VidHooley Posted April 30, 2021 Share Posted April 30, 2021 I recently started trying to grab more videos (public domain) from YouTube. Previously I could enter a playlist and download the complete list. Now with the newest version it seems I am limited to 96 videos. Is this something that changed with the grabber, or maybe a setting, or could it be something YouTube changed? Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tech Support Posted April 30, 2021 Share Posted April 30, 2021 It was never possible to parse full lists in Youtube. The reason is that Youtube doesn't provide public pagination controls, so there is no way to parse their site and find new videos. Youtube grabber can only parse some last videos, typically this was 24 videos. If your channel, playlist or search page contains more you will have to manually list (copy-paste) all videos to grab them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VidHooley Posted April 30, 2021 Author Share Posted April 30, 2021 Thank you, I guess I'm lucky to be able to grab 96 at a time. This can be very labor intensive when a list may have 300 plus titles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tech Support Posted April 30, 2021 Share Posted April 30, 2021 Please try this plugin https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/link-klipper-extract-all/fahollcgofmpnehocdgofnhkkchiekoo?hl=en It says: Quote This extension allows you to : - Custom drag a selectable area on the webpage from which all the links will be extracted I guess with Youtube you can scroll your page down to have all 300 videos appear / load on the page and then try to select this area and see if it populates all the links. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VidHooley Posted May 1, 2021 Author Share Posted May 1, 2021 Well, looks good in theory. I tried it on a playlist with 180 videos. The list looked perfect, but once inserted into the grabber it somehow came up showing 5880 videos...wth? Thanks for the try. Maybe with some trial and error I can get it to work. But right now I've already got probably several days of background tasks and processing several hundred videos and movies to complete yet before I can even sit down to edit, approve, and activate them all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tech Support Posted May 1, 2021 Share Posted May 1, 2021 Looks like the list of links the plugin extracts contains redundant links to some other playlists maybe, or to user profiles. You should filter it out and only keep video links. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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