With the advent of RSS feeds/ youtube/ web 2.0, watching the latest fashion trends is all but one click of a button where you either go to FTV.com itself or youtube FTV channels to get your fashion geek on. But, as anyone who looks carefully notices, " only " 30 of latest videos are shown on a page, to get more videos one needs to press " Load More ". RSS feeds is the preferred mass transmission medium used to reach a large audience at any given time, where its just " plain text " can deliver [ only ] 30 links with very little bandwidth usage at a time. If one yearns to watch the entire list of videos on a given youtube channel, sorry to say but, it has to be " point/click a link at a time ". In the case of FTV F Hot youtube channel videos, there were 1083 unique links [ 02-10-2013 ] to { right click save to text file } at the rate of [ one link at a time ]. No prob you say, you can either select what videos you want to watch, but for those who want to " download now/ watch later " arrives at this very interesting problem. Having tried online url extraction tools to see if it was possible to " mass extract " [ all ] the video links on a channel by 1 click, i discovered, even those tools only extract 30 links of the entire channel itself, and its only the " latest 30 videos ". So, how to complete this task ? and who benefits from " mass downloading " ?
- to mass download an entire video library of the youtube channel in question, tried & tested & proven method is 1 video at a time. Err, but not that many of people can sit through an entire channel download. Theory has its flaws but it works !!!.
- who benefits from this task - those who have " Media Centre PCs" & for long commuters where you can cram a media device with videos to be watched " offline " with no internet usage cost. Also benefited by those who use mass downloaders like Flashget.
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| 30 latest RSS feeds limit on a youtube channel |
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| 30th RSS feed highlighted on the youtube channel |
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| FTV F Hot youtube channel |
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| 1083 links for FTV F Hot - 02-10-2013 |
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| 50 of above video links added to the Download Manager |
- Synology Download Manager can only que 50 links at a time.
It took me just 3 hrs to right click/save to text file [ all ] 1083 F Hot youtube channel links
- Today by accident, i discovered a way to mass download queuing entire youtube video lists with no time consuming 1 to 1 copy/paste which was done as a test which is a bloody waste of time to say the least.
- The trick is, this depends on whether " new videos " are automatically added to a playlist on a channel. If it is, simply adding that playlist will be queuing tons and tons of videos with 1 click. This WILL super saturate your network till every last link in that playlist is completely downloaded.
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| sample FTV F Hot Recent Uploads [ 4704 videos ] |
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| various FTV playlists |
This howto is for " single user client " for personal home use ONLY. Sole purpose of this " How to guide " was the automation of daily download of respective videos. Mass uploading of these downloaded content [ 1 to many ] on sharing sites is a violation of copyright laws. Copyright is held by the respective publishers of these videos/ channels where content transmitted is in its original publication format.
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