On 26/09/2013 19:14, Bill wrote:
Joel Goldstick wrote:
On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Bill <b...@bill.com
<mailto:b...@bill.com>> wrote:
I have been using the script youtube-dl
http://rg3.github.io/youtube-__dl/ <http://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/>
And I was wondering if there is a way to download all of a user's
favorites or uploads.
The script has a functionality to download all videos in a txt file.
So if there is a way using the youtube API or JSON (none of which I
am familiar with) to bring up a list of all these videos then it'd
be a simple case putting these urls into a file.
The problem is youtube displays favorites or user uploads in pages
or infinite scroll. So it is difficult to access them by the
BeautifulSoup module.
What do you suggest?
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Have you looked at the youtube API? That would be better than screen
scraping. https://developers.google.com/youtube/getting_started
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I remember looking at this a while ago. These are the relevant sections
of the API:
https://developers.google.com/youtube/2.0/developers_guide_protocol?hl=en#User_Uploaded_Videos
https://developers.google.com/youtube/2.0/developers_guide_protocol?hl=en#Favorite_Videos
The problem with the API is that with both of these, it only brings up
25 videos e.g. https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/scooby1961/uploads
Unless I'm missing something? There must be a way to bring up all of
them on one page right? Or at least cycle through the rest of them.
You _are_ missing something. That section of "#User_Uploaded_Videos"
mentions the parameters "start-index" and "max-results".
Same problem with favorties:
https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/adambuxton/favorites/
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