3038 |
| pop_spread | 80471 | 80825 | 24196 | 1634 | 15249 |
| food_avg | 28 | 18 | 8 | 7 | 8 |
| food_spread | 153 | 417 | 51 | 27 | 26 |
| urban_avg | 60 | 38 | 11 | 2 | 22 |
| urban_spread | 80 | 99 | 45 | 2 | 71 |
| forest_avg | 11 | 55 | 82 | 77 | 72 |
| forest_spread | 27 | 155 | 264 | 186 | 203 |
| aqi_avg | 9 | 11 | 5 | 7 | 2 |
| aqi_max | 23 | 14 | 11 | 9 | 6 |
| coastline_avg | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 26 |
| slope_avg | 1542 | 420 | 3532 | 248 | 2071 |
| public_transport_avg | 8 | 34 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| public_transport_spread | 24 | 303 | 9 | 1 | 7 |
| hotel_count | 56 | 259 | 75 | 2561 | |
| airport_code | CIX,LOH | CMI,MDW,MKG | RDD,SMF | ECP,TLH | YBG |
| wifi | 37505 | 177564 | 171754 | 195347 | 150669 |
Print columns of table-like files
$ library columns -h
usage: library columns PATH ... [--table STR] [--start-row INT]
Print columns from table-like files
Only print column names
library columns https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Academy_Award-winning_films --cols name --table-index 0
Film
Year
Awards
Nominations
Diff large table-like files in chunks
$ library incremental-diff -h
usage: library incremental-diff PATH1 PATH2 [--join-keys JOIN_KEYS] [--table1 TABLE1] [--table2 TABLE2] [--table1-index TABLE1_INDEX] [--table2-index TABLE2_INDEX] [--start-row START_ROW] [--batch-size BATCH_SIZE]
See data differences in an incremental way to quickly see how two different files differ.
Data (PATH1, PATH2) can be two different files of different file formats (CSV, Excel) or it could even be the same file with different tables.
If files are unsorted you may need to use `--join-keys id,name` to specify ID columns. Rows that have the same ID will then be compared.
If you are comparing SQLite files you may be able to use `--sort id,name` to achieve the same effect.
To diff everything at once run with `--batch-size inf`
Check video and audio files for corruption via ffmpeg
$ library media-check -h
usage: library media-check [--chunk-size SECONDS] [--gap SECONDS OR 0.0-1.0*DURATION] [--delete-corrupt >0-100] [--full-scan] [--audio-scan] PATH ...
Defaults to decode 0.5 second per 10% of each file
library media-check ./video.mp4
Decode all the frames of each file to evaluate how corrupt it is
(scantime is very slow; about 150 seconds for an hour-long file)
library media-check --full-scan ./video.mp4
Decode all the packets of each file to evaluate how corrupt it is
(scantime is about one second of each file but only accurate for formats where 1 packet == 1 frame)
library media-check --full-scan --gap 0 ./video.mp4
Decode all audio of each file to evaluate how corrupt it is
(scantime is about four seconds per file)
library media-check --full-scan --audio ./video.mp4
Decode at least one frame at the start and end of each file to evaluate how corrupt it is
(scantime is about one second per file)
library media-check --chunk-size 5% --gap 99.9% ./video.mp4
Decode 3s every 5% of a file to evaluate how corrupt it is
(scantime is about three seconds per file)
library media-check --chunk-size 3 --gap 5% ./video.mp4
Delete the file if 20 percent or more of checks fail
library media-check --delete-corrupt 20% ./video.mp4
To scan a large folder use `fsadd`. I recommend something like this two-stage approach
library fsadd --delete-unplayable --check-corrupt --chunk-size 5% tmp.db ./video/ ./folders/
library media-check (library fs tmp.db -w 'corruption>15' -pf) --full-scan --delete-corrupt 25%
The above can now be done in one command via `--full-scan-if-corrupt`
library fsadd --delete-unplayable --check-corrupt --chunk-size 5% tmp.db ./video/ ./folders/ --full-scan-if-corrupt 15% --delete-corrupt 25%
Corruption stats
library fs tmp.db -w 'corruption>15' -pa
path count duration avg_duration size avg_size
--------- ------- ------------------- -------------- --------- ----------
Aggregate 907 15 days and 9 hours 24 minutes 130.6 GiB 147.4 MiB
Corruption graph
sqlite --raw-lines tmp.db 'select corruption from media' | lowcharts hist --min 10 --intervals 10
Samples = 931; Min = 10.0; Max = 100.0
Average = 39.1; Variance = 1053.103; STD = 32.452
each ∎ represents a count of 6
