Download multiple youtube videos at once

parse_youtube_urls.py

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
input_file = file('input.txt')
soup = BeautifulSoup(input_file.read())
for a in soup.findAll('a'):
    if 'watch?v=' in a['href']:
        print 'http://www.youtube.com'+a['href']

youtube_multi_downloader.sh

#!/bin/bash

cwd="$(pwd)"

#Uncomment following two lines if behind proxy
#http_proxy="http://10.3.100.212:8080"
#https_proxy="http://10.3.100.212:8080"

gedit input.txt

links="/tmp/$(date).txt"
python /home/psjinx/parse_youtube_urls.py > "$links"
rm input.txt

while read line
do
    name=$(echo $(youtube-dl -e "$line").mp4);
    dummy_url=$(youtube-dl -g  "$line");
    path="$cwd/$name"
    if [ ! -f "$path" ];
    then
        echo $path
        wget -c --no-verbose $dummy_url -O "$path"&
        #aria2c -c -m0 -s10 -o "$path" $dummy_url &
    fi
done < "$links"

rm "$links"