I’m starting a project to remodel the video section on my blog to be more like the photos section. I’d like to have albums of videos just as I have albums of photos. The logical way to group videos with YouTube is by using playlists. The…

Well, the success of my addition to TubePress was short lived. Youtube, and some users, had a problem with the undocumented api call I found. The call returned public and private playlists for any user. Needless to say that was a problem YouTube had…

many thanks and regards
reverse

I get following error!
>C:\Python25\pythonw -u “youtubeApi.py”
File “youtubeApi.py”, line 15
SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character ‘\x92′ in file youtubeApi.py on line 15, but no encoding declared; see http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html for details

I am quite a newbie to python….sorry for if it sounds dumb.

What is it The YouTube API lets you search for videos and display them on your site. For example, I use the API to pull videos tagged dance and display them on Rate My Dance Moves. The YouTube API is……

You can find it at http://www.napolitopia.com/youtube_videos.php

Let me know what you think, or if you have any suggestions.

-Sam

Anyway, the program plays continues feeds from
youtube via os.system calls to VLC.

Just put the script in your VLC directory and run it.

Love the site, please keep up the free flow of info.

If it gets posted anywhere just put gindc.

Thanks again,

gindc

#!/usr/bin/python
#Load continues video from youtube.com.
#Requires videolan (VLC) media player (see http://www.videolan.org/)
#Just put this python script in your vlc.exe directory.
import urllib,sys
import os
from time import sleep
from string import find,replace
from htmllib import HTMLParser
from formatter import AbstractFormatter,DumbWriter
from cStringIO import StringIO
from random import shuffle

number_of_videos=30
startpage=’http://www.youtube.com/categories_portal?c=23&e=1′

def readurl(url):
try:
f=urllib.urlopen(url)
txt=f.read()
f.close()
except:
txt=”
return txt

def FindLinks(html):

tmp = StringIO()
f = AbstractFormatter(DumbWriter(tmp))
parser=HTMLParser(f)
parser.feed(html)
return parser.anchorlist

txt=readurl(startpage)
linklist=FindLinks(txt)
shuffle(linklist)
started=False
cnter=999
linklist2=[]
print ‘loading link pages, please wait…’
for startpage in linklist:
if find(startpage,’/watch’)==-1 and number_of_videos>len(linklist2):
txt=readurl(‘http://www.youtube.com’+startpage)
ll=FindLinks(txt)
for l in ll:
if find(l,’/watch’)>-1:
if not l in linklist2:
linklist2.append(l)
else:
if not startpage in linklist2:
linklist2.append(startpage)
shuffle(linklist2)
for startpage in linklist2:
txt=readurl(‘http://www.youtube.com’+startpage)
spot=find(txt,’new SWFObject’)
if spot>-1:
cnter+=1
txt=txt[spot+37:]
spot2=find(txt,’”‘)
txt=txt[:spot2]
video_id = txt[:]
fname=’test’+str(cnter)+’.flv’
print ‘retrieving video::’+str(cnter)

urllib.urlretrieve(“http://www.youtube.com/get_video?video_id=”+video_id,fna
me)
if started:
o.close()
o=os.popen(“vlc.exe “+fname+” -f vlc:quit”)
started=True