alexmercerind/youtube-search-python

Getting more then 100 video results with Playlist.get()

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Themis3000 commented

It appears that their isn't yet a Playlist.get().next() or equivalent implemented. Is their a way to get more then 100 video results yet? If not is this a feature that is planned to be implemented in the future?

Also, thank you for creating/maintaining this wonderful library! I appreciate all your hard work. Have a great day!

alexmercerind commented

Hi there @Themis3000 !

Yeah, you pointed it out right.

Playlist.get is really new in this library, so next attribute isn't added to it yet.

I'll see how I can do that.

Thanks for your positive comment.

Greetings 🍀

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alexmercerind commented

Hi there @Themis3000 ! 👋

Hope you're doing great 😃. Sorry, it took me a lot of time to get to this one. I had kinda busy schedule & this project in general takes a lot of study for adding/fixing features. So, here I am with what you asked for.

Now you can get more than 100 videos from a playlist. I have made everything very simple to use.

playlist = Playlist('https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRBp0Fe2GpgmsW46rJyudVFlY6IYjFBIK')

print(f'Videos Retrieved: {len(playlist.videos)}')
if playlist.hasMoreVideos:
    print('Getting more videos...')
    playlist.getNextVideos()
else:
    print('Found all the videos.')
print(f'Videos Retrieved: {len(playlist.videos)}')
if playlist.hasMoreVideos:
    print('Getting more videos...')
    playlist.getNextVideos()
else:
    print('Found all the videos.')
print(f'Videos Retrieved: {len(playlist.videos)}')
if playlist.hasMoreVideos:
    print('Getting more videos...')
    playlist.getNextVideos()
else:
    print('Found all the videos.')

Now hasMoreVideos will indicate if more videos are present, and getNextVideos will give you more videos of the playlist.

Result:

Videos Retrieved: 100
Getting more videos...
Videos Retrieved: 200
Getting more videos...
Videos Retrieved: 209
Found all the videos.

If above example seems bit spread out, you can simply use a loop as follows (looks elegant I guess) to get all the videos:

from youtubesearchpython import *

playlist = Playlist('https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRBp0Fe2GpgmsW46rJyudVFlY6IYjFBIK')

print(f'Videos Retrieved: {len(playlist.videos)}')

while playlist.hasMoreVideos:
    print('Getting more videos...')
    playlist.getNextVideos()
    print(f'Videos Retrieved: {len(playlist.videos)}')

print('Found all the videos.')

Greetings. ✨

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Themis3000 commented

Perfect! Thank you so much! I'm happy this is now implemented, I will be making use of it

Have a great day, I appreciate your work!

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