Retrieve page title for YouTube video ID.

youtube-title-for-videoid.py

# If the url is a youtube URL, make sure we query the api instead of the actual page to prevent triggering captcha requests
	if 'v=' in url and ('youtube.com' in url or 'youtu.be' in url):
		m = re.search('v=([\w\d_-]+)', url)
		if m:
			youtube_id = m.group(1)
			url = "http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos?v=2&q=" + youtube_id + "&max-results=1&fields=entry(title)&prettyprint=false"
			weechat.prnt("", url)

youtube_title_for_videoid.sh

#!/bin/bash
curl -A "Title Retriever" --silent "http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos?v=2&q=$1&max-results=1&fields=entry(title)&prettyprint=false"|awk -vRS="</title>" '/<title>/{gsub(/.*<title>|\n+/,"");print;exit}'