better, more reliable scraping

config.sh

@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@
 # South Park Downloader Configuration File #
 ############################################
 
-# Relative or absolute paths are allowed. Please DON'T use ~/, but rather $HOME or /home/$USER.
+# Absolute paths or paths relative to the executable are allowed.
+# Please DON'T use ~/, but rather $HOME or /home/$USER.
 
 # youtube-dl (or youtube-dlc) executable path
 YOUTUBE_DL="./yt-dlc/youtube-dlc"

southpark-downloader.sh

@@ -1,14 +1,17 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 
-source "$(dirname "$0")/config.sh"
+# Resolve executable directory
+DIR="$(dirname "$(readlink -e "$0")")"
 
-# Turn paths into absolute ones, if they aren't already. Will be necessary, since we'll change directories later.
+source "$DIR/config.sh"
+
+# Turn paths into absolute ones if they aren't already. Will be necessary since we'll change directories later.
 [ ! "${CACHEDIR::1}" = "/" ] &&
-	CACHEDIR="$(readlink -f "$(dirname "$0")/$CACHEDIR")"
+	CACHEDIR="$DIR/$CACHEDIR"
 [ ! "${OUTDIR::1}" = "/" ] &&
-	OUTDIR="$(readlink -f "$(dirname "$0")/$OUTDIR")"
+	OUTDIR="$DIR/$OUTDIR"
 [ ! "${YOUTUBE_DL::1}" = "/" ] &&
-	YOUTUBE_DL="$(readlink -f "$(dirname "$0")/$YOUTUBE_DL")"
+	YOUTUBE_DL="$DIR/$YOUTUBE_DL"
 
 [ ! -e "$OUTDIR" ] && mkdir -p "$OUTDIR"
 [ ! -e "$CACHEDIR" ] && mkdir -p "$CACHEDIR"
@@ -37,7 +40,7 @@ usage() {
 	echo " -d                                        -  Dry run: don't download, just print out URLs"
 }
 
-unset OPT_SEASON OPT_EPISODE OPT_ALL OPT_EN OPT_LANG OPT_PROGRESS OPT_UPDATE_INDEX OPT_DRY
+unset OPT_SEASON OPT_EPISODE OPT_ALL OPT_EN OPT_LANG OPT_PROGRESS OPT_UPDATE_INDEX OPT_UPDATE_INDEX_EXPLICIT OPT_DRY
 OPT_LANG="EN"
 OPT_PROGRESS=true
 OPT_UPDATE_INDEX=true
@@ -72,6 +75,7 @@ while getopts "pPEDuUdas:e:h" arg; do
 			;;
 		u)
 			OPT_UPDATE_INDEX=true
+			OPT_UPDATE_INDEX_EXPLICIT=true
 			;;
 		U)
 			unset OPT_UPDATE_INDEX
@@ -89,26 +93,26 @@ done
 if [ "$OPT_LANG" = "DE" ]; then
 	INDEX_FILENAME="$CACHEDIR/_episode_index_DE_"
 	INDEX_INITIAL_URL="https://www.southpark.de/folgen/940f8z/south-park-cartman-und-die-analsonde-staffel-1-ep-1"
-	REGEX_EPISODE_URL="\"/folgen/[0-9a-z]\+/south-park-[0-9a-z-]\+-staffel-[0-9]\+-ep-[0-9]\+\""
+	REGEX_EPISODE_URL="/folgen/[0-9a-z]\\+/south-park-[0-9a-z-]\\+-staffel-[0-9]\\+-ep-[0-9]\\+"
 elif [ "$OPT_LANG" = "EN" ]; then
 	INDEX_FILENAME="$CACHEDIR/_episode_index_EN_"
 	INDEX_INITIAL_URL="https://www.southpark.de/en/episodes/940f8z/south-park-cartman-gets-an-anal-probe-season-1-ep-1"
-	REGEX_EPISODE_URL="\"/en/episodes/[0-9a-z]\+/south-park-[0-9a-z-]\+-season-[0-9]\+-ep-[0-9]\+\""
+	REGEX_EPISODE_URL="/en/episodes/[0-9a-z]\\+/south-park-[0-9a-z-]\\+-season-[0-9]\\+-ep-[0-9]\\+"
 fi
 
 update_index() {
 	[ ! -e "$INDEX_FILENAME" ] && echo "$INDEX_INITIAL_URL" > "$INDEX_FILENAME"
 	echo -ne "\e[32m>>> Updating episode index\e[m"
 	while true; do
-		local URL="$(tail -n1 "$INDEX_FILENAME")"
+		local SEEDURL="$(tail -n1 "$INDEX_FILENAME" | tr -d '\n')"
-		local NEWURLS="$(curl -s "$URL" | grep -o "$REGEX_EPISODE_URL" | tr -d "\"" | sed -E "s/^/https:\/\/www.southpark.de/g")"
+		local HTML="$(curl -s "$SEEDURL")"
-		[ "$URL" = "$(printf "$NEWURLS" | tail -n1)" ] && break
+		local URLS="$(echo -n "$HTML" | sed 's@</a>@\n@g' | sed -n "s@.*href=\"\\($REGEX_EPISODE_URL\\)\".*@\\1@p" | sed "s@^@https://www.southpark.de@g")"
+		# The sed command only retains all matches after the seed URL
+		local NEWURLS="$(echo -n "$URLS" | sed -n "\\@^$SEEDURL\$@{:1;n;p;b1}")"
+		[ -z "$NEWURLS" ] && break
 		echo "$NEWURLS" >> "$INDEX_FILENAME"
 		echo -ne "\e[32m.\e[m"
 	done
-	# The awk command removes duplicate lines
-	local NEW_INDEX="$(awk '!x[$0]++' "$INDEX_FILENAME")"
-	printf "$NEW_INDEX" > "$INDEX_FILENAME"
 	echo
 }
 
@@ -233,6 +237,8 @@ elif [ -n "$OPT_ALL" ]; then
 	[ -n "$OPT_UPDATE_INDEX" ] && update_index
 	p_info "Going to download ALL episodes"
 	download_all
+elif [ -n "$OPT_UPDATE_INDEX_EXPLICIT" ] && [ -n "$OPT_UPDATE_INDEX" ]; then
+	update_index
 else
 	usage
 	exit 1