Downloading YouTube videos from titles in a filename.

download_videos.sh

python geturls.py --f test.txt | cut -d'|' -f2 | youtube-dl -a -

geturls.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

from apiclient.discovery import build
from apiclient.errors import HttpError
from oauth2client.tools import argparser


# Set DEVELOPER_KEY to the API key value from the APIs & auth > Registered apps
# tab of
#   https://cloud.google.com/console
# Please ensure that you have enabled the YouTube Data API for your project.
DEVELOPER_KEY = "YOUR KEY HERE"
YOUTUBE_API_SERVICE_NAME = "youtube"
YOUTUBE_API_VERSION = "v3"

def youtube_search(search_term):
    youtube = build(YOUTUBE_API_SERVICE_NAME, YOUTUBE_API_VERSION,
                    developerKey=DEVELOPER_KEY)

    # Call the search.list method to retrieve results matching the specified
    # query term.
    search_response = youtube.search().list(
        q=search_term,
        part="id,snippet",
        maxResults=1
    ).execute()

    videos = []

    # save the video results
    for search_result in search_response.get("items", []):
        if search_result["id"]["kind"] == "youtube#video":
            videos.append((search_result["snippet"]["title"],
                          search_result["id"]["videoId"]))

    return videos

if __name__ == "__main__":
    argparser.add_argument("--f", help="File containing video titles")
    args = argparser.parse_args()

    with open(args.f, 'r') as inf:
        for line in inf:
            search_term = line.strip()

            try:
                videos = youtube_search(search_term)
            except HttpError, e:
                print "An HTTP error %d occurred:\n%s" % (e.resp.status, e.content)

            for snippet, vid in videos:
                print "%s|http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=%s" % (snippet.replace('|', ''), vid)

1. Works only with Python 2.7
2. You need to install Google Python API, OAuth Client, and youtube-dl using pip.
3. You need to obtain a YouTube API developer key (see here) and put it in the python script.

No Python 3? You disappoint me Nitin. 😦

youtube-dl only works with Python 2.7 at this point so I can't do anything.