pyvideo-urlgrabber

This is a very basic script that parses the metadata on http://pyvideo.org for the source video URLs, and prints them to stdout.

Use it like this:

./pyvideo-urlgrabber.py --category "PyCon US 2014"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeQt7CxzmPo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAqklQ4wzhY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBQB_yS2K4M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kdrp1Kt1dSw
[...]

The idea is to then feed these URLs into other purpose-built tools. For example, feeding these to youtube-dl:

./pyvideo-urlgrabber.py -s "Guido van Rossum" -c "PyCon US 2015" | xargs youtube-dl --get-title
Keynote - Guido van Rossum - PyCon 2015
Type Hints  - Guido van Rossum - PyCon 2015

./pyvideo-urlgrabber.py -s "Guido van Rossum" -c "PyCon US 2015" | xargs youtube-dl --title
[youtube] G-uKNd5TSBw: Downloading webpage
[youtube] G-uKNd5TSBw: Extracting video information
[youtube] G-uKNd5TSBw: Downloading DASH manifest
[download] Destination: Keynote - Guido van Rossum - PyCon 2015-G-uKNd5TSBw.mp4
[download] 100% of 227.70MiB in 00:05
[youtube] 2wDvzy6Hgxg: Downloading webpage
[youtube] 2wDvzy6Hgxg: Extracting video information
[youtube] 2wDvzy6Hgxg: Downloading DASH manifest
[download] Destination: Type Hints  - Guido van Rossum - PyCon 2015-2wDvzy6Hgxg.mp4
[download] 100% of 323.68MiB in 00:06

Run it with --help for more details.

The first run will take a while, as it builds a cache of all the JSON metadata available on the site. There are currently over 2000 videos, resulting in a cache of around 4MB. This data is saved to a local cache file that must be manually rebuilt (using the -r option) to pick up new changes.

In addition to being able to filter to a specific category, you can also filter by a speaker name or video file type.