Log Downloaded Youtube Videos

Given a folder path, this code will get all the videos and music files(.mp4, .mp3) in a folder and it's subdirectories and output usefull information about them in a .json file.

Note

FFMPEG is used to get the video/music duration and pytube helps with finding it's youtube information, make sure both of them are properly installed.
FFMPEG download tab
Pytubefix github repository

Usage example

Suppose we have a folder with 2 videos in the path C:\Hypothetical folder we would just open the LogYoutubeVideos.py and input this path.
Then, a Hypothetical folder.json file will be created in the same folder with the following information:

[
  "C:\\Hypothetical folder",
  {
    "Lazy Afternoons - Kingdom Hearts II Music Extended.mp4": {
      "Youtube": {
        "Title": "Lazy Afternoons - Kingdom Hearts II Music Extended",
        "URL": "https://youtube.com/watch?v=MNBPHmEkPhU",
        "i": 1
      },
      "Length": "30:00",
      "Modification date": "14/07/2024 02:17:16",
      "Creation date": "14/07/2024 02:16:56",
      "Bytes": 39958369,
      "Megabytes": 38.1
    },
    "surskit - a.mp4": {
      "Youtube": {
        "Title": "surskit - a",
        "URL": "https://youtube.com/watch?v=PYNYpkZLhXY",
        "i": 1
      },
      "Length": "0:11",
      "Modification date": "14/07/2024 02:50:36",
      "Creation date": "14/07/2024 02:50:35",
      "Bytes": 502975,
      "Megabytes": 0.5
    }
  }
]

Youtube information

The file's name will be get and be put on a youtube search by pytube, then it will iterate through the found videos and if they have the same length as the file, their names (without invalid characters for a filename) will be compared, if it is a exact match, it will stop searching, otherwise it will look for more videos, up to ~100

If no exact match is found, the first video with the exact time duration that was shown will be chosen, if there is none, a "No match found." will be outputted in it's place.

When a video is chosen, it's title, URL, and "i" will be present in the Youtube object, i being the chosen video's position in the results. The result may be inaccurate if the video name is too generic, short or it's view count is too low.

Note

As youtube is ocasionally changing, sometimes conflicts with it and pytube's code may arise,
pytube's original repository is no longer being maintained or updated, but using the latest version of pytubefix should work.