[ 10.0 .. 19.0] [561] ∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎
[ 19.0 .. 28.0] [ 69] ∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎
[ 28.0 .. 37.0] [ 33] ∎∎∎∎∎
[ 37.0 .. 46.0] [ 18] ∎∎∎
[ 46.0 .. 55.0] [ 14] ∎∎
[ 55.0 .. 64.0] [ 12] ∎∎
[ 64.0 .. 73.0] [ 15] ∎∎
[ 73.0 .. 82.0] [ 18] ∎∎∎
[ 82.0 .. 91.0] [ 50] ∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎
[ 91.0 .. 100.0] [141] ∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎
Estimate and execute potential disk space savings
$ library process-media -h
usage: library process-media DATABASE_OR_PATH
Running fsadd first to create a video database will be faster because it runs many files in parallel
library fsadd --video video.db ~/Videos/
library process-media video.db
But using media folder/file paths directly is also supported
library process-media ~/Videos/
Find invalid media to attempt to transcode or delete
library process-media --invalid --no-valid --delete-unplayable video.db
If not installed, related file extensions will be skipped during scan:
- FFmpeg is required for shrinking video and audio
- ImageMagick is required for shrinking images
- Calibre is required for shrinking eBooks
Inspired somewhat by https://nikkhokkho.sourceforge.io/?page=FileOptimizer
Shrink video/audio to AV1/Opus format (.mkv, .mka)
$ library process-ffmpeg -h
usage: library process-ffmpeg PATH ... [--always-split] [--split-longer-than DURATION] [--min-split-segment SECONDS] [--simulate]
Resize videos to max 1440x960px AV1 and/or Opus to save space
Convert audio to Opus. Optionally split up long tracks into multiple files.
fd -tf -eDTS -eAAC -eWAV -eAIF -eAIFF -eFLAC -eAIFF -eM4A -eMP3 -eOGG -eMP4 -eWMA -j4 -x library process --audio
Use --always-split to _always_ split files if silence is detected
library process-audio --always-split audiobook.m4a
Use --split-longer-than to _only_ detect silence for files in excess of a specific duration
library process-audio --split-longer-than 36mins audiobook.m4b audiobook2.mp3
Calculate how much space you could save via process-ffmpeg by running something like this:
numfmt --to=iec (sqlite-utils --no-headers --raw-lines ~/lb/video.db "select sum(size)-sum(duration*100000) from media where time_deleted=0 and video_count>=1 and video_codecs != 'av1' and size/duration > 100000")
numfmt --to=iec (sqlite-utils --no-headers --raw-lines ~/lb/audio.db "select sum(size)-sum(duration*18000) from media where time_deleted=0 and video_count=0 and audio_count>=1 and audio_codecs != 'opus' and size/duration > 18000")
Shrink images to AV1 image format (.avif)
$ library process-image -h
usage: library process-image PATH ...
Resize images to max 2400x2400px and format AVIF to save space
Calculate how much space you could save via process-image by running something like this:
numfmt --to=iec (sqlite-utils --no-headers --raw-lines image.db "select sum(size)-sum(100000) from media where time_deleted=0 and type like 'image/%' and type != 'image/avif' and size > 100000")
Shrink documents to HTML+AV1 image format (requires Calibre)
$ library process-text -h
usage: library process-text PATH ...
Repackage documents (PDF, ePub, etc) into HTML+AVIF to save space
Requires Calibre
Convert folders of images into image PDFs
$ library images-to-pdf -h
usage: library images-to-pdf PATH ...
Convert groups of images to PDF
library images-to-pdf folder_with_images/
library images-to-pdf page00*.jpg
library images-to-pdf page00*.avif # many file formats supported
Convert comics (CBZ, CBR) to PDF
library images-to-pdf my_ebook.cbr
library images-to-pdf https://site/my_ebook.cbz
Apply brightness, contrast, saturation, and sharpness adjustments to PDFs
$ library pdf-edit -h
usage: library pdf-edit PATH ...
Increase brightness
library pdfedit --brightness 120 scan001.pdf --output-path brighter_scan.pdf
library pdfedit -b 120 scan001.pdf -o brighter_scan.pdf
Increase or decrease brightness, contrast, color contrast, and sharpness
library pdfedit --brightness 105 --contrast 120 --saturation 80 --sharpness 110 scan001.pdf
library pdfedit -b 105 -c 120 -C 80 -s 110 scan001.pdf
Merge SQLite databases
$ library merge-dbs -h
usage: library merge-dbs SOURCE_DB ... DEST_DB [--only-target-columns] [--only-new-rows] [--upsert] [--pk PK ...] [--table TABLE ...]
