Script to purge boxee queue

[rogersb]

I got tired of manually deleting things from my queue and it had grown far too large to be manageable, so I put together a quick and dirty script to do it automatically. It's written in bash, so you'll need linux or something similar (cygwin?) to get it working. It needs curl to work. If anyone wants to make a more user friendly tool based on this, have at it.

#!/bin/bash
# Script to clean boxee queue

# OPTIONS
# subs = Purge Subscriptions
# bookmarks = Purge Bookmarklets
# all = Everything, subscriptions, bookmarks, locally added items

#Enter your username/password here
user=
pass=

if [ -z "$1" ]
then
  echo "Must specify option.  subs=Purge Subs, bookmarks=Purge Bookmarks, all=everything."
  exit 0
fi

# Make sure user/pass is filled
if [[ -z "$user" || -z "$pass" ]]
then
  echo "Edit script and add your username and/or password"
  exit 0
fi

# Get fresh copy of queue
wget -nv -m -nd --user=$user --password=$pass http://app.boxee.tv/api/get_queue

case "$1" in 
'subs')
  echo "Purging Subscriptions"
for item in `cat get_queue |sed 's:<last>:</last>\n:'|awk '/subscription/ {print $4}'|sed -e 's/referral="//g' -e 's/"//g'`
do
  echo "Deleting referral # $item"
  curl --url "http://app.boxee.tv/action/add" --data "<message type=\"dequeue\" referral=\"$item\"></message>" -H "Content-Type: text/xml" -u "$user":"$pass"
done
;;
'bookmarks')
  echo "Purging Bookmarklets"
  for item in `cat get_queue |sed 's:<last>:</last>\n:'|awk '/booklet/ {print $4}'|sed -e 's/referral="//g' -e 's/"//g'`
  do
    echo "Deleting referral # $item"
    curl --url "http://app.boxee.tv/action/add" --data "<message type=\"dequeue\" referral=\"$item\"></message>" -H "Content-Type: text/xml" -u "$user":"$pass"
  done
;;
'all')
  echo "Purging all items"
  for item in `cat get_queue |sed 's:<last>:</last>\n:'|awk '/referral/ {print $4}'|sed -e 's/referral="//g' -e 's/"//g'`
  do
    echo "Deleting referral # $item"
    curl --url "http://app.boxee.tv/action/add" --data "<message type=\"dequeue\" referral=\"$item\"></message>" -H "Content-Type: text/xml" -u "$user":"$pass"
  done
;;
esac

[Wi1d]

Awesome and many thanks. Worked like a charm. I had a grotesque amount of items that needed to be clean. If anyone has trouble using try un-commenting line 27.

[rogersb]

Good catch W1ld. Sorry about that, I disabled that during testing so I wasn't hitting boxee's server for a new copy every time I did a test, and forgot to uncomment it when I posted it. I edited the original post and took out the comment.

[t3ckn0b0y]

would it be possible 2 create a script that would check for links that are dead, where the videos have been removed from their sources and left the ones that are still available for viewing. cleaning out only the ones that are not available anymore, and possibly removing the ones that have been watched also?

[rogersb]

Interesting idea, I'm sure it could be done, the trick is finding all the different ways a link could be dead. A 404 error is easy, but being redirected because it's been taken off youtube or expired on hulu could be a little more involved to detect. I'll play around with it and see what it looks like.

[saurabhg18]

how would i run this script on mac?
with little googling i was able to save it in .sh format in terminal and run it.
but looks like wget is not for mac.
i tried installing it but am not that techie yet
i also tried curl instead of wget, but looks like the -m is something bothering it.
Thanks for the script in advance..
i hope i would be able to run it.

[rogersb]

I don't have any mac experience, but check out
http://wget.darwinports.com/

there's also http://curl.darwinports.com/ but it sounds like you've got that part working.

[azzad10]

thanks worked a treat - had 121 items that I needed clears ( heaps got added when I changed region filter - all favourite shows updated)

[niamu]

rogersb, thanks so much for posting this. I have started to take the information that you've provided and put it in my own little web app to make things easier. Still needs testing, but it's a start and works just fine if all you have are YouTube links: https://github.com/niamu/boxee-watchlater

Demo page: http://brendonwalsh.me/boxee/

Thanks again for your work!