Filter videos to unlisted videos from 2017 and before

youtube_api.py

@@ -29,7 +29,10 @@ class YouTubeAPI(object):
     channel = snippet['channelTitle']
     channelId = snippet['channelId']
     description = snippet['description']
-    tags = snippet['tags']
+    try:
+      tags = snippet['tags']
+    except:
+      tags = ''
     privacy = status['privacyStatus']
     return title, date, channel, channelId, description, tags, privacy
 

yt-unlist-saver.py

@@ -2,11 +2,21 @@
 
 from youtube_api import YouTubeAPI
 import sys
+import youtube_dl
 
 # Read YouTube API Key.
 def getYouTubeAPIKey():
   return open('youtube.key', 'r').read()
 
+def getUploadTime(info):
+  return info[1]
+
+def getYear(info):
+  return int(getUploadTime(info)[:4])
+
+def getPrivacy(info):
+  return info[6]
+
 # Print out information about a video.
 def printVideoInfo(info):
   title, date, channel, channelId, description, tags, privacy = info
@@ -18,4 +28,10 @@ def printVideoInfo(info):
   print('Privacy: ' + privacy)  
 
 api = YouTubeAPI(getYouTubeAPIKey())
-print(len(api.getPlaylistVideos(sys.argv[1])))
+videos = api.getPlaylistVideos(sys.argv[1])
+
+videoInfo = [api.getVideoInfo(video['snippet']['resourceId']['videoId']) for video in videos]
+filteredVideos = [video for video in videoInfo if getPrivacy(video) == 'unlisted' and getYear(video) <= 2017]
+
+for v in filteredVideos:
+  print(getYear(v))