YouTube channels with rss plugin and youtube-dl

@ThrLuQ9 wrote:

HALP!

I am kinda stuck and after hours of fiddling around I guess I have to admit defeat.

I am trying to set up a task that grabs videos from a youtube channel via the rss plugin by handing the feed results over to youtube-dl, but I don't understand how to handle any of the non standard tags the rss feed delivers.

Grabbing the rss feed via curl https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=$channelid shows that the urls to the videos can be found in these tags

<id>yt:video:$videoid</id>
<link rel="alternate" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=$videoid"/>
<yt:videoId>$videoid</yt:videoId>
<media:content url="https://www.youtube.com/v/$videoid?version=3" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="640" height="390"/>

Using the link tag would be the obvious choice, but that did not get me any results (because it's not a standard <link> tag?).

Using link: 'yt:videoId' could work, because the $videoid is enough input for youtube-dl, but using that I end up with an

`ERROR exec $taskname Could not set exec command for $title: (UndefinedError) 'link' is undefined`

Using the media:content tag gives me this

`CRITICAL plugin Tried to set None url to [{'type': 'application/x-shockwave-flash', 'height': '390', 'width': '640', 'url': 'https://www.youtube.com/v/$videoid?version=3'}]`

So, how do I get the video url from this array of key:value pairs and make it the link that can be passed to youtube-dl by exec?

I tried fiddling around with the manipulate plugin but could not figure that out, either : |

This is what I am stuck at right now:

tasks:
  YouTubeChannel:
    rss:
      url: https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=channelid
      all_entries: yes
       link: 'media:content'
    exec:
      allow_background: yes
      auto_escape: yes

      on_output:
        for_accepted:
          - youtube-dl --restrict-filenames -f mp4 -o "/download/" "{{link}}" &

Thanks for reading, I appreciate any input.
Bratzo

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