curl -s "https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/videos?part=snippet,statistics&chart=mostPopular&maxResults=50&key=$API_KEY" | python3 -c "import sys, json, xml.etree.ElementTree as ET; data=json.load(sys.stdin); root=ET.Element('feed'); [ET.SubElement(root, 'entry', id=i['id']).extend([ET.Element('title', text=i['snippet']['title']), ET.Element('views', text=i['statistics'].get('viewCount','0'))]) for i in data['items']]; print(ET.tostring(root, encoding='unicode'))" > $OUTPUT_FILE
# Not recommended for complex queries curl "https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/videos?part=snippet&chart=mostPopular&alt=xml&key=$API_KEY" youtube api keyxml download top
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if response.status_code == 200: return response.json() else: print(f"Error: response.status_code - response.text") return None curl -s "https://www
<?xml version="1.0" ?> <feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:yt="http://www.youtube.com/xml/schemas/2015"> <title>YouTube Top Videos - US</title> <updated>2025-03-05T14:22:10.123456</updated> <entry> <id>yt:video:dQw4w9WgXcQ</id> <title>Never Gonna Give You Up</title> <author><name>Rick Astley</name></author> <yt:statistics viewCount="1500000000" likeCount="10000000" commentCount="500000"/> <published>2009-10-25T06:57:33Z</published> <link href="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/dQw4w9WgXcQ/hqdefault.jpg" rel="enclosure"/> </entry> </feed> xml.etree.ElementTree as ET