Request to download all playlists of a channel/user account

[orschiro]

Hi together,

As a follow up on this [1] discussion I want to propose a new feature which allows the user to download all playlists of a provided channel/user account.

Unfortunately I cannot provide you with a pull request, but I am happy to think with you about the design of the implementation. :)

Looking forward to any comments. 👍

[1] #3659

[Albretch]

I have been needing the same feature

It is not python/youtube-dl code, but, in case it may help other people, I have been using this piece of monkey bash scripting and it suits me just fine

_PLLS="http://www.youtube.com/user/ThirstForScience/playlists"

_URL_AR=($(echo "${_PLLS}" | tr "/" " "))
_URL_AR_L=${#_URL_AR[@]}
echo "$_URL_AR_L: |$_URL_AR_L|"

let "_IX=$_URL_AR_L-2"
_OFL="${_URL_AR[$IX]}$(date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S)_playlists.txt"
echo "$_OFL: |$_OFL|"

date; time wget --server-response --no-verbose --continue --no-clobber "${_PLLS}" --output-document="${_OFL}"

cat "${_OFL}" | grep "<h3 class="yt-lockup-title">" | awk -F'list=|</a></h3>' '{print $2 $4}'


I like to look anyway what I get because they may change the pages

lbrtchx

[dstftw]

This feature will be supported in the next version.

[orschiro]

Dear @dstftw,

This is fantastic news. Thank you very much for sharing this. :)

~ Robert