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I have 50 playlists at Youtube.

Each playlist contains 200 videos

So that is a total of 10000 videos.

Most of these videos are not my own
...they are other peoples videos
but i have added them to my playlists.


I really can not copy all these iD's...one by one into the XML video list
that will take me many months !

Also if i would change these playlists..for example:

Change the order. 
Add a video.
Remove a video.
Video was removed by the owner.

...then i would have to change my PlayerIII XML playlist also
which is a very complicated and a lot of to much work...to do manually ..one by one. 

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So i am looking for a easy way to get all Youtube-videos in a certain Youtube-playlist
in the format that our PlayerIII will accept:
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I'm have already figured out most..so please continue reading below:



Youtube dont give you a simple list with only these (clean iD's)
and "Our" XML does have a different format for Youtube-videos like this:

<video>
<videoPath value="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5e16U8UsT4I"/>
</video>

As said i dont konw of a way to get it like that from Youtube directly
even i would find a way it will always be just 50 videos per request
since that is how youtube works (Gdata) so i have to do 4 request to get
on complete (200) list...still as said the format is NOT suited to copy & paste
directly to our XML list...a manual one by one copy & paste is impossible
and unpractical as i have shown above.

So i need some converter/reformatter..or some texteditor..or notepad-method
to get those youtube-id's and reformat them for our XML.


Here's a tool that was made for me...unfortunately the guy who made it for me
is not interested to do some changes.

Download it from here: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=6LXVYV14

Its not a program but instead a simple webpage that you open locally
a script on that page will show all your playlist and video url's
all you need to do is enter a valid youtube-username in the username field

It works best in > Firefox <

Once you have enter a valid username..you press "EXPORT PLAYLISTS"

and voila you will see the page populate with all your playlists and videos in them
..this time it shows all the videos and not just 50...but all 200 per list.

This is a unique tool...you wont find that anywhere else !
(it's also good to make a backup of your youtube-playlist)

Now as you will see the format of the playlists is like this:


...etc up to 200

"NO LINK" means that this video dont exist anymore (removed,blocked...etc)
which is also a valuable indication..since it will not play in our player
so you can now simply see that..and remove that video from the list



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Now we are almost there ! 


... All that is needed now is some method to convert/format above to our XML format.

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QUESTION
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How to easely convert/reformat above list (text) to our XML-format (text) ?

Example:

005   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCa1GXCaiT4&feature=youtube_gdata   Marc Anthony - El cantante

should become:

<video>
<videoPath value="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCa1GXCaiT4"/>
</video


How to do that ?   (for a whole long list at once)

I have tried some simple "replace" using notepad
but that wont do it..so i guess i need something
where you can filter or add things to a large textfile
so it comes out as needed.

I hope you can help me...cause without it i cant do it
any other way would be welcome also ofcourse

This is really needed to make FlashXpert-players a success
anyone with a few large playlists at Youtube will need a easy way
to import the video-url's into our XML-list.


Thanks


Youtube-expert 
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the passw is:  djmambito


Try it and see how unique it it
unfortunately the guy who made this to my specifications
has disappeared.

As you will see the format of the output can not directly be used
in our player here.

So we would have to copy the video-urls one by one...which is impossible for 8000+ videos

Ideal would be some similar tool where you enter only the youtube-plylist-iD
and the output will be a XML-file in the format needed for our player.

if that is to much work...then we could alternatively have something to
copy the output of my own tool and run it trough something that will remove the unwanted stuff
and add the XML-tags to around the urls as needed. ..i believe such a tool could be called "'search and replace"
but that uses "'expressions" to which i am not familiar with.

Let me know of you succeded in using me tool..and if you can modify it
or make somthing in addition to get it right for our player.

Ps) if you are anywhere near Amsterdam..we could maybe have some coffee somewhere and discuss it.

Glad it worked out.
I was busy with caching for it, in PHP. So it is possible to generate the list using the cronjob like every couple of hours..
It saves people time and handjobs.

Maybe the player is big outside the Netherlands. No one near us had heard of the player before we used it aswell.
It all takes time to make the community big..

I saw it during a search for a good alternative of JWplayer. Had many choices on flashcomponents but this one stands out big time


Greetings Peter

Greetings,

sadly mega upload is down, can you share this tool somewhere else? or email me ?