Feature request: Manually creating comment log files from json

[alexroston]

• [x] I am using the latest version of PyInstaLive: 3.2.2.
• [x] I have installed either Python 2.7.x or 3.5+: YOUR VERSION HERE
• [x] I have read the README.
• [x] I have read the FAQ.
• [x] I have checked all existing issues, none of which could solve my issue.

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• [x] Windows 10
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Question

Is it possible to create a command for "assembling" the comment json files as well? Sometimes, maybe because of connection lost, the application did not create the final video and comment log files. I could assemble the video files with the corresponding command manually, but --assemble will not work for comment json files as well.

[dvingerh]

I've committed some code for this earlier, you can already use it if you reinstall without specifying a version number. Will likely bump version to 3.2.3 next week depending on how https://github.com/dvingerh/PyInstaLive/issues/94 progresses

[alexroston]

Does it still check for the download folder to exist? Already deleted that folder and only got the comments.json. Isn't that enough to create the comments.log file?

[dvingerh]

Yes, only the comments.json file is required.

[alexroston]

Ok, nevertheless get this error:

pyinstalive --assemble ".\20200510_kamiyama_ryuji_0910_18066741298206293_1589116072_live_comments.json"
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
[I] PYINSTALIVE (SCRIPT V3.2.2 - PYTHON V3.8.0) - 05-25-2020 01:14:09 AM
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
[E] The segment directory does not exist or does not contain any files: .\20200510_kamiyama_ryuji_0910_18066741298206293_1589116072_live_comments
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Link to file

[dvingerh]

It's a separate command, --generate-comments

e.g

pyinstalive --generate-comments 20200514_username_17851495463058848_1589454554_live_comments.json

[UnixCro]

--assemble is only intended to create a video file from the .json file using the segment file directory if the value skip_merge = True has been set in the standard configuration file. But you want to generate a comment file, so use pyinstalive -gc /--generate-comments .json file

Thank you