It would be great if youtube playlist of individual level run videos could be generated with one click. Sure there can be videos of IL runs uploaded to twitch but in my opinion its OK to just ignore them.
For example, if I wanna watch all individual level run videos of Circolo 2 from 1st level to last, then i have to go to individual level page of this game and click all these links one by one. But i want a button that generates a youtube playlist with all these videos.
Ah, apologies. Now I really understand what you ask for. Well, there is no straightforward way to do this. You can suggest that in the feedback thread, but I don't see that being implemented any time. As you said, there can be runs not on YouTube, and there can be more issues with this as well.
You can maybe make a script that will use the site API to get a list of IL records by a game name:
- Get the ID of a game by its name
- Get the categories of the game by its ID, and choose one of the per-level categories of the game
- Take the top-1 records of the chosen category, and make a list of links of all the retrieved runs (while taking only YouTube links)
- Then use one of the methods in the link above to generate an automatic playlist by the list of links You will have to account for sub-category variables if there are any.
Another option is to click on each individual run, but then press on "Watch later". You will still have to do this on all the levels; but you can do that quickly enough, and then you will have an automatic playlist of "watch later" in YouTube, consisting of all the chosen runs.
Note that this is assuming that each run actually contains a video of that run alone. In CircloO 2 for example, I built one video with all my IL runs, and then submitted the runs for each level with the relevant timestamp in the video. I've seen some people doing that technique in several games.
What if those runs aren’t on YouTube? How would that button you want added to the site create a YouTube playlist for you?
Either way, this doesn’t seem like something the site will be adding any time soon (if ever). This site isn’t a video streaming platform, it’s not designed to create video playlists. It’s expected that you’d pick the run you want to watch and watch it. Once it’s done, you’d go to the next one. If you’re looking to surf videos more easily, you’re much better off actually going to YouTube and searching for the ILs there.
To Oreo. Make a script is hard for me. I tried scrape data from site with scraper but failed on scraping video links. Anyway, thank you for reply and idea about “watch later”. Didn't come to my mind. To Timmi. If those videos not on YT script just gonna ignore em. It’s better than nothing.