Script to automatically generate video_ID.txt file

[RhetTbull]

Hi. First, thank you very much for this project! It saved me a huge amount of time to download some videos. I created the following script to automatically generate the video_ID.txt file and so I'm posting it here in case it's helpful for others. It monitors the clipboard for a copied link then writes the video id to the video_ID.txt file. Just run the script then copy your links to the clipboard. The script will find the video ID and write it to the `video_ID.txt file. Press Ctrl+C to exit when done.

You'll need to install pyperclip with pip install pyperclip

"""Given a video link for a Wistia video, create a video_ID.txt for use with
wistia-downloader:
https://github.com/abdlalisalmi/wistia-downloader/tree/master/script

To get the video link, right click on the video and select "Copy link and thumbnail"
which will put something like this on the clipboard:

<p><a href="https://originalurl.com;wvideo=01jkcwXb9u">
<img src="https://embed-ssl.wistia.com/deliveries/88xxx1231e5e0c7a1b141a68c1.jpg?
image_play_button_size=2x&amp;image_crop_resized=960x540&amp;image_play_button=1&amp;image_play_button_color=174bd2e0"
style="width: 400px; height: 225px;" width="400" height="225"></a>
</p><p>
<a href="https://originalurl.com;wvideo=01jkcwXb9u">
URL Name</a></p>

The part we care about is wvideo=01jkcwXb9u and the ID we need is "01jkcwXb9u"

"""

import os.path
import re
import shutil
from time import sleep, time

import pyperclip

OUTPUT_FILE = "video_ID.txt"


if __name__ == "__main__":
    if os.path.exists(OUTPUT_FILE):
        # backup the file
        backup_file = f"video_ID_{int(time())}.txt"
        print(f"Backup up {OUTPUT_FILE} to {backup_file}")
        shutil.copy(OUTPUT_FILE, backup_file)

    count = 0
    first = True
    try:
        with open(OUTPUT_FILE, "w") as f:
            print("Paste link from video 'Copy link and thumbnail' here and hit Enter")
            print("Press ctrl+C when you are done")
            last_buffer = ""
            while True:
                buffer = pyperclip.paste()
                if buffer == last_buffer:
                    sleep(0.1)
                    continue
                last_buffer = buffer
                if match := re.search(r"wvideo=([\w]+)\"", buffer):
                    print(f"Found video ID: {match[1]}")
                    f.write(f"{match[1]}\n")
                    f.flush()
                    count += 1
                elif first:
                    first = False
                else:
                    print("Did not find a video ID")
    except KeyboardInterrupt:
        print(f"Found {count} video IDs and wrote them to {OUTPUT_FILE}")

[AlexanderMcColl]

I found this software impossible to use and gave up, but your python script was fantastic thank you!!!

I referenced this gist: https://gist.github.com/szepeviktor/2a8a3ce8b32e2a67ca416ffd077553c5
to create a python script that then takes your list of Video_IDs and returns a list of .mp4 urls to then pipe into whichever way is most convenient for you to download (I have a homelab that I can leave running overnight iterating through a list of urls to download):

import requests
import re
import json

# Read the list of Video_IDs
video_ID = open('video_ID.txt','r').read().split('\n')
video_urls = []

# Download the webpage
with open("video_urls.txt", "a") as f:
    for video in video_ID:
        url = f"http://fast.wistia.net/embed/iframe/{video}"
        response = requests.get(url)
        content = response.text

        # Extract the URL using regular expressions
        pattern = r'^\s*W\.iframeInit\((.+), {[^}]*}\);\s*$'
        match = re.search(pattern, content, re.MULTILINE)
        if match:
            json_str = match.group(1)
            data = json.loads(json_str)
            url = data["assets"][0]["url"]
            url = re.sub(r'\.bin$', '.mp4', url)
            # Write it to the output file specified above
            f.write(url + "\n")

GPT-3.5 wrote me the python code first time from their shell code. I just added the with and for loops so it can iterate. Unbelievable how good it is for getting little scripts going.