Download Entire YouTube Channel - all of a user's videos
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-1yt-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 }
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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 nowyt-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 }thenyt-chanrip GameShowNetworksorry e1 for my screwups!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 luckyt-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.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 }youtube-dl -citw ytuser:[USERNAME]youtube-dl -citw ytuser:[USERNAME]