YouTube Operation-5.725.1529

YouTube Operation

Author: Jerry Chae

Description

This plugin operates with YouTube’s video contents. The 5 functions include Get Info, Stream Info, Download, Caption Info, and Caption Get

How to obtain Video ID from YouTube

How to get a YouTube video ID from a youtube.com page URL. You may be watching the video or just happened to visit a link to a video. The video ID will be located in the URL of the video page, right after the v= URL parameter. For example if the URL of the video is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqz-KE-bpKQ, the video ID is “aqz-KE-bpKQ”.

Here is a YouTube video for easier explanation!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liJVSwOiiwg

Input (Required)

• Operation (choose from below)

  • Get Info

  • Stream Info

  • Download

  • Caption Info

  • Caption Get

• Video ID

  • Please see above as to how to obtain Video ID

Advanced Input (optional)

There are optional settings for Download and Caption Get functions

• Download

  • Save File allows you to set the file path and name

  • Stream Index means you can specify a track when the target video has multiple tracks

  • Timeout – when video does not start to download it moves on after specific amount of time (in seconds)

• Capture Get

  • Save Cap File (.xml) allows you to set the file path and name of the file

  • Caption Index allows you to select one track of captions when the video support multiple tracks of captions (ex. multi-lingual)

  • Extract Text option will create a text file only with text from the caption data

Output (Return Value)

• Get Info will return meta data of the video in CSV

• Stream Info will return streaming specifications in CSV

• Download will return the full path of the downloaded mp4 file

• Caption Info will return the meta data of the captions tracks for the video in CSV

• Caption Get will return the full file path of the caption file (either .xml or .txt)

Return Codes

How to set the parameters

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