allowing to add playlist to queue

tubearchivist/home/src/download.py

@@ -41,6 +41,9 @@ class PendingList:
                     url, limit=False
                 )
                 missing_videos = missing_videos + youtube_ids
+            elif url_type == 'playlist':
+                youtube_ids = playlist_extractor(url)
+                missing_videos = missing_videos + youtube_ids
 
         return missing_videos
 
@@ -366,6 +369,18 @@ class ChannelSubscription:
         channel_handler.sync_to_videos()
 
 
+def playlist_extractor(playlist_id):
+    """ return youtube_ids from a playlist_id """
+    url = 'https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=' + playlist_id
+    obs = {
+        'default_search': 'ytsearch', 'quiet': True, 'ignoreerrors': True,
+        'skip_download': True, 'extract_flat': True
+    }
+    playlist = youtube_dl.YoutubeDL(obs).extract_info(url, download=False)
+    playlist_vids = [(i['id'], i['title']) for i in playlist['entries']]
+    return playlist_vids
+
+
 class VideoDownloader:
     """ handle the video download functionality """
 

tubearchivist/home/src/helper.py

@@ -42,16 +42,24 @@ def clean_string(file_name):
 
 def process_url_list(url_str):
     """ parse url_list to find valid youtube video or channel ids """
+    to_replace = ['watch?v=', 'playlist?list=']
     url_list = re.split('\n+', url_str[0])
     youtube_ids = []
     for url in url_list:
-        url_clean = url.strip().split('/')[-1].replace('watch?v=', '')
+        url_clean = url.strip().split('/')[-1]
+        for i in to_replace:
+            url_clean = url_clean.replace(i, '')
         url_no_param = url_clean.split('&')[0]
         str_len = len(url_no_param)
         if str_len == 11:
             link_type = 'video'
         elif str_len == 24:
             link_type = 'channel'
+        elif str_len == 34:
+            link_type = 'playlist'
+        else:
+            # unable to parse
+            return False
 
         youtube_ids.append({"url": url_no_param, "type": link_type})