Questions tagged [youtube]

YouTube is a video-sharing website on which users can upload, share and view videos. Use this tag for questions which may arise when developing for YouTube. This tag is NOT for support questions about using the YouTube website or the official YouTube app.

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YouTube to LBRY Video Uploader - V0.1.0

I have developed a Python script that allows users to upload videos from YouTube to LBRY. The script also performs video post-processing and database operations. I would like to request a code review ...
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YouTube downloader application with GUI in Python

I would appreciate a review of my Python script that interacts with the YouTube API and downloads videos or audio from YouTube URLs or playlists. The script uses the pytube library for downloading and ...
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A GUI Multimedia Player with acces to the Youtube Database (3)

Third update, now in OOP. Link to previous post: A GUI Youtube Player (2) Link: https://github.com/floris-vos/gui-youtube-player This is a multimedia player that gets its material from the database of ...
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A GUI Youtube Player (2)

Link to newer version: A GUI Multimedia Player with acces to the Youtube Database (3) I am working on a GUI Youtube Player. When I had a first working version, I put it here on CodeReview, getting ...
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A GUI Youtube Audio Player

Follow Up: A GUI Youtube Player (2) I made a GUI that can make a YouTube query and play the audio. It includes some basic functionalities like volume control, a time-scale, putting songs in waiting ...
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A simple Python script that crawls information about Youtube playlists and your watch history

You will need to follow this guide. This is a Youtube crawler that crawls information about Youtube playlists, it uses Youtube Data API v3 and it crawls the title, url, description, count and videos ...
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F# thumbnail Scraper

Thumbnail Scraper I'm a C# programmer learning F#. For my first program I created a console youtube thumbnail scraper. It parses command line arguments with argu and then downloads the thumbnails, ...
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youtube download application using youtube_dl and tkinter

I program in Python as a hobby and decided to try to use tkinter to make an application. I decided to make a YouTube video/audio downloader using youtube_dl. It's really slow, and the tkinter window ...
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YouTube Downloader with PyTube

I've made a little app, YouTube Downloader, which does what the name says. I have three files as I am trying to get good enough in working with multiple files in one app. So even if it is really small ...
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New Spreadsheet Row to YouTube Playlist

I have the following code below that takes a new row added to my Google Spreadsheet (has a header row) and extracts the video ID. If the ID does not exist in the playlist, it adds the video to the ...
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Python YouTube Video Downloader

I'm looking for some feedback on my first 'real' Python program. Started with Python a few days ago and wanted to get right into it and make something hands on. Currently the program lets you download ...
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YouTube Data API v3: Modified version of YouTube trending that only includes videos from subscribed to channels

I have made a program that sort of mimics YouTube trending, but only with videos from channels that I am subscribed to. It looks at each Subscription, converts the ...
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Tampermonkey script to check and replace youtube's subscriptions to show all videos

Just wanted a general review of the code to make sure I'm doing it properly/efficently. New to JS and don't use RegEx too often. ...
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Script that saving most relevant Youtube video for each database object

Due to the tightened Youtube API daily quota (that allows to use only ~ 98 search requests per project daily) I've implemented a multi-project system. For this to work you need to create a project/...
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TamperMonkey Script to replace the YouTube favicon with the channel logo

I felt that having a plain red favicon for every youtube tab is a little boring. So, I wrote a TamperMonkey Script with the new ES6 promises that replaces the favicon with the channel's logo. Link to ...
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Listing YouTube videos using API with RxJava

I am new to RxJava and have the following code which I use to search YouTube videos via the API and ultimately display them in a list. ...
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Web scraping the titles and descriptions of trending YouTube videos

This scrapes the titles and descriptions of trending YouTube videos and writes them to a CSV file. What improvements can I make? ...
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Collecting YouTube links from a page

I wrote code for my needs (i.e. collecting YouTube links from a page) and it is simple, but now I just want to know what can I do just to make it a better and properly written one. For example, I ...
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Adding Youtube iframe API at runtime - React Component

So we created a component where we have a couple of Yotube iframes and we import the Youtube iframe API like this way. It's working and we achieve what we expected. I would appreciate any comments ...
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YouTube page scraping using Jsoup

I am trying to scrape the YouTube video streaming page to get the metadata of the video. I am considering this YouTube page as an example. You can find the HTML contents of that page over here (I have ...
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Python script to scrape titles of public Youtube playlist

Just started in Python; wrote a script to get the names of all the titles in a public Youtube playlist given as input, but it got messier than it might have to be. I looked around online and found ...
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Python YouTube downloader with tkinter

Recently I was asked to make an application that allowed a user to download youtube videos - minus all the viruses. So far I have produced the following code: ...
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Overlay a YouTube video iFrame Over an Image

