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April 27, 2021 01:08 pm GMT

Batch with Node.js

Premise

Let's say that your aunt comes to you asking a favor.

She has this pen drive with A LOT of folders containing mp3s and by what she believes her car cannot read recursively all the folders so she needs one root folder containing all the mp3s.

The USB drive is structured as below:

songs |      folder_1 |               foo.mp3               another-foo.mp3      folder_2 |               bar.mp3               another-bar.mp3...

And we need to reach this result:

output |       foo.mp3       another-foo.mp3       bar.mp3       another-bar.mp3...

Given this overview, you have two option to do this:

  • Do it manually.
  • Leave a like to this post.

To start we're gonna create a folder, let's call it batch-node.
Inside that folder I've copied the songs folder (above) and I've created an index.js file.
So this is now my batch-node structure:

batch-node |           index.js           songs/...

For this purpose we'll use fs-extra since copy/paste seems like not supported by fs API.

Just add it:

yarn add fs-extra

Let's starting coding.

// index.js/** * fs-extra adds file system methods that aren't included in the native * fs module and adds promise support to the fs methods. */const fs = require("fs-extra");const MP3_DIRECTORY = './songs'const OUTPUT = './output'

Be carefull, do not create output/ folder since fs-extra will handle this for us otherwise it won't work.

The script is composed by 2 main functions:

  • a readDirectory to, of course, read a folder and its content.
  • and a copyToDestination function to copy our song to the folder destination.

Let's add these functions to our index.js:

const copyToDestination = ({ path, file }) => {    try {        const fileFormat = path.split('.').pop()        const isMP3 = fileFormat === 'mp3'        if (!isMP3) return        // @see https://stackoverflow.com/a/40019824        fs.copySync(path, `${OUTPUT}/${file}`)        console.log(`${ file } has been copied to ${ OUTPUT }`)    } catch(error) {        console.error({ error })    }}const readDirectory = dir_name => {    fs.readdir(dir_name,        { withFileTypes: false },        (error, files) => {            try {                files.forEach(file => {                    const path = `${dir_name}/${file}`                    // @see https://nodejs.org/docs/latest/api/fs.html#fs_stats_isdirectory                    const isDir = fs.lstatSync(path).isDirectory()                    const config = { file, path }                    return isDir ? readDirectory(path) : copyToDestination(config)                })            } catch (error) {                console.error({ error });            }        }    )}

Pay attention to these lines:

     const fileFormat = path.split('.').pop()     const isMP3 = fileFormat === 'mp3'     if (!isMP3) return

Since we have different types of files inside folders (like covers album, ini files and many more) we're returning the function to totally ignore these kinds of file.

Finally we just have to lunch our function at the end of our index.js:

readDirectory(MP3_DIRECTORY)

Some logs

This should avoid you some boring manual stuff


Original Link: https://dev.to/alligatore3/batch-with-node-js-3nlk

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