Wrong channel downloaded

[lightonflux]

Used link: https://youtube.com/@TomScottGo
yt_fts version: 0.1.15

Downloaded subs where from all from @tomscottplus. This is not what i expected.

[TeddyBear06]

Hi,

Do you mean you used this link https://www.youtube.com/@TomScottGo/videos like the command below?

yt-fts download "https://www.youtube.com/@TomScottGo/videos"

If I'm not mistaken, the channel ID is extracted from this specific URL (the /videos at the end of the URL is required).

[NotJoeMartinez]

Seems like this happens on channels where they have extra channels listed on their home page.

problem might be from line 38 in this function because it gets the first channel id it finds:

def get_channel_id(url, s):
    """
    Scrapes channel id from the channel page
    """
    res = s.get(url)
    if res.status_code == 200:
        html = res.text
        channel_id = re.search('channelId":"(.{24})"', html).group(1)
        return channel_id
    else:
        return None

[TeddyBear06]

You're right.

There are multiple channelId matches (exactly 4) on the homepage (but only one the channel's videos page, as expected).

We need to check the given channel URL against the expected pattern.

[lightonflux]

Thanks for adding the code in #52. That would have been good enough. Because i aborted a task, as i "couldn't" download scotts subtitles before, when using the link without /videos.. 👍

The current state is good enough for me. Feel free to close.