Merge-DBs will insert new rows from source dbs to target db, table by table. If primary key(s) are provided,
and there is an existing row with the same PK, the default action is to delete the existing row and insert the new row
replacing all existing fields.
Upsert mode will update each matching PK row such that if a source row has a NULL field and
the destination row has a value then the value will be preserved instead of changed to the source row's NULL value.
Ignore mode (--only-new-rows) will insert only rows which don't already exist in the destination db
Test first by using temp databases as the destination db.
Try out different modes / flags until you are satisfied with the behavior of the program
library merge-dbs --pk path tv.db movies.db (mktemp --suffix .db)
Merge database data and tables
library merge-dbs --upsert --pk path tv.db movies.db video.db
library merge-dbs --only-target-columns --only-new-rows --table media,playlists --pk path --skip-column id audio-fts.db audio.db
library merge-dbs --pk id --only-tables subreddits audio.db reddit/81_New_Music.db
library merge-dbs --only-new-rows --pk subreddit,path --only-tables reddit_posts audio.db reddit/81_New_Music.db -v
To skip copying primary-keys from the source table(s) use --business-keys instead of --primary-keys
Split DBs using --where
library merge-dbs --pk path big.db specific-site.db -v --only-new-rows -t media,playlists -w 'path like "https://specific-site%"'
Copy play history
$ library copy-play-counts -h
usage: library copy-play-counts SOURCE_DB ... DEST_DB [--source-prefix x] [--target-prefix y]
Copy play count information between databases
library copy-play-counts phone.db audio.db --source-prefix /storage/6E7B-7DCE/d --target-prefix /mnt/d
Show disk usage
$ library disk-usage -h
usage: library disk-usage DATABASE [--sort-groups-by size | count] [--depth DEPTH] [PATH / SUBSTRING SEARCH]
Only include files smaller than 1kib
library disk-usage du.db --size=-1Ki
library du du.db -S-1Ki
| path | size | count |
|---------------------------------------|-----------|---------|
| /home/xk/github/xk/lb/__pycache__/ | 620 Bytes | 1 |
| /home/xk/github/xk/lb/.github/ | 1.7 kB | 4 |
| /home/xk/github/xk/lb/__pypackages__/ | 1.4 MB | 3519 |
| /home/xk/github/xk/lb/xklb/ | 4.4 kB | 12 |
| /home/xk/github/xk/lb/tests/ | 3.2 kB | 9 |
| /home/xk/github/xk/lb/.git/ | 782.4 kB | 2276 |
| /home/xk/github/xk/lb/.pytest_cache/ | 1.5 kB | 5 |
| /home/xk/github/xk/lb/.ruff_cache/ | 19.5 kB | 100 |
| /home/xk/github/xk/lb/.gitattributes | 119 Bytes | |
| /home/xk/github/xk/lb/.mypy_cache/ | 280 Bytes | 4 |
| /home/xk/github/xk/lb/.pdm-python | 15 Bytes | |
Only include files with a specific depth
library disk-usage du.db --depth 19
library du du.db -d 19
| path | size |
|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|----------|
| /home/xk/github/xk/lb/__pypackages__/3.11/lib/jedi/third_party/typeshed/third_party/2and3/requests/packages/urllib3/packages/ssl_match_hostname/__init__.pyi | 88 Bytes |
| /home/xk/github/xk/lb/__pypackages__/3.11/lib/jedi/third_party/typeshed/third_party/2and3/requests/packages/urllib3/packages/ssl_match_hostname/_implementation.pyi | 81 Bytes |
Group by extension
library exts du.db
library disk-usage du.db --group-by-extension
path size count
------ -------- -------
avi 1.8 GiB 5
webm 14.3 GiB 47
mkv 49.2 GiB 159
mp4 86.7 GiB 613
4 file extensions
Search a SQLite database
$ library search-db -h
usage: library search-db DATABASE TABLE SEARCH ... [--delete-rows]
Search all columns in a SQLite table. If the table does not exist, uses the table which startswith (if only one match)
library sdb tests/data/video.db media test.gif --to-json | jq
{
"id": 4,
"playlists_id": 1,
"size": 2145,
"time_created": 1713852795,
"time_modified": 1713852795,
"time_downloaded": 1723276940,
"video_count": 1,
"width": 82,
"height": 82,
"subtitle_count": 4,
"path": "/home/xk/github/xk/lb/tests/data/test.gif",
"type": "image/gif",
"video_codecs": "gif",
"fps": 10.0
}
Block a channel
$ library block -h
usage: library block DATABASE URL ...
