Download all youtube favorites with youtube-dl script

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On 26/09/2013 19:14, Bill wrote:
> Joel Goldstick wrote:
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>> On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Bill <Bill at bill.com
>> <mailto:Bill at bill.com>> wrote:
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>>     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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>
> 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/
>