[Equinox]

In GiyPy, I used a method that goes to the YouTube api itself, and gets a single video.

Code:

def youtube(query): try: xdat = str((urllib.request.urlopen("http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos?vq="+query.replace(' ','_')+"&racy=include&orderby=relevance&max-results=1")).read()) if "<openSearch:totalResults>0</openSearch:totalResults>" in (xdat): return "No results." else: trash , yclean=(xdat).split("<media:player url='http://www.youtube.com/watch?q=",1) yclean , trash=yclean.split("&amp;",1) trash2 , yclean2=(xdat).split("<media:title type='plain'>",1) yclean2 , trash2=yclean2.split("</media:title>",1) trash3 , yclean3=(xdat).split(yclean+"'/><author><name>",1) yclean3 , trash3=yclean3.split("</name>",1) return yclean2.capitalize()+"\nUploaded by "+yclean3.capitalize()+"\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v="+yclean except: return "Error"

When we open the YouTube API, the word/phrase is always in the middle, when specifying the amount of videos we want that is.

Say we wanted http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos?q=dubstep_and_shit&racy=include&orderby=relevance&max-results=1, we always replace spaces with underscores.

The API is XML-based, so when opening it we will see something like this.

Code:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:yt='http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007'><id>http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos</id><updated>2014-04-13T14:34:44.900Z</updated><category scheme='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#kind' term='http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007#video'/><title type='text'>Videos matching: dubstep_and_shit</title><logo>http://www.gstatic.com/youtube/img/logo.png</logo><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.youtube.com'/><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos'/><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#batch' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/batch'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos?q=dubstep_and_shit&amp;start-index=1&amp;max-results=1&amp;racy=include&amp;orderby=relevance'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos?q=dubstep_and_shit&amp;start-index=2&amp;max-results=1&amp;racy=include&amp;orderby=relevance'/><author><name>YouTube</name><uri>http://www.youtube.com/</uri></author><generator version='2.1' uri='http://gdata.youtube.com'>YouTube data API</generator><openSearch:totalResults>220</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>1</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/DGrLjISE7bA</id><published>2013-09-30T15:43:16.000Z</published><updated>2014-04-11T19:20:15.000Z</updated><category scheme='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#kind' term='http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007#video'/><category scheme='http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007/categories.cat' term='Games' label='Gaming'/><title type='text'>New intro/ Intro nou! Dubstep and shit</title><content type='text'>Melodia: Celldweller - Tough Guy (Tim Ismag Remix) Like la video, Share la altii si Subscribe la mine XD =====================...</content><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGrLjISE7bA&amp;feature=youtube_gdata'/><link rel='http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007#video.related' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/DGrLjISE7bA/related'/><link rel='http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007#mobile' type='text/html' href='http://m.youtube.com/details?v=DGrLjISE7bA'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/DGrLjISE7bA'/><author><name>MrRava12</name><uri>http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/MrRava12</uri></author><gd:comments><gd:feedLink rel='http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007#comments' href='http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/DGrLjISE7bA/comments' countHint='14'/></gd:comments><yt:hd/><media:group><media:category label='Gaming' scheme='http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007/categories.cat'>Games</media:category><media:content url='http://www.youtube.com/v/DGrLjISE7bA?version=3&amp;f=videos&amp;app=youtube_gdata' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' medium='video' isDefault='true' expression='full' duration='11' yt:format='5'/><media:content url='rtsp://r2---sn-p5qlsu76.c.youtube.com/CiILENy73wIaGQmw7YSEjMtqDBMYDSANFEgGUgZ2aWRlb3MM/0/0/0/video.3gp' type='video/3gpp' medium='video' expression='full' duration='11' yt:format='1'/><media:content url='rtsp://r2---sn-p5qlsu76.c.youtube.com/CiILENy73wIaGQmw7YSEjMtqDBMYESARFEgGUgZ2aWRlb3MM/0/0/0/video.3gp' type='video/3gpp' medium='video' expression='full' duration='11' yt:format='6'/><media:description type='plain'>Melodia: Celldweller - Tough Guy (Tim Ismag Remix) Like la video, Share la altii si Subscribe la mine XD =====================...</media:description><media:keywords/><media:player url='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGrLjISE7bA&amp;feature=youtube_gdata_player'/><media:thumbnail url='http://i.ytimg.com/vi/DGrLjISE7bA/0.jpg' height='360' width='480' time='00:00:05.500'/><media:thumbnail url='http://i.ytimg.com/vi/DGrLjISE7bA/1.jpg' height='90' width='120' time='00:00:02.750'/><media:thumbnail url='http://i.ytimg.com/vi/DGrLjISE7bA/2.jpg' height='90' width='120' time='00:00:05.500'/><media:thumbnail url='http://i.ytimg.com/vi/DGrLjISE7bA/3.jpg' height='90' width='120' time='00:00:08.250'/><media:title type='plain'>New intro/ Intro nou! Dubstep and shit</media:title><yt:duration seconds='11'/></media:group><gd:rating average='5.0' max='5' min='1' numRaters='12' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#overall'/><yt:statistics favoriteCount='0' viewCount='846'/></entry></feed>

We only need a few elements from this, however we can always expand.
Here's a run down of some of the basic elements that can be found in this API:
- User who uploaded the video
- Video title
- View count
- Video ID
- Video time length
- Description
- Rating
- Upload date
- Thumbnail
- Category
- MUCH more

I used a splitting method that only grabs data within certain parameters. An example of this would be if I wanted to get everything within <1> and <3>.

Code:

trash,shit = trash.split('<1>',1) trash,shit = shit.split('<3>',1)

This would return <2> after splitting. However, you could say I got lucky. This method can have a LOT of problems. Either way, it works.

[dog87645]

can you use this to download/rip videos?

I am interested in trying to get different versions of youtube videos. I wonder if youtube stores the original file too(for highest quality).

edit: here's an additional data point that you might like. If you add &t=6m22s, youtube will skip to 6 minutes and 22 seconds of the video.

[Equinox]

can you use this to download/rip videos?

I am interested in trying to get different versions of youtube videos. I wonder if youtube stores the original file too(for highest quality).

edit: here's an additional data point that you might like. If you add &t=6m22s, youtube will skip to 6 minutes and 22 seconds of the video.

You cannot use this to download videos. It works off of an API, hence it only grabs information related to the video.

Also, the information you provided has nothing to do with the API, much less the program, but the YouTube itself.

[haqqur]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't it be more efficient to use a DOM parser for this?