Blocklist specific URLs (eg. YouTube channels, etc)
library block dl.db https://annoyingwebsite/etc/
Or URL substrings
library block dl.db "%fastcompany.com%"
Block videos from the playlist uploader
library block dl.db --match-column playlist_path 'https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVoczRgDnXDLWV1UJ_tO70VT_ON0tuEdm'
Or other columns
library block dl.db --match-column title "% bitcoin%"
library block dl.db --force --match-column uploader Zeducation
Display subdomains (similar to `library download-status`)
library block audio.db
subdomain count new_links tried percent_tried successful percent_successful failed percent_failed
------------------- ------- ----------- ------- --------------- ------------ -------------------- -------- ----------------
dts.podtrac.com 5244 602 4642 88.52% 690 14.86% 3952 85.14%
soundcloud.com 16948 11931 5017 29.60% 920 18.34% 4097 81.66%
twitter.com 945 841 104 11.01% 5 4.81% 99 95.19%
v.redd.it 9530 6805 2725 28.59% 225 8.26% 2500 91.74%
vimeo.com 865 795 70 8.09% 65 92.86% 5 7.14%
www.youtube.com 210435 140952 69483 33.02% 66017 95.01% 3467 4.99%
youtu.be 60061 51911 8150 13.57% 7736 94.92% 414 5.08%
youtube.com 5976 5337 639 10.69% 599 93.74% 40 6.26%
Find some words to block based on frequency / recency of downloaded media
library watch dl.db -u time_downloaded desc -L 10000 -pf | library nouns | sort | uniq -c | sort -g
...
183 ArchiveOrg
187 Documentary
237 PBS
243 BBC
...
List stored playlists
$ library playlists -h
usage: library playlists DATABASE
List of Playlists
library playlists
Search playlists
library playlists audio.db badfinger
path extractor_key title count
---------------------------------------------------------- --------------- ------------------------------ -------
https://music.youtube.com/channel/UCyJzUJ95hXeBVfO8zOA0GZQ ydl_Youtube Uploads from Badfinger - Topic 226
Aggregate Report of Videos in each Playlist
library playlists -p a
Print only playlist urls
Useful for piping to other utilities like xargs or GNU Parallel.
library playlists -p f
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7gXS9DcOm5-O0Fc1z79M72BsrHByda3n
Remove a playlist/channel and all linked videos
library playlists --delete-rows https://vimeo.com/canal180
Download media
$ library download -h
usage: library download DATABASE [--prefix /mnt/d/] --video [--subs] [--auto-subs] [--small] | --audio | --photos [--safe]
Files will be saved to <prefix>/<extractor>/. The default prefix is the current working directory.
By default things will download in a random order
library download dl.db --prefix ~/output/path/root/
But you can sort; eg. oldest first
library download dl.db -u m.time_modified,m.time_created
Limit downloads to a specified playlist URLs
library fs video.db --to-json --playlists https://www.youtube.com/c/BlenderFoundation/videos | library download --video video.db --from-json -
Limit downloads to a specified video URLs or substring
library download dl.db --include https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YE7VzlLtp-4
library download dl.db -s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YE7VzlLtp-4 # equivalent
Maximizing the variety of subdomains
library download photos.db --photos --image --sort "ROW_NUMBER() OVER ( PARTITION BY SUBSTR(m.path, INSTR(m.path, '//') + 2, INSTR( SUBSTR(m.path, INSTR(m.path, '//') + 2), '/') - 1) )"
Print list of queued up downloads
library download --print
Print list of saved playlists
library playlists dl.db -p a
Print download queue groups
library download-status audio.db
Check videos before downloading
library watch open_dir.db --online-media-only --loop --exit-code-confirm -i --action ask-keep -m 4 --start 35% --volume=0 -w 'height<720' -E preview
Assuming you have bound in mpv input.conf a key to 'quit' and another key to 'quit 4',
using the ask-keep action will mark a video as deleted when you 'quit 4' and it will mark a video as watched when you 'quit'.
For example, here I bind "'" to "KEEP" and "j" to "DELETE"
' quit
j quit 4
This is pretty intuitive after you use it a few times but another option is to
define your own post-actions
`--cmd5 'echo {} >> keep.txt' --cmd6 'echo {} >> rejected.txt'`
But you will still bind keys in mpv input.conf
k quit 5 # goes to keep.txt
r quit 6 # goes to rejected.txt
Download checked videos
library download --fs open_dir.db --prefix ~/d/dump/video/ -w 'id in (select media_id from history)'
Show download status
$ library download-status -h
usage: library download-status DATABASE
Print download queue groups
library download-status video.db
Simulate --safe flag
library download-status video.db --safe
Re-download deleted/lost media
$ library redownload -h
usage: library redownload DATABASE
If you have previously downloaded YouTube or other online media, but your
hard drive failed or you accidentally deleted something, and if that media
is still accessible from the same URL, this script can help to redownload
everything that was scanned-as-deleted between two timestamps.
