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Random YouTube Video

The last day of July is here!

YouTube videos are identified by 11 character alphanumeric strings (including "-"). Your goal for today is to generate a link for a random YouTube video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOUR_STRING_HERE). For bonus points create a programmatic way to test that the link actually works.

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Comments:

  • Nick Krichevsky - 10 years, 4 months ago

    import requests
from random import choice,getrandbits

chars = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz1234567890-'
baseUrl = "http://youtube.com/watch?v="
url = str(baseUrl)
for i in range (11):
    c = choice(chars)
    if c.isalpha():
        if (bool(getrandbits(1))):
            url+=c.upper()
    url+=c
print url
q = requests.get(url)
if 'This video is unavailable.' in q.text:
    print "Video does not exist"

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  • Max Burstein - 10 years, 4 months ago

    Good stuff!

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