Download YouTube movies and Auto-Number Them

--D. Thiebaut (talk) 10:15, 23 March 2014 (EDT)

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YouTube-dl

This script requires youtube-dl, which can be downloaded from GitHub.

Source

# getYouTubeVids.py
# (C) D. Thiebaut 2014
# given a list of youtube videos stored in the array vids, and a 
# filename variable that represents the name of the videos, including
# a numbering scheme (%02d means 2 decimals with leading 0, i.e. 01,
# 02, etc., the program will fetch the videos using the command
# youtube-dl (to be downloaded from some other site) and will store
# all the movie files under the given filename format.
# Assumes Python V 2.7.  Switch the print statements around for
# Python 3+

import subprocess

filename = "Qt5Tutorials_Thiebaut_%02d"

vids = [ "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAdAvMc1MCI",
            "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmzqZmr-S-Q" ]

for i,vid in enumerate(vids):
    thisFileName = filename % (i+1) + ".%(ext)s"
    #print( "youtube-dl -o \"" + thisFileName + "\" " + vid )
    print "youtube-dl -o \"" + thisFileName + "\" " + vid 
    #call( ["youtube-dl", "-o",  thisFileName, vid ] )
    subprocess.Popen( ["youtube-dl", "-o",  thisFileName, vid ], 
                      stdout = subprocess.PIPE, 
                      stderr= subprocess.PIPE ).communicate()
    #print( "done" )
    print "done"