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Shambho
Shambho

Reputation: 3280

Get the name of a youtube video

I need to get the name of a youtube video from the link. Typically I can do something like this to for a wikipedia page:

doc <- xmlTreeParse("http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google", useInternalNodes=TRUE)
xpathSApply(doc,'//title',xmlValue)

but the following doesn't work for youtube:

doc <- xmlTreeParse("https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuOBzWF0Aws", useInternalNodes=TRUE)

Gives error.

Any help will be much appreciated.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 110

Answers (1)

jdharrison
jdharrison

Reputation: 30425

The XML library cannot download secured links. You can use RCurl and getURL to download the file and then parse with the XML library or in this case ask for a non secure version (http):

library(XML)
appURL <- "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuOBzWF0Aws"
doc <- htmlParse(appURL)
sapply(doc['//*[@id="eow-title"]'], xmlGetAttr, name = "title")

> sapply(doc['//*[@id="eow-title"]'], xmlGetAttr, name = "title")
[1] "If Google was a Guy"

Upvotes: 3

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