jakebellacera

How to get the ID of any YouTube Video

This article walks you through how to get the ID of any YouTube video.

How to get a YouTube video ID from a youtube.com page URL

You may be watching the video or just happened to visit a link to a video. The video ID will be located in the URL of the video page, right after the v= URL parameter.

hrbrmstr

---
title: "Visualizing the Clinton Email Network in R"
author: "hrbrmstr"
date: "`r Sys.Date()`"
output: html_document
---
```{r include=FALSE}
knitr::opts_chunk$set(
  collapse=TRUE,
  comment="#>",

dehowell

import urllib2

def file_exists(location):
    request = urllib2.Request(location)
    request.get_method = lambda : 'HEAD'
    try:
        response = urllib2.urlopen(request)
        return True
    except urllib2.HTTPError:
        return False