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 a username or a channel id. They can be found in the URL of a YouTube channel's page.

The program will produce a line for each video that it can find. A line only contains a URL to the video.

The exit code will be 0 if the program does not encounter any problems. Any other value indicates a problem and you will most likely find an error message in the standard error stream.

The only option available at the moment is the help option (-h, --help) which makes the program do nothing but print usage instructions.

The -- sequence is useful for preventing channel ids and usernames to be interpreted as options if they begin with dashes.

Examples

The following examples work on bash. Long output is redacted with [...].

You can get a list by either passing a channel id:

# 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
[...]

Or a username:

# 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
[...]

With redirection you're able to save the list to a file:

# Saves list to a file.
$ yt-chanvids Vsauce > to-watch.txt

# Appends more links to the existing file.
$ yt-chanvids Vsauce2 >> to-watch.txt

Pipe the list to another command:

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

And even perform complex operations:

# Shortens urls.
$ 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
[...]

Contributing

The easiest way to contribute is by starring this project on GitHub!

https://github.com/daniel-araujo/yt-chanvids

If you've found a bug, would like to suggest a feature or need help, feel free to create an issue on GitHub:

https://github.com/daniel-araujo/yt-chanvids/issues

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.