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Download Entire YouTube Channel - all of a user's videos

Terminal - Download Entire YouTube Channel - all of a user's videos

yt-chanrip() { for i in $(curl -s http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/"$1"/uploads | grep -Eo "watch\?v=[^[:space:]\"\'\\]{11}" | uniq); do youtube-dl --title --no-overwrites http://youtube.com/"$i"; done }

2011-01-29 05:52:25

User: m1cawber

Functions: grep

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Download Entire YouTube Channel - all of a user's videos

create the function then run 'yt-chanrip username' to download that user's entire channel.

uses youtube-dl and the GData API. similar to http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/3154/download-youtube-playlist

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2011-02-02 01:12:26

User: AceSilvershadow

Functions: grep

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Download Entire YouTube Channel - all of a user's videos

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I'm new to all this and a little lost but would like to try this command. The user's name is GameShowNetwork so how would I run this command for that user? Thanks for this. :D

Comment by primetime34 377 weeks and 6 days ago

doh! this only does 25 at a time so should also be wrapped in another for loop, making it:

yt2p() { for count in 1 51 101 151 201; do for i in $(curl -s http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/"$1"/uploads\?start-index="$count"\&max-results=50 | grep -Eo "watch\?v=[^[:space:]\"\'\\]{11}" | uniq); do youtube-dl --title --no-overwrites http://youtube.com/"$i"; done; done }

just make sure the highest $count in the for loop is larger than the total number of vids the user has uploaded.

the grep regex could be improved to exclude false positives e.g. if the user wrote 'watch?v=SomeVideoID' in any of their video descriptions. meh, works ok for now

Comment by m1cawber 377 weeks and 6 days ago

primetime34 try:

yt-chanrip() { for count in 1 51 101 151 201 251 301; do for i in $(curl -s http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/"$1"/uploads\?start-index="$count"\&max-results=50 | grep -Eo "watch\?v=[^[:space:]\"\'\\]{11}" | uniq); do youtube-dl --title --no-overwrites http://youtube.com/"$i"; done; done }

then

yt-chanrip GameShowNetwork

sorry e1 for my screwups!

Comment by m1cawber 377 weeks and 6 days ago

youtube-dl doesn't always work.

I would use command #7718 instead to download the video.

Comment by RanyAlbeg 377 weeks and 5 days ago

I get the following error for every video

ERROR: unable to download video (format may not be available)

Thoughts?

Comment by primetime34 377 weeks and 5 days ago

primetime34, I'm not sure, first three vids started downloading for me on fedora14 with youtube-dl version 2010.12.09. try youtube-dl -U to update it.. otherwise you could dump all of the vid URLs to a file and try downloading them with 'youtube-dl --batch-file=FILE', or parse through them using a for loop and another download command such as #7718 as suggested above.. to dump URLs to file run:

for count in 1 51 101 151 201 251 301; do for i in $(curl -s http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/"GameShowNetwork"/uploads\?start-index="$count"\&max-results=50 | grep -Eo "watch\?v=[^[:space:]\"\'\\]{11}" | uniq); do echo "http://youtube.com/"$i"" >> FILE; done; done;

good luck

Comment by m1cawber 377 weeks and 5 days ago

I've made a script little prettier:

yt-chanrip() { for count in `seq 0 50 $(curl -s http://www.youtube.com/user/$1 | grep -E "id=\"playnav-playlist-uploads-count\" value=\"[[:digit:]]+" | grep -Eo "[[:digit:]]+")`; do for i in $(curl -s http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/"$1"/uploads\?start-index="$count"\&max-results=50 | grep -Eo "watch\?v=[^[:space:]\"\'\\]{11}" | uniq); do youtube-dl -citw http://youtube.com/"$i"; done; done }

now it auto-fetches the total number of user videos.

Comment by unjello 337 weeks and 5 days ago

can't make it work... trying it on cygwin... do I need something besides curl, youtube-dl script, python? it does nothing....

Comment by bidomo 318 weeks and 6 days ago

unjello: your video count fetching no longer works, I updated it to use the api:

yt-chanrip() { for count in `seq 1 50 $(curl -s http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/"$1" | grep -Eo "uploads' countHint='[[:digit:]]+'" | grep -Eo "[[:digit:]]+")`; do for i in $(curl -s http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/"$1"/uploads\?start-index="$count"\&max-results=50 | grep -Eo "watch\?v=[^[:space:]\"\'\\]{11}" | uniq); do youtube-dl -citw http://youtube.com/"$i"; done; done }

Comment by Kapow 317 weeks and 1 day ago

now that I look at it, youtube-dl could do this on its own the whole time...

youtube-dl -citw ytuser:[USERNAME]

Comment by Kapow 317 weeks and 1 day ago

now that I look at it, youtube-dl could do this on its own the whole time...

youtube-dl -citw ytuser:[USERNAME]

Comment by Kapow 317 weeks and 1 day ago