return super(YoutubeUserIE, cls).suitable(url)
-class YoutubeSearchIE(SearchInfoExtractor):
+class YoutubeSearchIE(SearchInfoExtractor, YoutubePlaylistIE):
IE_DESC = 'YouTube.com searches'
- _API_URL = 'https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos?q=%s&start-index=%i&max-results=50&v=2&alt=jsonc'
- _MAX_RESULTS = 1000
+ # there doesn't appear to be a real limit, for example if you search for
+ # 'python' you get more than 8.000.000 results
+ _MAX_RESULTS = float('inf')
IE_NAME = 'youtube:search'
_SEARCH_KEY = 'ytsearch'
+ _EXTRA_QUERY_ARGS = {}
def _get_n_results(self, query, n):
"""Get a specified number of results for a query"""
- video_ids = []
- pagenum = 0
+ videos = []
limit = n
- PAGE_SIZE = 50
- while (PAGE_SIZE * pagenum) < limit:
- result_url = self._API_URL % (
- compat_urllib_parse.quote_plus(query.encode('utf-8')),
- max((PAGE_SIZE * pagenum) + 1), 2)
- data_json = self._download_webpage(
+ for pagenum in itertools.count(1):
+ url_query = {
+ 'search_query': query,
+ 'page': pagenum,
+ 'spf': 'navigate',
+ }
+ url_query.update(self._EXTRA_QUERY_ARGS)
+ result_url = 'https://www.youtube.com/results?' + compat_urllib_parse.urlencode(url_query)
+ data = self._download_json(
result_url, video_id='query "%s"' % query,
- note='Downloading page %s' % (pagenum + 1),
+ note='Downloading page %s' % pagenum,
errnote='Unable to download API page')
- data = json.loads(data_json)
- api_response = data['data']
+ html_content = data[1]['body']['content']
- if 'items' not in api_response:
+ if 'class="search-message' in html_content:
raise ExtractorError(
'[youtube] No video results', expected=True)
- new_ids = list(video['id'] for video in api_response['items'])
- video_ids += new_ids
-
- limit = min(n, api_response['totalItems'])
- pagenum += 1
+ new_videos = self._ids_to_results(orderedSet(re.findall(
+ r'href="/watch\?v=(.{11})', html_content)))
+ videos += new_videos
+ if not new_videos or len(videos) > limit:
+ break
- if len(video_ids) > n:
- video_ids = video_ids[:n]
- videos = [self.url_result(video_id, 'Youtube', video_id=video_id)
- for video_id in video_ids]
+ if len(videos) > n:
+ videos = videos[:n]
return self.playlist_result(videos, query)
class YoutubeSearchDateIE(YoutubeSearchIE):
IE_NAME = YoutubeSearchIE.IE_NAME + ':date'
- _API_URL = 'https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos?q=%s&start-index=%i&max-results=50&v=2&alt=jsonc&orderby=published'
_SEARCH_KEY = 'ytsearchdate'
IE_DESC = 'YouTube.com searches, newest videos first'
+ _EXTRA_QUERY_ARGS = {'search_sort': 'video_date_uploaded'}
class YoutubeSearchURLIE(InfoExtractor):