Badly hacked together script to print the number of videos watched by 'Username'

youtube-history.py

#!/usr/bin/env	python

# Naveen Kumar Molleti
# 21st April 2012

# Badly hacked together script to print the number of videos watched by 'Username'
# Dunno why but returns 1000000 for an a/c with a large history, must've missed something in the API doc

import httplib
import re

appdevkey="Your App Dev Key here"

url="https://www.google.com/accounts/ClientLogin"
username="Set Username here"
password="Set Password here"			## NOTE: Password in plaintext
service="youtube"

headers={'Context-Type':"application/x-www-form-urlencoded"}

conn=httplib.HTTPConnection("www.google.com")

conn.request('GET', url+ '?Email='+username+'&Passwd='+password+'&service=youtube', '', headers)
resplist=conn.getresponse().read().strip().split('\n')
respmap={}
for ele in resplist:
	elesplit=ele.split('=')
	respmap[elesplit[0]]=elesplit[1]

#print respmap

temp_headers={}
temp_headers['Authorization'], temp_headers['X-GData-Key'] = "GoogleLogin auth=" + respmap['Auth'], "key=" + appdevkey

conn.request('GET', 'https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/default/watch_history?v=2','', temp_headers)
response=conn.getresponse()
responseXML=response.read()

#print responseXML

pattern=re.compile("<openSearch:totalResults>.*</openSearch:totalResults>")
result = pattern.findall(responseXML)

pattern=re.compile("\d+")
print pattern.findall(result[0])[0]

conn.close()