Named after the Library of Babel website. This started as an experiment in randomness but now hosts a bunch of experimental programs. I got help from chatGPT, Claude AI, and Bard to write some of them.

• Setup
• New
• Random experiments
• Dice games
• Wikipedia & news
• Google & YouTube APIs
• YouTube downloaders
• YouTube and Geolocation Requirements
• youtubedl/dlvideo.py options
• More

For initial setup, create a virtual environment & run it:

$ python -m venv venv
$ . venv/bin/activate

Then install requirements:

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

Thereafter, just run the second venv line to activate the virtual environment.

To run experiments, type python and the file name. For example, try this one:

$ python ytdl_updated.py

• business_assumptions.py - calculate breakeven cost and amount of drivers needed for a hypothetical future business idea.
• moviesearch.py - prints number of movies released in a range of years.
• Squid game sims - squid_game.py & squid_game01.py - red light green light sim.
• write_key.py - asks for a key and value and adds it to a dictionary. If the dictionary doesn't exist, creates it.
• new YouTube downloaders.
• wordplay/word_or_phrase.py - Asks if you want to generate a random phrase or define a word.

• wordplay/random_sentence.py - Creates random nonsense words and sentences.
  • wordplay/gensen_worddict.py - Expanded wordplay/random_sentence.py. Pulls random words from the https://random-word-api.herokuapp.com/word API endpoint and strings them together to create a sentence, then verifies the sentence against the language_tool_python API.
  • wordplay/random_sentence_save.py - Same as wordplay/random_sentence.py except saves to file.
• wordplay/gen_pass.py - Generate passphrase. Uses the https://random-word-api.herokuapp.com/word API endpoint to generate a passphrase.
• entername.py - Enter your name and get greeted with the current time.
  • givename.py - Runs entername.py and passes in a hardcoded name.

• dice_roles.py - Rolls 2 6-sided dice.
  • dice_roll_anysided - Roll a die with the number of sides specified by the user.
• die_roll_games3.py - 3 games
  1. Choose the number of sides for the die and roll it.
  2. Add to game 1 & see how many rolls it takes to roll the number again.
  3. Play game 2 a number of times.
• die_roll_probability.py - guess how many rolls it will take for game 2 (work in progress)
• die-roll-histogram - roll a die and generate a histogram of the values.

• wiki_articles.py - Display the 10 most recently-updated articles.
• gnews_scraper.py - Scrape the latest 5 Google News headlines based on h4 top stories.
• news_scraper.py - BBC and NY Times headline scraper. Adapted Indently's BBC News Headline scraper to scrape BBC news and New York Times headlines.

requirements

• youtubedl/your_youtube.py - Display the 10 most recently-added YouTube videos.
• youtubedl/youtube_search_loc.py - Display the 10 most recently-added YouTube videos in a specific location.
• youtubedl/yt_loc2.py - User-friendly YouTube search by location.
• lat_long.py - Display the latitude and longitude for an address. Uses the Google Maps API.

Most of these use the yt_dlp YoutubeDL Python class or embedded CLI to download videos.

How to download a video from X/Twitter using the yt-dlp CLI

• open in Firefox, log in, pass the following:
• yt-dlp replaceWithURL --cookies-from-browser firefox::none
• Reference: https://www.reddit.com/r/youtubedl/comments/15wn3mb/ytdlp_cant_download_from_twitter/

Run this to get everything.

• youtubedl/ytdl_updated.py - Updated downloader to download video and description, and download and convert transcript, comments, and live chat.

• youtubedl/ytdl_comments.py - just downloads comments.
• youtubedl/ytdl_livechat.py - just downloads live chat.
• youtubedl/ytdltranscript.py - just downloads transcripts.

These are older and no longer maintained.

• youtubedl/dlvideo.py - (not just YouTube) Download YouTube, TikTok, and other videos from URL using yt_dlp.
• youtubedl/ytdlchatvidthreads.py - Download YouTube Live video and chat.
• youtubedl/commentdl.py - Download comments from YouTube video. Saves output as a JSON and CSV file. Depends on youtubedl/youtube_functions.py.
• youtubedl/ytlivechatcommentdl.py - Download YouTube live stream video, live chat, and comments. Extracts comments and live chat to CSV.
  • Consolidates youtubedl/ytdlchatvidthreads.py, youtubedl/main_extraction.py and youtubedl/commentdl.py.
  • Uses youtubedl/youtube_functions.py and youtubedl/youtube_functions2.py.
• youtubedl/ytlive-chatextract.py - Extract YouTube live chat from JSON to CSV.
• youtubedl/ytdltranscript.py - Download YouTube transcript and save cleaned version without timecodes to text file. Uses youtubedl/youtube_functions.py

• youtubedl/youtube_functions.py - Functions used in youtubedl/ytlivechatcommentdt.py, youtubedl/commentdl.py, and youtubedl/ytdltranscript.py.
• youtubedl/youtube_functions2.py - Used in youtubedl/ytlivechatcommentdt.py and youtubedl/ytlive-chatextract.py.
  • Uses youtubedl/extract_functions.py.

Required for Google & YouTube API apps

• Sign up to develop with the Google Cloud Platform, create a project, and activate the YouTube Data API v3 and the Geocoding API.
• Create an .env file with YOUTUBE_API_KEY=yourapikey and MAPS_API_KEY=yourmapsapikey.

Suggested for YouTube downloaders

• Programs using yt_dlp, such as randtube & rectube - you should install ffmpeg. Easiest way on macOS is through homebrew: brew install ffmpeg See for more: https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/CompilationGuide/macOS.

# other options
ydl_opts = {
  'listformats': True, # list available formats
}

ydl_opts = {
  'format' : '00' # enter format ID
  'merge_output_format': 'mp4',  # Ensure the final output is in mp4 format
}

ydl_opts = {
  'format': 'bestvideo[height<=720]+bestaudio/best[height<=720]', # download up to 720p video
  'merge_output_format': 'mp4',  # Ensure the final output is in mp4 format
}

See Programming notes.