README.md

YouTube-DL-Watch-Later-Playlist

Python script to download YouTube videos from your Watch Later Playlist

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Table of Contents

• About The Project
  • Built With
  • Features
• Getting Started
  • Prerequisites
  • Installation
• Usage
  • Customize
• Known Issues
• Contributing
• License
• Acknowledgements

About The Project

youtube-dl-watch-later-playlist.py is a python script to automatically download all the first 100 YouTube videos from your current Watch Later Playlist. The script will start Chromedriver and login to your Google Account.

Logging in to your Google Account is currently done by signing up at stackoverflow.com via Google, since logging in to Google directly at YouTube won't work due to Google not trusting automated Webbrowsers like Chromedriver. The workaround works, since stackoverflow.com is one of the trusted apps by Google.

The script also works when your Google Account has Two-Factor Authentication activated and will wait for 5 minutes before throwing a TimeoutException.

After successfully logging in to Google and being redirected to stackoverflow.com, Chromedriver will move to https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=WL and crawl the links for all the videos in the playlist and the script will start downloading them with youtube-dl.

Built With

• Python 3.7.6
• Selenium

Features

• Colored Terminal output with termcolor

Getting Started

To get a local copy up and running follow these simple steps.

Prerequisites

• Python 3

# Install via brew on macOS
brew install python

For Linux and Windows refer to this.

• Chromedriver

brew cask install chromedriver

For Linux and Windows refer to this.

• youtube-dl

brew install youtube-dl

For Linux and Windows refer to this.

Installation

1: Fork the repository (using the Fork button at the top)

2: Clone the repository

# Replace {YOUR_USERNAME} with your actual username
git clone https://github.com/{YOUR_USERNAME}/youtube-dl-watch-later-playlist.git

3: Change directory to youtube-dl-watch-later-playlist

cd youtube-dl-watch-later-playlist

4: Install python requirements

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Usage

• Start the download script

python3 youtube-dl-watch-later-playlist.py

• The script will prompt you for your google username and your google password

• After your input, the script will start an automated Chrome browser with Selenium and sign up to stackoverflow.com with your Google credentials.
• If you entered wrong credentials you will be prompted for them again in your Terminal.

Customize

• You can change the download folder for the videos in line 11:

download_folder = '~/Downloads/'

Known Issues

• Open Issue: Will only download the first 100 entries of your Watch Later Playlist

Contributing

Contributions are what make the open source community such an amazing place to learn, inspire, and create. Any contributions you make are greatly appreciated.

1. Fork the Project
2. Create your Feature Branch (git checkout -b feature/AmazingFeature)
3. Commit your Changes (git commit -m 'Add some AmazingFeature')
4. Push to the Branch (git push origin feature/AmazingFeature)
5. Open a Pull Request

License

Distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for more information.

Acknowledgements

• Workaround for Google Login issue - 'This browser or app may not be secure'
• youtube-dl