i hacked my way around this problem with this crazy commandline:
URL=www.youtube.com/user/WHATEVER/videos # or playlist or whatever
youtube-dl --dump-json --flat-playlist $URL | jq -r '.id' | sed 's_^_https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_' > urls.txt
git -c annex.security.allowed-http-addresses=all annex addurl --batch < urls.txt
It's idiotic that youtube removed support for standard stuff, but that's the name of the game these days. Maybe git-annex could delegate this to youtube-dl? --anarcat
There is actually a way to construct a rss feed url that will work,
but nowhere in youtube can you find the url.
downloading podcasts discusses how the url looks like; finding the
channel_id value for a given youtube page tends to involve grepping the
html or some third-party tool.
If youtube-dl had a way to extract the channel_id, I suppose I might make
git-annex use it. Although leaving the user to jump through the absurd
hoops google has set up to find an rss feed does highlight just how
user-hostile and standard-hostile Google is being here; it sends some
important signals to the user about the entity they're interacting with,
their business model, and how likely the rss feed is to break in the
future.
There's no API involved; git-annex importfeed consumes RSS feeds. Google no longer supports such reasonable technology.
i hacked my way around this problem with this crazy commandline:
It's idiotic that youtube removed support for standard stuff, but that's the name of the game these days. Maybe git-annex could delegate this to youtube-dl? --anarcat
There is actually a way to construct a rss feed url that will work, but nowhere in youtube can you find the url. downloading podcasts discusses how the url looks like; finding the
channel_idvalue for a given youtube page tends to involve grepping the html or some third-party tool.If youtube-dl had a way to extract the
channel_id, I suppose I might make git-annex use it. Although leaving the user to jump through the absurd hoops google has set up to find an rss feed does highlight just how user-hostile and standard-hostile Google is being here; it sends some important signals to the user about the entity they're interacting with, their business model, and how likely the rss feed is to break in the future.