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authorGravatar Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2013-12-30 13:35:33 -0400
committerGravatar Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2013-12-30 13:35:33 -0400
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parent895a0bf1e92f560a6531188f4ffb5c43c3c80338 (diff)
tell how to find youtube playlist feeds
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@@ -94,8 +94,12 @@ either load the short url in a browser to get the full url, or you
can force use of quvi with redirect detection, by prepending "quvi:" to the
url.
-To download a youtube playlist, find the feed associated with that
-playlist, and pass it to `git annex importfeed`.
+To download a youtube playlist, you need to find the feed associated with that
+playlist, and pass it to `git annex importfeed`. There does not seem to be
+an easy link anywhere to get the feed, but you can construct its url
+manually. For a playlist like
+"https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4F80C7D2DC8D9B6C", the
+feed is "http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/playlists/PL4F80C7D2DC8D9B6C"
## podcasts