class YoutubeChannelIE(InfoExtractor):
IE_DESC = 'YouTube.com channels'
_VALID_URL = r'https?://(?:youtu\.be|(?:\w+\.)?youtube(?:-nocookie)?\.com)/channel/(?P<id>[0-9A-Za-z_-]+)'
- _MORE_PAGES_INDICATOR = 'yt-uix-load-more'
- _MORE_PAGES_URL = 'https://www.youtube.com/c4_browse_ajax?action_load_more_videos=1&flow=list&paging=%s&view=0&sort=da&channel_id=%s'
IE_NAME = 'youtube:channel'
_TESTS = [{
'note': 'paginated channel',
return self.playlist_result(entries, channel_id)
def _entries():
+ more_widget_html = content_html = channel_page
for pagenum in itertools.count(1):
- url = self._MORE_PAGES_URL % (pagenum, channel_id)
- page = self._download_json(
- url, channel_id, note='Downloading page #%s' % pagenum,
- transform_source=uppercase_escape)
- ids_in_page = self.extract_videos_from_page(page['content_html'])
+ ids_in_page = self.extract_videos_from_page(content_html)
for video_id in ids_in_page:
yield self.url_result(
video_id, 'Youtube', video_id=video_id)
- if self._MORE_PAGES_INDICATOR not in page['load_more_widget_html']:
+ mobj = re.search(
+ r'data-uix-load-more-href="/?(?P<more>[^"]+)"',
+ more_widget_html)
+ if not mobj:
break
+ more = self._download_json(
+ 'https://youtube.com/%s' % mobj.group('more'), channel_id,
+ 'Downloading page #%s' % (pagenum + 1),
+ transform_source=uppercase_escape)
+ content_html = more['content_html']
+ more_widget_html = more['load_more_widget_html']
+
return self.playlist_result(_entries(), channel_id)