GUI: How to handle Playlists

chonix commented 4 years ago

Analyze an approach for YT playlists - GUI

RyanSamman commented 4 years ago

My idea is, we make another tab for the playlist section, if you put in a URL with "playlist" in it (normal youtube playlist url after unshortening has "playlist in it"), it will move you into the new tab with all the videos, where you can select what to download and the quality of each video

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pseudo code wise,

Insert a URL with a playlist, press OK button and move the user to the playlist tab
Use YouTube's API (If pytube doesn't support playlists), then get a list of the URLs we have to display
Loop through the URLs, getting the streams and such using pytube
parse and sort the streams according to media type then quality, (is there mp3 btw? that's important),
then go back to the main tab, finish putting your download location

chonix commented 4 years ago

I like that, we can work on a mockup for that, whole GUI there. Also foolproof, if you paste a link for playlist in the single video processing, should take you to the tab for the playlist processing. But that's backend stuff (#14 ) .

RyanSamman commented 4 years ago

Should we include the higher resolution streams? it seems like it would be very hard to merge the audio and video streams if pytube hasn't done it already yet

i'm thinking, first filter off the streams that we can't just simply download (DASH streams not the progressive streams which has two streams audio & video for high quality vids): yt.streams.filter(progressive=True).all()

then, the first stream will be the best stream, use that as the default value for the GUI drop-down box

I'll add to this comment later on filtering, but we can also make a checkbox for audio only or something

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GUI: How to handle Playlists #13