yt-chanvids

Generates a list of links to all public videos of a YouTube channel.

$ yt-chanvids PewDiePie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zYI8FjSF_k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4dAPKYPhDQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZ0rGTsdfwk
[...]

Installation

This program is published on Crates.io so you can easily get it by running cargo install, like so:

cargo install yt-chanvids

All binaries installed with cargo install are stored in the installation root’s bin folder. If you installed Rust using rustup.rs and don’t have any custom configurations, this directory will be $HOME/.cargo/bin. Ensure that directory is in your $PATH to be able to run programs you’ve installed with cargo install.

Usage

yt-chanvids [OPTIONS] [--] CHANNEL-ID|USERNAME

You can pass either the username or the channel id of a YouTube channel (which can be spotted in the address of their page) and the program will print a line separated list of links to the standard output stream.

When the program faces an unexpected situation, it will write any diagnostic message to the standard error stream. It may terminate execution and when it does it will always return an error exit code.

At the moment there is only the help option (-h, --help) available which makes the program do nothing but print usage instructions. The -- sequence is useful to prevent any arguments after it to be interpreted as options.

Examples

The following examples assume bash as the shell. Long output is redacted with [...].

Getting the links is as simple as passing a channel id or username to the program.

# Passing a channel id.
$ yt-chanvids UCR4s1DE9J4DHzZYXMltSMAg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAmGdn9t5Rs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_w6-iHbtn-Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1x2Nox-f1A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFm3brOdxcw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d63CSqjM44k
[...]

# Passing a username.
$ yt-chanvids HowToBasic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAmGdn9t5Rs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_w6-iHbtn-Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1x2Nox-f1A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFm3brOdxcw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d63CSqjM44k
[...]

If your shell supports redirection of output, you can probably do things like inserting content to files or sending it to the input stream of an other command. Having the links separated by new lines makes it easy for other commands to manipulate them.

# Creates a file with the list of links.
$ yt-chanvids Vsauce > to-watch.txt
# Inserts more links to the end of the file.
$ yt-chanvids Vsauce2 >> to-watch.txt

# Counts the number of public videos of a channel.
$ yt-chanvids PewDiePie | wc -l
2929

# Shortens the links.
$ yt-chanvids PewDiePie | sed "s/^https:\/\/www\.youtube\.com\/watch?v=/https:\/\/youtu.be\//"
https://youtu.be/0zYI8FjSF_k
https://youtu.be/X4dAPKYPhDQ
https://youtu.be/LZ0rGTsdfwk
[...]

License

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.