Use youtube-dl as a library

[redapple]

I got frustrated about the lack of progress information when running steve-cmd fetch,
so I wanted to use youtube-dl as a library to get metadata from playlists

Sample output for PyCon India 2015

• steve.ini
• console log
• sample JSON file

@willkg ,
what can I test other than YouTube playlists?

[codersquid]

Is there a reason not to put this with the other imports?

[redapple]

not really no. fixing.

[codersquid]

Are there docs where they list the elements they return? I don't know why some of these fields are changing.

[redapple]

I see https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py#L1452

        return {
            'id': video_id,
            'uploader': video_uploader,
            'uploader_id': video_uploader_id,
            'upload_date': upload_date,
            'title': video_title,
            'thumbnail': video_thumbnail,
            'description': video_description,
            'categories': video_categories,
            'tags': video_tags,
            'subtitles': video_subtitles,
            'automatic_captions': automatic_captions,
            'duration': video_duration,
            'age_limit': 18 if age_gate else 0,
            'annotations': video_annotations,
            'webpage_url': proto + '://www.youtube.com/watch?v=%s' % video_id,
            'view_count': view_count,
            'like_count': like_count,
            'dislike_count': dislike_count,
            'average_rating': float_or_none(video_info.get('avg_rating', [None])[0]),
            'formats': formats,
            'is_live': is_live,
            'start_time': start_time,
            'end_time': end_time,
        }

[redapple]

Looks like "fulltitle" and "title" differ when title is truncated: https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/b3613d36da14ab527166326707c0f911d192144d/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py#L1400

but I haven't found "fulltitle" when using a ydl

[codersquid]

@redapple channels are a good thing to test. I scrape those too.

[redapple]

@codersquid ,
worked for PyCon PL channel: https://gist.github.com/redapple/9a411c369110a1f071d1

pyvideo/pyvideo#141
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChSapCUgd_L5nBWIqWucnnQ