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Download Youtube video using Youtube-dl and Youtube API
#!/usr/bin/python
from apiclient.discovery import build
from apiclient.errors import HttpError
from oauth2client.tools import argparser
import subprocess
# 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 = "<Insert your API Key>"
YOUTUBE_API_SERVICE_NAME = "youtube"
YOUTUBE_API_VERSION = "v3"
def youtube_search(options):
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=options.q,
part="id,snippet",
maxResults=options.max_results
).execute()
videos = []
channels = []
playlists = []
# Add each result to the appropriate list, and then display the lists of
# matching videos, channels, and playlists.
for search_result in search_response.get("items", []):
if search_result["id"]["kind"] == "youtube#video":
videos.append("%s (%s)" % (search_result["snippet"]["title"],
search_result["id"]["videoId"]))
elif search_result["id"]["kind"] == "youtube#channel":
channels.append("%s (%s)" % (search_result["snippet"]["title"],
search_result["id"]["channelId"]))
elif search_result["id"]["kind"] == "youtube#playlist":
playlists.append("%s (%s)" % (search_result["snippet"]["title"],
search_result["id"]["playlistId"]))
for i, video in enumerate(videos):
print '{0} {1}'.format(i, video.encode('utf-8'))
choice = raw_input('\n Enter the Video number you want to Download : ')
try:
video_hash = videos[int(choice)].rsplit('(')[-1].replace(')', '')
video_url = 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v={0}'.format(video_hash)
args = ['youtube-dl', '-q', '--list-format', '{0}'.format(video_url)]
result = subprocess.call(args)
video_format = raw_input('\nEnter your format : ')
args = ['youtube-dl', '-t', '-f', '{0}'.format(video_format),
'{0}'.format(video_url)]
result = subprocess.call(args)
except:
print 'You have entered invalid video number !!!'
if __name__ == "__main__":
#search_key = raw_input('Please enter the video to be searched on youtube : ')
argparser.add_argument("--q", help='Default search term', default="Google")
argparser.add_argument("--max-results", help="Max results", default=25)
args = argparser.parse_args()
try:
youtube_search(args)
except HttpError, e:
print "An HTTP error %d occurred:\n%s" % (e.resp.status, e.content)
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