How to check if a youtube video is shorts or not using nodejs?

Divyansh Agrawal — Wed, 09 Feb 2022 12:57:47 +0000

What if I gave you a youtube video id and asked you to tell Me wether the video is shorts or not without opening it?
How Would You do that?
Simple -
Introducing identify-youtube-shorts npm package
It allows you to easily check if a youtube video is youtube shorts or not

Example

const checkIfYoutubeShorts = require('identify-youtube-shorts');
const videoID = "dQw4w9WgXcQ";
async function example(videoID){
    const ifShorts = await checkIfYoutubeShorts(videoID);
    console.log(ifShorts);
}
example(videoID)

It will print whether the youtube video with the id - dQw4w9WgXcQ is a youtube short or not.

Installation

Easy Just use npm i identify-youtube-shorts

Read more about it here - https://www.npmjs.com/package/identify-youtube-shorts

How to Use Google to Download Fast from Slow Sites or Mirrors?

Divyansh Agrawal — Tue, 01 Feb 2022 15:13:04 +0000

So... You want to download a Large file of about assume 500 MBs. But The Site is very slow and You Are Getting A Lot Slower download speeds than usual (assume 1 MB/s).
The Just Use Google Colab (google has pretty high speeds ngl)

But How?

Don't Know How to Do it Follow the steps:

1) Go to Google Colab (Obviously...)
2) Create a New Notebook
3) In the first cell write the following code:

!wget <url>

change the url according to the direct download url (Redirecting urls will not work)

4) Run the cell and wait till it download
5) In a New Cell write the following code to check the filename of the file downloaded

!ls

Copy the filename to your clipboard

6) In a New Cell We Have to download the file. Write the following code

from google.colab import files
files.download('<filename>')

Change the filename with the name you copied

7) Run the cell and you will see a bar in the output showing your progress. After Some time You will get a save file prompt to finally save the downloaded file to your computer.