List deletions
library redownload news.db
Deletions:
╒═════════════════════╤═════════╕
│ time_deleted │ count │
╞═════════════════════╪═════════╡
│ 2023-01-26T00:31:26 │ 120 │
├─────────────────────┼─────────┤
│ 2023-01-26T19:54:42 │ 18 │
├─────────────────────┼─────────┤
│ 2023-01-26T20:45:24 │ 26 │
╘═════════════════════╧═════════╛
Showing most recent 3 deletions. Use -l to change this limit
Mark videos as candidates for download via specific deletion timestamp
library redownload city.db 2023-01-26T19:54:42
...or between two timestamps inclusive
library redownload city.db 2023-01-26T19:54:42 2023-01-26T20:45:24
Show and manage playback history
$ library history -h
usage: library history [--frequency daily weekly (monthly) yearly] [--limit LIMIT] DATABASE [(all) watching watched created modified deleted]
View playback history
library history web_add.image.db
In progress:
play_count time_last_played playhead path title
------------ ------------------ ---------- --------------------------------------- -----------
0 today, 20:48 2 seconds https://siliconpr0n.org/map/COPYING.txt COPYING.txt
Show only completed history
library history web_add.image.db --completed
Show only completed history
library history web_add.image.db --in-progress
Delete history
Delete two hours of history
library history web_add.image.db --played-within '2 hours' -L inf --delete-rows
Delete all history
library history web_add.image.db -L inf --delete-rows
See also: library stats -h
library history-add -h
Add history from paths
$ library history-add -h
usage: library history-add DATABASE PATH ...
Add history
library history-add links.db $urls $paths
library history-add links.db (cb)
Items that don't already exist in the database will be counted under "skipped"
Show some event statistics (created, deleted, watched, etc)
$ library stats -h
usage: library stats DATABASE TIME_COLUMN
View watched stats
library stats video.db --completed
View download stats
library stats video.db time_downloaded --frequency daily
See also: library stats video.db time_downloaded -f daily --hide-deleted
View deleted stats
library stats video.db time_deleted
View time_modified stats
library stats example_dbs/web_add.image.db time_modified -f year
Time_Modified media:
year total_size avg_size count
------ ------------ ---------- -------
2010 4.4 MiB 1.5 MiB 3
2011 136.2 MiB 68.1 MiB 2
2013 1.6 GiB 10.7 MiB 154
2014 4.6 GiB 25.2 MiB 187
2015 4.3 GiB 26.5 MiB 167
2016 5.1 GiB 46.8 MiB 112
2017 4.8 GiB 51.7 MiB 95
2018 5.3 GiB 97.9 MiB 55
2019 1.3 GiB 46.5 MiB 29
2020 25.7 GiB 113.5 MiB 232
2021 25.6 GiB 96.5 MiB 272
2022 14.6 GiB 82.7 MiB 181
2023 24.3 GiB 72.5 MiB 343
2024 17.3 GiB 104.8 MiB 169
14 media
Search captions / subtitles
$ library search -h
usage: library search DATABASE QUERY
Search text databases and subtitles
library search fts.db boil
7 captions
/mnt/d/70_Now_Watching/DidubeTheLastStop-720p.mp4
33:46 I brought a real stainless steel boiler
33:59 The world is using only stainless boilers nowadays
34:02 The boiler is old and authentic
34:30 - This boiler? - Yes
34:44 I am not forcing you to buy this boiler…
34:52 Who will give her a one liter stainless steel boiler for one Lari?
34:54 Glass boilers cost two
Search and open file
library search fts.db 'two words' --open
Re-optimize database
$ library optimize -h
usage: library optimize DATABASE [--force]
Optimize library databases
The force flag is usually unnecessary and it can take much longer
Watch / Listen
$ library watch -h
usage: library watch DATABASE [optional args]
Control playback
To stop playback press Ctrl-C in either the terminal or mpv
Or use `lb next` or `lb stop`
Or create global shortcuts in your desktop environment by sending commands to mpv_socket
echo 'playlist-next force' | socat - /run/user/1000/mpv_socket # library listen default
echo 'playlist-next force' | socat - /home/xk/.config/mpv/socket # library watch default
If you prefer you can also send mpv the playlist, but this is incompatible with post-actions
mpv --playlist=(lb wt videos.db --ext mp4 -l 50 -p fw | psub) # fish shell, mark 50 videos as watched
mpv --playlist=<(lb wt videos.db --ext mp4 -p f) # BASH, all videos
Print an aggregate report of deleted media
library fs -w time_deleted!=0 -pa
path count duration size
--------- ------- ------------------ -------
Aggregate 337 2 days and 5 hours 1.6 GiB
Print an aggregate report of media that has no duration information (ie.
