Youtube Channel listing

[shakeyourbunny]

Is there a possibility to retrieve the list of Youtube Video IDs of a channel or user, eg youtube-dl --get-listing https://www.youtube.com/user/zeboydgames/videos?

I did not find such an option :(

This also could be expanded for other extractors, I think.

[phihag]

You're looking for --get-id, which already works for all extractors:

$ youtube-dl --get-id https://www.youtube.com/user/zeboydgames/videos
wvmnEXU7lkw
yL2H2blPCbI
G-OGUgxdAYM
32pvg8I2rgI
yDAj48iq4w8

[shakeyourbunny]

$ youtube-dl --get-id https://www.youtube.com/user/noobclubru/videos
ylzNiZM_8Yg
4hGOJoXZXWg
I6PPr3noUoI
QLWW-Hm0yEE
-TQq037GI9w
.... snip ....
E0fhfIWqFNw
Q0aKeq-qkdI (Blizzcon 2011 Mists of Pandaria Intro Panel [2/6])
e7SQ6dXCJ20 (Blizzcon 2011 Mists of Pandaria Intro Panel [1/6])
ERROR: YouTube said: This video contains content from Abril Radiodifusão S/A, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds.

If you look at the channel listing https://www.youtube.com/user/noobclubru/videos?sort=dd&live_view=500&flow=list&view=0, after e7SQ6dXCJ20 there are other videos ID not retrieved.

Another example Channel is https://www.youtube.com/user/BethesdaSoftworks
$ youtube-dl --get-id https://www.youtube.com/user/BethesdaSoftworks
MMKhoHl9BnE
R4orNvYISjs
MQ5AW_vi1xU
Rp6hY003tKs
Z2QgiQh9Fco
MG4QuTe8aUw
ERROR: YouTube said: The uploader has not made this video available in your country.

This channel contains way more than six videos.. I'd suggest to skip over these blocked videos silently or output a warning or similar, but not stop on the ground while retrieving the IDs.

Oh, I live in Austria, if it helps.

[phihag]

By default, youtube-dl aborts if it encounters any error, to allow automated (or manual unsupervised) execution. If you want to suggest to skip over theses blocked videos and output a warning, pass in -i (short for --ignore-errors) as well.