This is a beautiful wrapper written entirely in BASH, extending bash-tui, and allows you to grab remote/local snapshots and combine them in a timelapse with music and text.
All this then can be uploaded on different platforms: as of now Youtube and Facebook. Youtube uploading comes from a repository here on github, whereas the Facebook upload is builtin by me.
timelapse-maker --date today --wrap sunset --facebook --fbvideo --music=3m --publish_at='9pm today'
Will create a time lapse from the pictures of TODAY, the length will be left up to the software (24fps is the configured default, as youtube uses 24), wrapping specifically only the sunset time. Will add music from the sub-directory '3m', Will post on Facebook the full video. And all this will be published at 9pm today.
timelapse-maker --datePatt="201901{19..22}" --length=90 --videoSize=820x458 (quotes are important for --datePatt)
Will create a 90 second time lapse from the pictures of the days between Jan 19th and Jan 22nd, and the video will be resized to 820x458.
The functionalities of this software go beyond these couple of tests, I will be documenting more and more
This is an extract of the help so far:
# timelapse-maker --help
Help generated by bashparms automagically for file /usr/local/bin/timelapse-maker
--astronomy
Generate astronomy details in description
--auth_creds
authentication file: If this file doesn't exist you have to authenticate manually!
--date
The date to timelapse, supports format of 'date --date'
--datePatt
the pattern you want to parse, eg: --datePatt="201804{20..22}" takes a 3 day timelapse
--description
The video description on YouTube
--dirFrames
with --reuseFrames is the local directory where the images are already
--downloadonly
if you just want to copy over the frames from the remote/local server
--dullFrames
When enabled, the software will compare each frame with the next with an algorithm I wrote and will discard if nothing happens, Generates a variable FPS effect.
--facebook
Post on facebook, by itself will perform a text post only
--fb_message
The message to post on acebook.
--fbvideo
Post the video just made on Facebook
--help
If you need help
--imgDir
Directory where you want to grab the images from
--imgServer
Server host/ip where to get the images from
--keep_writeln
Do not discard the Text frames generated with this procedure (deletes by default)
--length
Output video length: 180 secs = 3mins : default will calculate at 24fps
--music
Directory where to get the music from
--private
Youtube: make video private
--publish_at
Schedule your upload/post for a future time, supports the date --date format (eg. tomorrow, last monday, next week 3pm... and so on)
--qa
IN DEVELOPMENT: run a check on the timelapse that will be created and only release it if it's up to standard (eg. don't publish a timelapse if it's all grey because there was bad weather)
--reuseFrames
Reuse the frames already downloaded in a previous operation, do not download new ones.
--tags
Comma separated list of Video Tags for youtube, eg: "one,two,three and four,five"
--thumbnail
Path of a thumbnail, otherwise I'll chose a random image
--thumbType
Type of thumbnail, for now day,week,month
--timestamps
If you want to timestamp the frames
--title
The title of the video on youtube
--ts_left
Timestamp margin from the left in px
--ts_top
Timestamp: margin from the top in px
--unlisted
Youtube: make video unlisted
--videoSize
Size of the output video WxH, eg: 1920x1080
--volume
TODO: BROKEN: Adjust the volume of the music
--wrap
You can wrap your date by sunset,sunrise,daylight,nightsky
--writeln
Write in the timelapse, syntax begin_secs:end_secs:TEXT[:#COLOR[:X[:Y[:F_size[:F_style]]]]]
--youtube
If you want to upload your video on youtube
--youtube_playlist
Name of the youtube playlist
nightsky: will grab the time when the sun is already down daylight: will grab the time when the sun is up sunset: starts 1 hour* before the sun disappears in the horizon and the light dissipates. sunrise: starts when light starts appearing at the horizon and ends 1 hour* after.
- 1 hour is set in the configuration
fun_sunriseandfun_sunsetand it's an estimate of how long the event of the sun rising/setting is interesting for. May differ depending on your longitude.
I suggest you read the configuration directly from https://github.com/tokland/youtube-upload
Since I saw that Facebook had a cute API for video uploading in chunks I went for it, didn't take long.
You have the ability to upload the video directly on your Facebook page or feed, all you need is to get a "Page access token" (https://developers.facebook.com/docs/pages/access-tokens/) and place the token in /etc/timelapse-maker/auth/facebook-auth as
PAGE_TOKEN=YOUR_TOKEN
PAGE_NAME=YOUR_PAGE_NAME
- ffmpeg : (https://www.ffmpeg.org/)
- ImageMagick : (https://www.imagemagick.org/)
- Astronomicon: https://github.com/CaViCcHi/AstroNomicon.sh or the machine won't know when is sunset/sunrise and other times of day
- Bash-Tui: https://github.com/CaViCcHi/bash-tui using the basic libraries like say with its colors or bashparms
- Youtube-Upload: https://github.com/tokland/youtube-upload for uploading the youtube videos.
I might shed the bash-tui requirements later in time if anyone is interested in this project alone, so I might just combine what's needed.
2 spaces.
Everyone more or less "speaks" bash and can easily edit anything from this script for his personal use