Extract Youtube links from the text file.md

Extract Youtube links from the text file

A small python script

• To extract all the youtube links from the text file you.list.
• Open the browser (in background) with all the videos - urllib2.urlopen(listOfVideos).
• Gets the new playlist link - response.geturl().
• Opens the web browser again to allow the user to edit the playlist properties webbrowser.open(playListURL).

Tested on Google Chrome

import os, io
import webbrowser
import urllib2

inputFileName = 'you.list'

def ReadMultipleDataFrom(thisTextFile, thisPattern):
    inputData = []
    file = open(thisTextFile, "r")
    for iLine in file:
        if iLine.startswith(thisPattern):
            iLine = iLine.rstrip()
            # print iLine
        if ('v=') in iLine: # https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBcDeFGH
            iLink = iLine.split('v=')[1]
            inputData.append(iLink) 
        if ('be/') in iLine: # https://youtu.be/aBcDeFGH
            iLink =  iLine.split('be/')[1]
            inputData.append(iLink)
    return inputData

videoLinks =  ReadMultipleDataFrom(inputFileName, "https")              
# print videoLinks

listOfVideos = "http://www.youtube.com/watch_videos?video_ids=" + ','.join(videoLinks)
# print listOfVideos

response = urllib2.urlopen(listOfVideos)
playListLink = response.geturl()
# print playListLink

playListLink = playListLink.split('list=')[1]
# print playListLink

playListURL = "https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list="+playListLink+"&disable_polymer=true"
webbrowser.open(playListURL)