online media or corrupt local media)
library watch -w 'duration is null' -pa
Print a list of filenames which have below 1280px resolution
library watch -w 'width<1280' -pf
View how much time you have played
library watch -w play_count'>'0 -pa
View all the columns
library watch -p -L 1 --cols '*'
Open ipython with all of your media
library watch -vv -p --cols '*'
ipdb> len(media)
462219
View most recent files
library watch example_dbs/web_add.image.db -u time_modified desc --cols path,width,height,size,time_modified -p -l 10
path width height size time_modified
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------- -------- --------- -----------------
https://siliconpr0n.org/map/infineon/m7690-b1/single/infineon_m7690-b1_infosecdj_mz_nikon20x.jpg 7066 10513 16.4 MiB 2 days ago, 20:54
https://siliconpr0n.org/map/starchip/scf384g/single/starchip_scf384g_infosecdj_mz_nikon20x.jpg 10804 10730 19.2 MiB 2 days ago, 15:31
https://siliconpr0n.org/map/hp/2hpt20065-1-68k-core/single/hp_2hpt20065-1-68k-core_marmontel_mz_ms50x-1.25.jpg 28966 26816 192.2 MiB 4 days ago, 15:05
https://siliconpr0n.org/map/hp/2hpt20065-1-68k-core/single/hp_2hpt20065-1-68k-core_marmontel_mz_ms20x-1.25.jpg 11840 10978 49.2 MiB 4 days ago, 15:04
https://siliconpr0n.org/map/hp/2hpt20065-1/single/hp_2hpt20065-1_marmontel_mz_ms10x-1.25.jpg 16457 14255 101.4 MiB 4 days ago, 15:03
https://siliconpr0n.org/map/pervasive/e2213ps01e1/single/pervasive_e2213ps01e1_azonenberg_back_roi1_mit10x_rotated.jpg 18880 61836 136.8 MiB 6 days ago, 16:00
https://siliconpr0n.org/map/pervasive/e2213ps01e/single/pervasive_e2213ps01e_azonenberg_back_mit5x_rotated.jpg 62208 30736 216.5 MiB 6 days ago, 15:57
https://siliconpr0n.org/map/amd/am2964bpc/single/amd_am2964bpc_infosecdj_mz_lmplan10x.jpg 12809 11727 39.8 MiB 6 days ago, 10:28
https://siliconpr0n.org/map/unknown/ks1804ir1/single/unknown_ks1804ir1_infosecdj_mz_lmplan10x.jpg 6508 6707 8.4 MiB 6 days ago, 08:04
https://siliconpr0n.org/map/amd/am2960dc-b/single/amd_am2960dc-b_infosecdj_mz_lmplan10x.jpg 16434 15035 64.9 MiB 7 days ago, 19:01
10 media (limited by --limit 10)
How I use it
lb lt ~/lb/audio.db --local-media-only -k delete-if-audiobook -w play_count=0 --fetch-siblings each
lb wt ~/lb/video.db --local-media-only -k delete --cmd5 'echo skip'
When sorting videos
focus_under_mouse
lb wt ~/lb/sort.db --action ask_move_or_delete --keep-dir /home/xk/d/library/video/ --loop --exit-code-confirm -i --cmd130 exit_multiple_playback --cmd5 'library process-audio --no-preserve-video' --cmd6 'mv {} /mnt/d/library/vr/' -m 4 --start 35% --volume=0 -u size desc
focus_follows_mouse
On-the-go mobile smartphone mode (Android)
repeat lb wt ~/lb/video.db --player termux-open -L1 --refresh --action ask_move_or_delete --keep-dir ~/sync/video/keep/ --portrait -u duration desc
Show what is currently playing
$ library now -h
usage: library now
Print now playing
Play next file and optionally delete current file
$ library next -h
usage: library next
Go to the next track in the playqueue, optionally delete the currently playing media
Set playback to a certain time, fast-forward or rewind
$ library seek -h
usage: library seek
Seek to an exact time
library seek 5:30 # 5 minutes, 30 seconds
library seek 5:30:00 # 5 hours, 30 minutes
Seek forward or backward a relative duration
library seek +5:00 # 5 minutes forward
library seek +5: # 5 minutes forward
library seek +5 # 5 seconds forward
library seek 5 # 5 seconds forward
library seek -5 # 5 seconds backward
Stop all playback
$ library stop -h
usage: library stop
Stop playback (close mpv, turn off chromecast, etc)
Pause all playback
$ library pause -h
usage: library pause
Pause playback (pause mpv, pause chromecast, etc)
Open your tabs for the day
$ library tabs-open -h
usage: library tabs-open DATABASE
Tabs is meant to run **once per day**. Here is how you would configure it with `crontab`
45 9 * * * DISPLAY=:0 library tabs /home/my/tabs.db
If things aren't working you can use `at` to simulate a similar environment as `cron`
echo 'fish -c "export DISPLAY=:0 && library tabs /full/path/to/tabs.db"' | at NOW
Also, if you're just testing things out be aware that `tabs-add` assumes that you visited the
website right before adding it; eg. if you use `tabs-add --frequency yearly` today the tab won't
open until one year from now (at most). You can override this default
library tabs-add --allow-immediate ...
