Download all youtube favorites with youtube-dl script

Bill

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Sep 26, 2013, 11:13:35 AM9/26/13

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I have been using the script 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?

Joel Goldstick

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Sep 26, 2013, 11:21:12 AM9/26/13

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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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Philipp Hagemeister

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Sep 26, 2013, 11:35:02 AM9/26/13

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Hi Bill,

the best way to ask for features or file bugs on youtube-dl is asking
us at http://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues . Luckily, I this list
from time to time ;)

Simply use

youtube-dl --username us...@gmail.com --password secret :ytfav

Best,

Philipp

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Bill

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Sep 26, 2013, 2:14:33 PM9/26/13

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Joel Goldstick wrote:
>
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Bill <Bi...@bill.com
> <mailto:Bi...@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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> <https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list>
>
>
> Have you looked at the youtube API? That would be better than screen
> scraping. https://developers.google.com/youtube/getting_started
>
>
> --
> Joel Goldstick
> http://joelgoldstick.com

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.

Same problem with favorties:
https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/adambuxton/favorites/

Bill

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Sep 26, 2013, 2:15:18 PM9/26/13

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If I can't figure this out myself, I'll be sure to do that.

Cheers

MRAB

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Sep 26, 2013, 2:33:35 PM9/26/13

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You _are_ missing something. That section of "#User_Uploaded_Videos"
mentions the parameters "start-index" and "max-results".

Thomas Kandler

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Sep 27, 2013, 3:27:55 AM9/27/13

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Regarding the uploads: most profiles do have something called 'Popular
Uploads' or 'Recent Uploads'. Hover with the mouse over the link, a
'play'-Button appears, click it, copy the URL (should have a &list
parameter), paste the URL in youtube-dl (or a txt-file) and it will
fetch all videos.

I am not sure if this works for favorites, too, but that's the way I do it.

Bill

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Sep 27, 2013, 3:50:30 PM9/27/13

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Hi.

A screenshot would help me locate it.

Cheers

Thomas Kandler

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Sep 27, 2013, 4:19:45 PM9/27/13

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On 27.09.2013 21:50, Bill wrote:
> Hi.
>
> A screenshot would help me locate it.
>
> Cheers

Sure. http://i.imgur.com/LvrNZYO.png

I don't thing *every* profile has this, but as I said, I use youtube-dl
quite often this way.

Best