Youtube – Possible to get feed of user’s uploaded+favorited videos

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I know how to get a feed of the videos a user uploaded:

http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/base/users/KeepWatchingTheSkies/uploads?alt=rss&v=2&orderby=published&client=ytapi-youtube-profile

and I know how to get a feed of the videos a user favorited:

http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/base/users/KeepWatchingTheSkies/favorites?alt=rss&v=2&orderby=published&client=ytapi-youtube-profile

but is there any way to get a combined feed containing both uploads and favorites?

I can try to combine them manually, but if it's possible to get an already-combined feed from YouTube, that would be preferable.

Best Answer

I could see a couple of options to accomplish this:

You could use Yahoo Pipes to quickly and easily generate a new feed with the combination of the 2 feeds you have already found. No code to write, easy to get started.
You could write the code to combine the feeds manually as you suggested. Depending on how you plan to display or use the combined feed, you will want to take care in sorting to interleave the 2 feeds based on dates.
You could use the YouTube Data API to request the activity feed for the user. This isn't as easy to try in a browser or RSS reader because you need to have, use, and send a developer key as part of the HTTP request headers in order to get results. Then you will want to filter out activity feed items that are not of interest to you - e.g. when a user subscribes to a channel, comments on a video, etc. According to your question you will just want to grab any entry elements where the category term is marked with 'video_uploaded' or 'video_favorited'. Here is the link to the documentation on using the YouTube activity feeds through the YouTube data APIs: Documentation on YouTube activity feeds

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import gdata.youtube
import gdata.alt.appengine
import gdata.youtube.service

class Index(webapp.RequestHandler):
    def get(self):
        client = gdata.youtube.service.YouTubeService()
        feed = client.GetRecentlyFeaturedVideoFeed()
        gdata.alt.appengine.run_on_appengine(client)

        self.response.out.write('<html><body>')
        for entry in feed.entry:
            self.response.out.write('<div>%s</div>' %entry.media.description)
        self.response.out.write('</html></body>')

If you are using a rendering template like Django, instead of self response call the rendering function of the template and pass the variable feed, in your html file call Django variables like this:

replace the self.response with:

templates.render(self, 'home.html',
                    feed=feed,
                 )

and add to your html:

{% for entry in feed.entry %}
    <div>{{entry.media.description}}</div>
{% endfor %}

YouTube – Can Uploaded Videos Be Rotated?

There is no longer any way to rotate existing videos without re-uploading.

As of 22 August 2018, most of the video editing features were removed from YouTube. You are expected to use a separate video editing tool for most things.

If you have uploaded a video and afterwards decide you should have rotated it, you will need to use a video editor to rotate the original and re-upload. If you no longer have the original you can download the video from your YouTube account and follow the same edit/re-upload process.

You can view the full post from Jordan on the YouTube Help Forum, but here are the relevant details:

As of August 22, the following will no longer be available in Creator Studio Classic:

Note: Any videos published with enhancements before August 22 will not be affected. Also, we’re not planning to bring the below classic Enhancement features to YouTube Studio beta.

Auto-fix

Stabilize

Fill Light

Contrast

Saturation

Color Temperature

Slow Motion

Timelapse

Filters

Rotate

Features that will still be available in Creator Studio Classic (and coming soon to YouTube Studio beta):

Trim

Blur faces

Custom Blurring

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