materially it's just comments. still though.

yt-data-pull.sh

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+#!/bin/bash
+# while read p; do ./yt-data-pull.sh $p; done<fastlist.txt
+. ~/.profile
+. ~/.bashrc
+
+function chat(){
+	msgString=$@
+	curl -XPOST \
+    	-d "$(jq -cn  --arg msgtype 'm.text' --arg body "$msgString" '{msg: $ARGS.named}' | jq -s add | jq .msg)" \
+    	"https://greyn.club:8448/_matrix/client/r0/rooms/$chatTarget/send/m.room.message?access_token=$chatToken"
+}
+
+videoID=$1
+
+if [[ -d $2 ]] ; then
+	echo "$2 exists"
+else
+	mkdir $2
+fi
+pushd $2 
+
+chatToken=$3
+chatTarget=$4
+
+
+yt-dlp --skip-download --cookies-from-browser firefox "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=$videoID"
+sleep 5; 
+yt-dlp --skip-download --cookies-from-browser firefox "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=$videoID"
+sleep 5; 
+# theoretically this should work, but youtube thinks wget is a crime
+# (when *you* do it. rules for thee not for me, of course.)
+yt-dlp \
+	--write-comments --skip-download \
+	--dump-single-json \
+	"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=$videoID" \
+	>info.json
+
+cat info.json | jq -r .comments[].id >commentids.txt
+touch done.txt
+
+while read cid
+do
+	echo "cid: --> $cid."
+	if grep "$cid" done.txt
+	then
+		#already seen
+		echo "already seen $cid"
+	else
+		cat info.json | jq .comments[] | jq 'select(.id=="'$cid'")'>thiscomment.json
+		echo $cid >>done.txt
+		message="[YT]/[$(cat info.json | jq -r .title)]/[$(cat thiscomment.json | jq -r .author)]: $(cat thiscomment.json | jq -r .text)"
+		rm thiscomment.json
+		chat $message
+	fi
+done<commentids.txt
+rm commentids.txt
+
+jq .comments[] ./info.json | jq --raw-output '[.id, .parent, .timestamp, .author_url, .author, .text] | @csv' >comments.csv
+
+popd