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author | Zhiming Wang <zmwangx@gmail.com> | 2016-01-08 11:21:54 -0800 |
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committer | Zhiming Wang <zmwangx@gmail.com> | 2016-01-08 11:21:54 -0800 |
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Markdown source files: Use ... to end YAML metadata block
Also add a newline after the metadata block.
... is easier on markdown-mode; if --- is used, the line immediately
above it will be treated as a setext header and highlighted, which isn't
so easy on the eyes.
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diff --git a/source/blog/2014-11-05-list-youtube-playlist-with-youtube-dl.md b/source/blog/2014-11-05-list-youtube-playlist-with-youtube-dl.md index cd46078c..18eda3af 100644 --- a/source/blog/2014-11-05-list-youtube-playlist-with-youtube-dl.md +++ b/source/blog/2014-11-05-list-youtube-playlist-with-youtube-dl.md @@ -2,7 +2,8 @@ title: "List YouTube playlist with youtube-dl" date: 2014-11-05T10:37:58-0800 date_display: November 5, 2014 ---- +... + Of course you are always welcome to use the [Google APIs Client Library for Python](https://developers.google.com/api-client-library/python/) to wrestle with YouTube, which is usually pretty simple. (As an added bonus, YouTube has some [nice runnable sample scripts](https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/code_samples/) to get you started.) With the client library, listing videos in a YouTube playlist is a breeze. However, if you don't feel like writing code yourself (I usually don't feel like writing code myself until I use something often enough and existing solutions are suboptimal), `youtube-dl` recently added the functionality to list videos in a playlist with the `--flat-playlist` option. @@ -21,6 +22,7 @@ However, if you don't feel like writing code yourself (I usually don't feel like [download] Downloading video #3 of 119 [download] Downloading video #4 of 119 ... + ``` which doesn't really make sense — it tells you that it collected 119 video ids, and no more. Once you have `-j` on, you get JSON data that you can parse with anything: @@ -32,6 +34,7 @@ which doesn't really make sense — it tells you that it collected 119 video ids {"url": "znW5ALwWNQw", "_type": "url", "ie_key": "Youtube", "id": "znW5ALwWNQw"} {"url": "qyE7-auTIcc", "_type": "url", "ie_key": "Youtube", "id": "qyE7-auTIcc"} ... + ``` The most straightforward way to parse this is to use a command line JSON parser, the best one being [jq](https://github.com/stedolan/jq): @@ -43,6 +46,7 @@ https://youtube.com/v/j9l5nchv1Z8 https://youtube.com/v/znW5ALwWNQw https://youtube.com/v/qyE7-auTIcc ... + ``` There you go, a list of URIs you can use. Of course you can put this in a script to save some typing: |