Golang : Get YouTube playlist
A programmer productivity can be increased with a good playlist of music to get into the "zone" and I need this while coding out the job board for socketloop.com(1)
Just for fun, this is the Golang code to download a playlist from YouTube, unmarshal the XML data and display the content.
package main
import (
"encoding/xml"
"fmt"
"io/ioutil"
"net/http"
"os"
"strings"
)
type YouTubeEntries struct {
XMLName xml.Name `xml:"entry"`
ID string `xml:"id"`
Published string `xml:"published"`
Updated string `xml:"updated"`
Category string `xml:"category"`
Title string `xml:"title"`
Content string `xml:"content"`
Link string `xml:"link"`
Author string `xml:"author"`
}
type YouTubeFeeds struct {
XMLName xml.Name `xml:"feed"`
YouTubeEntries []YouTubeEntries `xml:"entry"`
}
// modify here to add more data to be displayed
func (data YouTubeEntries) String() string {
dateToYMD := strings.Split(data.Published, "T")
return fmt.Sprintf("\t%s - %s - [%s]\n", dateToYMD[0], data.Title, data.ID)
}
func main() {
response, err := http.Get("http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/playlists/RDXIzDDYrS4iE?v=2")
if err != nil {
fmt.Println(err)
os.Exit(1)
}
defer response.Body.Close()
XMLdata, err := ioutil.ReadAll(response.Body)
if err != nil {
fmt.Println(err)
os.Exit(1)
}
var youtubeFeeds YouTubeFeeds
xml.Unmarshal(XMLdata, &youtubeFeeds)
fmt.Println(youtubeFeeds.YouTubeEntries)
// alternate ways to display the list
for k, v := range youtubeFeeds.YouTubeEntries {
fmt.Printf("\t%d - [%s]\n", k, v)
}
}
Have fun learning Go and YouTube API !
1 - it is still a work in progress and I will announce it soon
Reference :
See also : Read a XML file in Go
By Adam Ng
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