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authorGravatar Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name>2015-04-29 13:05:36 -0400
committerGravatar Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name>2015-04-29 13:05:36 -0400
commit06f5e9f8334a1211ff5db49661af3bc37b311908 (patch)
treed6e25ef10a6b744bf39e96dcddce9fc467d577f2
parentf8dce24c70d346f6b409cf3485cfa2d3f4eb6854 (diff)
better document youtube playlists
-rw-r--r--doc/bugs/git_annex_importfeed_not_working_on_youtube_playlists.mdwn8
-rw-r--r--doc/tips/downloading_podcasts.mdwn4
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/bugs/git_annex_importfeed_not_working_on_youtube_playlists.mdwn b/doc/bugs/git_annex_importfeed_not_working_on_youtube_playlists.mdwn
index 3b511ca9a..2306642fc 100644
--- a/doc/bugs/git_annex_importfeed_not_working_on_youtube_playlists.mdwn
+++ b/doc/bugs/git_annex_importfeed_not_working_on_youtube_playlists.mdwn
@@ -29,3 +29,11 @@ For example:
This is on Mac OSX 10.10.3, with git-annex installed via homebrew
+> You have to give it an url to a RSS feed containing the playlist.
+>
+> For example, `git annex importfeed
+> 'http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/playlists/PLz8ZG1e9MPlzefklz1Gv79icjywTXycR-'`
+> still works despite there having been various news stories about youtube
+> removing RSS functionality.
+>
+> I've added this example to the documentation. [[done]] --[[Joey]]
diff --git a/doc/tips/downloading_podcasts.mdwn b/doc/tips/downloading_podcasts.mdwn
index fb875180d..e11825420 100644
--- a/doc/tips/downloading_podcasts.mdwn
+++ b/doc/tips/downloading_podcasts.mdwn
@@ -75,6 +75,10 @@ If your git-annex is also built with quvi support, you can also use
`git annex importfeed` on youtube playlists. It will automatically download
the videos linked to by the playlist.
+For this you need an rss file containing links to the videos.
+For example, this url currently works:
+<http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/playlists/PLz8ZG1e9MPlzefklz1Gv79icjywTXycR->
+
## metadata
As well as storing the urls for items imported from a feed, git-annex can