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Background

Recently the Late Show programmatically generated Happy Birthday videos for over 1000 different names, and uploaded them all to YouTube (for example, "Happy Birthday jeff").

I wanted a nice easy-to-search list of all the videos, so I cobbled together a little javascript in my browser window to do the trick.

Extraction

Go to the list view of LateShowBirthday's videos

Open dev console and run this to get the whole list:

var to = setInterval(function(){
	document.body.scrollTop += 10000;
	document.querySelector('.load-more-button').click();
}, 100)
//later, when it's done
clearInterval(to);

When the list finishes loading and you've cleared the timeout, grab the list of video URLs and titles:

var elts = Array.prototype.slice.call(document.querySelectorAll('#content .feed-item-container a.spf-link'));
var data = elts.map((a) => { return { href: a.href, title: a.title }; });
var markdown = data.map((vid) => `* [${vid.title}](${vid.href})`).join('\n');
console.log(markdown);

Now bodge that into some Markdown!

The List

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