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From: Thomas Kandler <hallo@thomaskandler.net>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
Subject: Re: Download all youtube favorites with youtube-dl script
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 09:27:55 +0200
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On 26.09.2013 17:13, Bill wrote:
> 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?

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.