Download all youtube favorites with youtube-dl script

Bill bill at bill.com
Fri Sep 27 15:50:30 EDT 2013


Thomas Kandler wrote:
> 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.
>

Hi.

A screenshot would help me locate it.

Cheers



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