Download all youtube favorites with youtube-dl script

[Joel Goldstick]

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