Feature request: Check the publication date of a video & set limit by date

[reitmanjeff]

It would be nice to have this feature when getting videos from a channel.

video['publishedTimeText']['simpleText']

will return some strings like "13 days ago" or "2 weeks ago" but the result will change over time.
Also, there are some issues when converting text to date.

Is there a way to check the publication date of a video while running get_channel function?

[twissell-]

Hey! I'd also like this to be implemented, but after looking at the code I'm not sure is possible. The function parses the "Videos" tab and the published date is not there (or at least I couldn't find it).

For my use case, I've solved the issue with this workaround:

import os
from datetime import datetime


def fuzzy_date_parser(fuzzy_date: str):
    date_format = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"
    process = os.popen(f"date -d '{fuzzy_date}' '+{date_format}' 2>&1")

    exit_status = os.wait()[1]
    output = process.read()
    if exit_status != 0:
        raise ValueError(f"Error parsing '{fuzzy_date}'. {output}")

    return datetime.strptime(output[:19], date_format)

Note that is just a wrapper of the linux date command. It won't work on windows, but maybe is useful to you.