To re-"play" some tabs, delete some history
library history ~/lb/tabs.db --played-within '1 day' -L inf -p --delete-rows
library tabs ~/lb/tabs.db
You can also invoke tabs manually
library tabs -L 1 # open one tab
Print URLs
library tabs -w "frequency='yearly'" -p
View how many yearly tabs you have
library tabs -w "frequency='yearly'" -p a
Delete URLs
library tabs -p -s cyber
╒═══════════════════════════════════════╤═════════════╤══════════════╕
│ path │ frequency │ time_valid │
╞═══════════════════════════════════════╪═════════════╪══════════════╡
│ https://old.reddit.com/r/cyberDeck/to │ yearly │ Dec 31 1970 │
│ p/?sort=top&t=year │ │ │
├───────────────────────────────────────┼─────────────┼──────────────┤
│ https://old.reddit.com/r/Cyberpunk/to │ yearly │ Aug 29 2023 │
│ p/?sort=top&t=year │ │ │
├───────────────────────────────────────┼─────────────┼──────────────┤
│ https://www.reddit.com/r/cyberDeck/ │ yearly │ Sep 05 2023 │
╘═══════════════════════════════════════╧═════════════╧══════════════╛
library tabs -p -w "path='https://www.reddit.com/r/cyberDeck/'" --delete-rows
Removed 1 metadata records
library tabs -p -s cyber
╒═══════════════════════════════════════╤═════════════╤══════════════╕
│ path │ frequency │ time_valid │
╞═══════════════════════════════════════╪═════════════╪══════════════╡
│ https://old.reddit.com/r/cyberDeck/to │ yearly │ Dec 31 1970 │
│ p/?sort=top&t=year │ │ │
├───────────────────────────────────────┼─────────────┼──────────────┤
│ https://old.reddit.com/r/Cyberpunk/to │ yearly │ Aug 29 2023 │
│ p/?sort=top&t=year │ │ │
╘═══════════════════════════════════════╧═════════════╧══════════════╛
Open links from link dbs
$ library links-open -h
usage: library links-open DATABASE [search] [--title] [--title-prefix TITLE_PREFIX]
Open links from a links db
wget https://github.com/chapmanjacobd/library/raw/main/example_dbs/music.korea.ln.db
library open-links music.korea.ln.db
Only open links once
library open-links ln.db -w 'time_modified=0'
Print a preview instead of opening tabs
library open-links ln.db -p
library open-links ln.db --cols time_modified -p
Delete rows
Make sure you have the right search query
library open-links ln.db "query" -p -L inf
library open-links ln.db "query" -pa # view total
library open-links ln.db "query" -pd # mark as deleted
Custom search engine
library open-links ln.db --title --prefix 'https://duckduckgo.com/?q='
Skip local media
library open-links dl.db --online
library open-links dl.db -w 'path like "http%"' # equivalent
Auto-load browser tabs in a streaming way (stdin)
$ library surf -h
usage: library surf [--count COUNT] [--target-hosts TARGET_HOSTS] < stdin
Streaming tab loader: press ctrl+c to stop.
Open tabs from a line-delimited file
cat tabs.txt | library surf -n 5
You will likely want to use this setting in `about:config`
browser.tabs.loadDivertedInBackground = True
If you prefer GUI, check out https://unli.xyz/tabsender/
Dedupe SQLite tables
$ library dedupe-db -h
usage: library dedupe-dbs DATABASE TABLE --bk BUSINESS_KEYS [--pk PRIMARY_KEYS] [--only-columns COLUMNS]
Dedupe your database (not to be confused with the dedupe subcommand)
It should not need to be said but *backup* your database before trying this tool!
