📅 2025-08-04 — Session: Automated YouTube Video Backfill and Markdown Generation
🕒 18:10–19:00
🏷️ Labels: Python, Youtube, CSV, Markdown, Automation
📂 Project: Dev
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM
Session Goal
The session aimed to automate the backfilling of YouTube video data into CSV files and generate Markdown files from this data for documentation purposes.
Key Activities
- Developed a Python script to backfill YouTube uploads into CSV files for specified date ranges, utilizing the
fetch_videos_sincefunction for efficient data retrieval and date filtering. - Implemented a batch Markdown renderer script to process CSV video data, generating Markdown files with metadata for each video batch.
- Modified scripts to include date or date-range in CSV filenames to ensure unique timestamped files.
- Adjusted argument parsing in scripts to enhance usability, changing positional arguments to optional ones.
Achievements
- Successfully automated the backfilling of YouTube video data into CSV files with appropriate date-range filenames.
- Generated Markdown files from CSV data, including video metadata such as video ID, publication date, and thumbnails.
- Improved script usability through refined argument parsing.
Pending Tasks
- Further optimization of the Markdown generation process to handle larger datasets efficiently.
- Explore additional metadata inclusion for enhanced documentation.