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Re: Download all youtube favorites with youtube-dl script

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Date 2013-09-26 11:21 -0400
Subject Re: Download all youtube favorites with youtube-dl script
From Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Message-ID <mailman.357.1380208880.18130.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Bill <Bill@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


-- 
Joel Goldstick
http://joelgoldstick.com

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Download all youtube favorites with youtube-dl script Bill <Bill@bill.com> - 2013-09-26 16:13 +0100
  Re: Download all youtube favorites with youtube-dl script Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com> - 2013-09-26 11:21 -0400
    Re: Download all youtube favorites with youtube-dl script Bill <bill@bill.com> - 2013-09-26 19:14 +0100
      Re: Download all youtube favorites with youtube-dl script MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2013-09-26 19:33 +0100
  Re: Download all youtube favorites with youtube-dl script Philipp Hagemeister <phihag@phihag.de> - 2013-09-26 17:35 +0200
    Re: Download all youtube favorites with youtube-dl script Bill <bill@bill.com> - 2013-09-26 19:15 +0100
  Re: Download all youtube favorites with youtube-dl script Thomas Kandler <hallo@thomaskandler.net> - 2013-09-27 09:27 +0200
    Re: Download all youtube favorites with youtube-dl script Bill <bill@bill.com> - 2013-09-27 20:50 +0100
      Re: Download all youtube favorites with youtube-dl script Thomas Kandler <hallo@thomaskandler.net> - 2013-09-27 22:19 +0200

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