Dedupe-DB will help remove duplicate rows based on non-primary-key business keys
library dedupe-db ./video.db media --bk path
By default all non-primary and non-business key columns will be upserted unless --only-columns is provided
If --primary-keys is not provided table metadata primary keys will be used
If your duplicate rows contain exactly the same data in all the columns you can run with --skip-upsert to save a lot of time
Dedupe similar media
$ library dedupe-media -h
usage: library dedupe-media [--audio | --id | --title | --filesystem] [--only-soft-delete] [--limit LIMIT] DATABASE
Dedupe your files (not to be confused with the dedupe-db subcommand)
Exact file matches
library dedupe-media --fs video.db
Dedupe based on duration and file basename or dirname similarity
library dedupe-media video.db --duration --basename -s release_group # pre-filter with a specific text substring
library dedupe-media video.db --duration --basename -u m1.size # sort such that small files are treated as originals and larger files are deleted
library dedupe-media video.db --duration --basename -u 'm1.size desc' # sort such that large files are treated as originals and smaller files are deleted
Dedupe online against local media
library dedupe-media --compare-dirs video.db / http
Merge online and local data
$ library merge-online-local -h
usage: library merge-online-local DATABASE
If you have previously downloaded YouTube or other online media, you can dedupe
your database and combine the online and local media records as long as your
files have the youtube-dl / yt-dlp id in the filename.
Import mpv watchlater files to history
$ library mpv-watchlater -h
usage: library mpv-watchlater DATABASE [--watch-later-directory ~/.config/mpv/watch_later/]
Extract timestamps from MPV to the history table
Copy selftext links to media table
$ library reddit-selftext -h
usage: library reddit-selftext DATABASE
Extract URLs from reddit selftext from the reddit_posts table to the media table
Randomize tabs.db a bit
$ library tabs-shuffle -h
usage: library tabs-shuffle DATABASE
Moves each tab to a random day-of-the-week by default
It may also be useful to shuffle monthly tabs, etc. You can accomplish this like so
library tabs-shuffle tabs.db -d 31 -f monthly
library tabs-shuffle tabs.db -d 90 -f quarterly
library tabs-shuffle tabs.db -d 365 -f yearly
Convert pushshift data to reddit.db format (stdin)
$ library pushshift -h
usage: library pushshift DATABASE < stdin
Download data (about 600GB jsonl.zst; 6TB uncompressed)
wget -e robots=off -r -k -A zst https://files.pushshift.io/reddit/submissions/
Load data from files via unzstd
unzstd --memory=2048MB --stdout RS_2005-07.zst | library pushshift pushshift.db
Or multiple (output is about 1.5TB SQLite fts-searchable)
for f in psaw/files.pushshift.io/reddit/submissions/*.zst
echo "unzstd --memory=2048MB --stdout $f | library pushshift (basename $f).db"
library optimize (basename $f).db
end | parallel -j5
Update local media
$ library fs-update -h
usage: library fs-update DATABASE
Update each path previously saved
library fsupdate video.db
Update online video media
$ library tube-update -h
usage: library tube-update [--audio | --video] DATABASE
Fetch the latest videos for every playlist saved in your database
library tubeupdate educational.db
Fetch extra metadata
By default tubeupdate will quickly add media.
You can run with --extra to fetch more details: (best resolution width, height, subtitle tags, etc)
library tubeupdate educational.db --extra https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBsEUcR-ezAuxB2WlfeENvA/videos
Remove duplicate playlists
library dedupe-db video.db playlists --bk extractor_playlist_id
Update open-directory media
$ library web-update -h
usage: library web-update DATABASE
Update saved open directories
Update online gallery media
$ library gallery-update -h
usage: library gallery-update DATABASE
Check previously saved gallery_dl URLs for new content
Update a link-scraping database
$ library links-update -h
usage: library links-update DATABASE
Fetch new links from each path previously saved
library links-update links.db
Update reddit media
$ library reddit-update -h
usage: library reddit-update [--audio | --video] [--lookback N_DAYS] [--praw-site bot1] DATABASE
Fetch the latest posts for every subreddit/redditor saved in your database
library redditupdate edu_subreddits.db
Export HTML files from SQLite databases
$ library export-text -h
usage: library export-text DATABASE
Generate HTML files from SQLite databases
Process czkawka diff output
$ library dedupe-czkawka -h
usage: library dedupe-czkawka [--volume VOLUME] [--auto-seek] [--ignore-errors] [--folder] [--folder-glob [FOLDER_GLOB]] [--replace] [--no-replace] [--override-trash OVERRIDE_TRASH] [--delete-files] [--gui]
[--auto-select-min-ratio AUTO_SELECT_MIN_RATIO] [--all-keep] [--all-left] [--all-right] [--all-delete]
czkawka_dupes_output_path
Choose which duplicate to keep by opening both side-by-side in mpv
Chicken mode
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pip install --upgrade --ignore-installed urllib3 requests
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