Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/towerofnix/http-music

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+// Internal "crawler" that simply opens a file and returns the playlist stored
+// in that file. This can also open web URLs; it uses the same code that the
+// play option --open-playlist does.
+
+const {
+  downloadPlaylistFromOptionValue
+} = require('./general-util')
+
+async function crawl(input) {
+  return JSON.parse(await downloadPlaylistFromOptionValue(input))
+}
+
+async function main(args, shouldReturn = false) {
+  if (args.length !== 1) {
+    console.log("Usage: open-file /example/path.json")
+    console.log("Note that open-file is generally supposed to be used as a 'source' argument!")
+    console.log("So, for example, you could make a playlist that looks something like this:")
+    console.log('{"items": [')
+    console.log('  {"source": ["open-file", "jazz/playlist.json"]},')
+    console.log('  {"source": ["open-file", "noise/playlist.json"]}')
+    console.log(']}')
+    return
+  }
+
+  const playlist = await crawl(args[0])
+
+  const str = JSON.stringify(playlist, null, 2)
+  if (shouldReturn) {
+    return str
+  } else {
+    console.log(str)
+  }
+}
+
+module.exports = {crawl, main}