This is my code and the main thing I wanted to accomplish when creating this was to: overlay an iFrame over an image and also to see if I could embed a YouTube video iFrame with the video ID entered ...
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YouTube playlist steganography: hide secret messages inside YouTube playlists

I have created this repo on GitHub and I have shown how this software works through a video. If you have time, please visit the repo and read the files. I'll post some relevant snippets below, but if ...
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Random YouTube video player

I just finished making this quick and dirty random YouTube video player for fun and learning. Before I get started, by "random" I mean selecting a video from a list of videos using PHP RNG, not truly ...
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Converting YouTube channels to podcasts

I created a Django app that converts YouTube channels to podcasts. It uses the actual YouTube paths for the URLs. The idea is that the user can just find the YouTube address of the desired channel (...
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Scraping all closed captions (subtitles) of a YouTube's creator's video library

A script that scrapes all YouTube's videos closed captions(subtitles) of a single creator's video library. It scrapes either auto-generated or manually written subtitles. The script accepts a link to ...
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Youtube Video Downloader

This code takes a YouTube video and download it. It supports only non-copyrighted videos due to YouTube's new algorithms. Any thoughts about the structure and the logic? I would like to learn from ...
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Bookmarklet to go to YouTube channel RSS feed

I've written a simple bookmarklet to go to the YouTube channel RSS feed URL from at least any video or channel page: ...
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Download a list of songs from Youtube using Selenium

Given a text file containing a list of links, I wrote some code to download them, one by one, from YouTube, using either YoutubeMP3 or Convert2mp3 logging any songs that failed to download. The code ...
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Download playlist clips from YouTube

As I'm located in China, using YouTube is a headache for me. I know about youtube-dl, but I just started learning and decided to build something myself. With a bunch of things TBD, it basically does ...
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Script to retrieve new YouTube videos

I wrote a script which retrieves YouTube videos from your favourite channels - channels you specify in a .txt file. Let me know what you think about it. Channel and Video classes ...
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YouTube component of a multi-component web-app

Following is basic JS code to create a YouTube search bar, search of query and load the results in a dropdown menu. I am new to JS programming and I am seeking advice for how to write better code. ...
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Downloading and transcoding music from YouTube

This is a music downloader and transcoder based on Youtube-Dl and VLC. It is written in Python 3. The PAFY Python module is required in addition to VLC. Currently, the cancel button is not functional ...
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Youtube playlist saver with Google API

I have a problem with Youtube videos being deleted from my big playlist and not knowing which videos got removed. So, I decided to write a Python script to save certain information(title etc.) about ...
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Express middleware to validate URL and tags

I am building an API where the client can send a url and some comma-delimited tags: ...
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The YouTube crawler

I have coded a program to scrape YouTube data (for educational purposes). When the link of the channel is entered it scrapes the channel name, description of the channel, the videos posted by the ...
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Crawling through a YouTube channel via the YouTube API

This code uses the YouTube API for crawling through a YouTube channel, parsing responses and syncing the channel videos with a local directory. Can this be optimised or improved? ...
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Interactive command line YouTube downloader with option to burn subtitles into video

EDIT: This code is now public on GitHub with more focused purpose in case anyone is interested. Thanks for the help! This is only used on Mac machines. I know that there is a Python implementation ...
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JavaScript: Simulating the process of removing multiple videos at once from a YouTube playlist

I've written the code below with what little knowledge I have of JavaScript at the moment. The code simulates the process of removing multiple videos at once from a playlist like the one you see on ...
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YouTube Search Result Scraper

This is a program I wrote in Python using the BeautifulSoup library. The program scrapes YouTube search results for a given query and extracts data from the channels returned in the search results. ...
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YouTube video intro, and autoscroll when video ends

This code creates an intro video using the Youtube API, screen text written by JavaScript with a typewriter kind of effect. How can I rewrite this as succinct object-oriented code? Also, I'm not sure ...
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Testing async YouTube API calls using Jasmine 2.0

I'm upgrading my project from YouTube's V2 API to their V3 API. I'm also taking the time to upgrade to Jasmine 2.0 since I already need to look at my test cases. Here's a couple of test cases and the ...
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Retrieve and load playlists from YouTube

I have this code I am using in a private project. The following is a snippet of code I use to retrieve and load playlists from YouTube: ...
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Loading YouTube videos inside a bootstrap modal

The following code loads a YouTube video inside an iframe, where the tricky part is to sync the onYouTubeIframeAPIReady and ...
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Downloading content from YouTube

This downloads content from YouTube either as whole playlists or single videos. I find it very useful but would like to know if it's something close to a program that others could maintain. I also ...
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Functional inheritance using the YouTube API

I'm looking for some feedback on my implementation of MVC and functional inheritance (as described by Douglas Crockford in his book The Good Parts) in an app that uses the YouTube API. This is my ...
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