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Problem

I like movies, but because I'm a fairly busy and lazy guy (mostly lazy) I don't have the time to find and curate my own list of stuff I'd like to watch. I prefer that someone else do that for me. That's why I like The Verge's "New trailers you have watch" series - it makes it easier for me to just peruse the latest trailers and decide what to invest my time in. Still, even with that I have to visit the site regularly to check if there's any new content. Like I said, I'm busy and frankly ain't nobody (I just realised that this is a double negative) got time for dat.

ain't nobody got time for that

Solution

This is a shell script that scrapes The Verge's Film archives for trailers and collates them into a single page which is far much easier (I think it is) to browse because it only contains the trailers, nothing else. This probably could have been easily achieved using a RSS client with a simple filter, but where's the fun in that.

If you spot any noob errors in there, don't judge me harsly, I wrote this while taking this Unix Tools course.

Contribution

If you find errors, or have any improvements/recommendations feel free to open an issue. I'd appreciate it.