Opens all YouTube links in a 4chan thread in a browser window.

chanTube.py

#!/usr/bin/env python2

# this script grabs all youtube links in a 4chan thread and opens them in your browser.
# the regex is probably pretty shitty but it seems to work
# i dunno if it handles more than one youtube link in a post because i'm lazy

# usage:
#     python chanTube.py [threadUrl]
# example:
#     python chanTube.py http://boards.4chan.org/v/res/168482467

import sys
import json
import urllib2
import re
import webbrowser

rawUrl = sys.argv[1]
parts = rawUrl.split('/')
splitLoc = parts.index('res')
board = parts[splitLoc - 1]
threadNum = parts[splitLoc + 1]
url = 'http://api.4chan.org/' + board + '/res/' + str(threadNum) + '.json'

ytRegEx = '(http(s)?://)?(www\.)?youtube\.com/watch\?v=[A-Za-z0-9_-]{11}'
ytCheck = re.compile(ytRegEx, re.IGNORECASE)

print 'Fetching data from ' + url + '.'

jsonHandle = urllib2.urlopen(url)

threadData = json.load(jsonHandle)

posts = threadData['posts']

links = 0

for post in posts:
  if 'com' in post:
		comment = post['com']
		result = ytCheck.search(comment)
		if result != None:
			links += 1
			ytLink = result.group()
			webbrowser.open(ytLink)

print 'Done. ' + str(links) + ' links opened.'