Get all YouTube videos of a channel.

youtube_list_videos.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
#
# Copyright (c) 2013 by Xu Cheng (xucheng@me.com)
#


import urllib2
import json


def set_proxy(proxy=None):
    if proxy is None:
        proxy = {}
    proxy_handler = urllib2.ProxyHandler(proxy)
    opener = urllib2.build_opener(proxy_handler)
    urllib2.install_opener(opener)


def list_videos(channel):
    url = 'http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/%s/uploads?start-index=%%d&max-results=50&alt=json' % channel
    videos = []
    index = 1
    while True:
        url_ = url % index
        try:
            resp_ = urllib2.urlopen(url_)
            resp_data = json.load(resp_)
            resp_.close()
        except Exception as e:
            print '!!ERROR', e
            break
        entries = resp_data['feed']['entry']
        for video in entries:
            videos.append(video)
        if len(entries) < 50:
            break
        index += 50
    return videos


# ---- #
# Test #
# ---- #
if __name__ == '__main__':
    set_proxy({'http': '127.0.0.1:8087'})
    videos = list_videos('CinemaSins')
    for video in videos:
        print '-' * 50
        print video['title']['$t'] # title
        print video['link'][0]['href'] # url
    print '-' * 50