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+title: "Scraping and Grabbing Now! albums"
+date: 2018-12-04T16:28:00
+tags: ["guides", "linux", "lists", "music", "servers", "snippets", "software"]
+---
+
+Recently a collegue at work came to me to download them an album from online, unfortunately as it was a compilation album and the individual tracks had been released a million times already this wasn't to be released through the usual channels.
+
+No matter though, vague scripting to the rescue! The tracklist that I was after was available on the [now website](https://www.nowmusic.com/album/now-rock-n-roll/) which had no issues being scraped.
+
+```
+source=$(wget https://www.nowmusic.com/album/now-rock-n-roll/ -qO-)
+artists=$(printf "$source" | grep artist | sed 's/^.*>\([^<]*\)<.*$/\1/')
+titles=$(printf "$source" | grep \"title\" | sed 's/^.*>\([^<]*\)<.*$/\1/')
+paste <(printf "$artists") <(printf "$titles") | sed -e 's/\t/ - /g' > parse_list.txt
+```
+
+Now we have all 73 tracks in a single text file, no fuss, no muss.
+
+All of these tracks are incredibly likely to be uploaded to youtube, so we can grab them using the ever-excellent `youtube-dl`
+
+To manage this, we'll run a youtube search on every entry, and grab the resulting output, converting it to `mp3` along the way.
+
+```
+while read line; do youtube-dl -x --audio-format=mp3 ytsearch:"$line lyrics"; done < parse_list.txt
+```
+
+Please note, I append a " lyrics" in the search string to avoid too obvious music videos that sometimes have 
+
+With this, we have 73 `mp3` files dumped into our working directory with messy filenames. I usually throw these into `beets` in singleton mode via docker to improve the quality of the filenames/tags.
+
+```
+docker run -it -v $(pwd):/music linuxserver/beets bash
+beet im -s /music
+```
+
+This will take some time, and will need a lot of nannying as there are no existing tags to work with initially. After the process however you'll be rewarded with tagged files ready to (rock 'n) roll.
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