youtube-video-list

A small app that, given a YouTube channel URL, will retrieve the video title, upload data, video duration and video link for all videos on that channel, sorted by upload date.

Installation

• Install Leiningen, if you haven't already done so
• Get a API Key
• git clone [email protected]:quanticle/youtube-video-list
• Place the API key in resources\client-key
• Build the jar with lein uberjar

Usage

To run:

$ java -jar youtube-video-list-0.1.0-standalone.jar [-o OUTPUT_TYPE] <youtube_channel_url>

Options

• -o OUTPUT_TYPE
  • Can be one of screen or tsv
  • If screen, outputs video information in single-column format, suitable for a pager, such as less
  • If tsv, outputs video information in a tab-delimited format, suitable for redirection into a file
  • If omitted, outputs in screen format

Examples

$ java -jar youtube-video-list-0.1.0-standalone.jar "https://www.youtube.com/c/SpaceX"

Bugs

I need to handle YouTube URLs of the form https://www.youtube.com/@<channel>.

License

Copyright (C) 2023  Rohit Patnaik
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>