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Diffstat (limited to 'youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py | 20 |
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py index 0301682b8..fcdbfe0bc 100644 --- a/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py +++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py @@ -1399,6 +1399,26 @@ class YoutubeChannelIE(InfoExtractor): channel_id = self._match_id(url) url = self._TEMPLATE_URL % channel_id + + # Channel by page listing is restricted to 35 pages of 30 items, i.e. 1050 videos total (see #5778) + # Workaround by extracting as a playlist if managed to obtain channel playlist URL + # otherwise fallback on channel by page extraction + channel_page = self._download_webpage( + url + '?view=57', channel_id, + 'Downloading channel page', fatal=False) + channel_playlist_id = self._search_regex( + [r'<meta itemprop="channelId" content="([^"]+)">', + r'data-channel-external-id="([^"]+)"'], + channel_page, 'channel id', default=None) + if channel_playlist_id and channel_playlist_id.startswith('UC'): + playlist_id = 'UU' + channel_playlist_id[2:] + channel_playlist = unescapeHTML(self._search_regex( + r'href="/?(watch\?v=[0-9A-Za-z_-]{11}&list=%s)"' % playlist_id, + channel_page, 'channel playlist URL', default=None)) + if channel_playlist: + return self.url_result( + compat_urlparse.urljoin(url, '/%s' % channel_playlist), 'YoutubePlaylist') + channel_page = self._download_webpage(url, channel_id, 'Downloading page #1') autogenerated = re.search(r'''(?x) class="[^"]*?(?: |