Mr Speaker

AI Class Playlists

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Lil' reference for anyone doing the Stanford AI class... It's a collection of playlists for each unit, so you can grab them with something like youtube-dl (I use the command youtube-dl -w -t -f 18 http://playlisturl. I didn't check what those flags do, but it says "wtf", and that's all that matters).

As a post note, these playlists were generated using a quick-and-dirty jQuery script to scrape and sort the video page, and a python script using the GData APIs to create and populate the playlists. If you want to D-I-Y, then the Playlist Uploader Gist is now available!

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24 Comments

  1. Nice Site. -w is for no-overwrite, going to add it to mine. -t is the best, it saves the video as the title and not just the XSEWFA_R or whatever code. I migth be wrong but -f 18 is redundant as format 18 is the default.
    I use youtube-dl -cit (to continue upon errors and ignore errors)
    None the less, thanx for the playlists.

    Wednesday, October 26, 2011 at 9:05 pm | Permalink

  2. How does this work? with the “reddit” method I receive error 402, with the playlist I can download the 1st video of the list.

    Friday, October 28, 2011 at 3:13 am | Permalink

  3. Which playlist isn’t working? What’s the “reddit” method? I’m downloading Unit 6 right now with:

    ./youtube-dl.py -w -t -f 18 http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBC6833C96B44DB57

    Friday, October 28, 2011 at 6:19 pm | Permalink

  4. Awesome, thanks!
    BTW, I also love your captcha! I missed reddit’s one a couple of times;-)

    Monday, October 31, 2011 at 3:54 am | Permalink

  5. Nice, thx!

    Are you planning to keep the list updated for future units or would you be able to share the script?

    Monday, October 31, 2011 at 6:22 pm | Permalink

  6. Hey Sumod – I’ll try and keep the lists up-to-date… My scripts have a couple of cruddy manual steps, but I might throw them up here anyway (Update: they’re here… https://gist.github.com/1333398/)

    Wednesday, November 2, 2011 at 8:01 pm | Permalink

  7. good job with youtube-dl. Btw how can we find new units 7-8 in youtube?

    Wednesday, November 2, 2011 at 8:23 pm | Permalink

  8. -f 18 is not default for me… it gives me
    640×360, without “-f 18” i get 1280×720

    Thursday, November 3, 2011 at 2:50 am | Permalink

  9. A million thanks!

    Thursday, November 3, 2011 at 3:14 pm | Permalink

  10. here is unit 10:

    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9E1114194D27CC77

    Monday, November 7, 2011 at 5:51 am | Permalink

  11. Thanks a lot !

    Tuesday, November 8, 2011 at 11:52 pm | Permalink

  12. Now the script works. But where are the answer for HW 4 & 5?

    Tuesday, November 22, 2011 at 4:18 am | Permalink

  13. Hey Abe – the homework answers are not posted in the “knowitvideos” account, but in the private “davidknowlabs” account where you need to know the URL to see the vids – so it escapes the scripts. I have to snag the URLS manually for these, but I’ve been a bit lazy… sorry!

    Tuesday, November 22, 2011 at 7:48 am | Permalink

  14. Thanks for the great site. The game theory videos stop in the middle of the unit, there are more of them at ai-class.org

    [Hey Andrew, thanks for the heads up – I re-uploaded unit 14. – Mr Speaker]

    Friday, November 25, 2011 at 3:57 pm | Permalink

  15. Thanks a lot for playlist.

    Saturday, November 26, 2011 at 9:13 pm | Permalink

  16. hi,
    will u be uploading the playlist for unit 17, 18 and HW7 anytime soon? I’m so used to downloading and watching the videos now.
    thanks

    Friday, December 2, 2011 at 12:44 am | Permalink

  17. Any plans for latest video playlists?

    Wednesday, December 14, 2011 at 8:20 pm | Permalink

  18. Sorry for the delay: youtube went and redesigned their site, so I had to update my scripts ;)

    Wednesday, December 14, 2011 at 8:50 pm | Permalink

  19. For the finals playlist:
    http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA58B8C35BC64F26C

    Thanks
    Ricardo

    Friday, December 16, 2011 at 10:20 am | Permalink

  20. Hi Mr Speaker,

    Really appreciate you offering these playlists!
    Do you have any plans to include the answers for all homework questions like you did for the first three units?

    Thanks!

    Saturday, December 17, 2011 at 5:09 am | Permalink

  21. Thank you very much. I missed lectures from the midterm and the final is up… I needed that downloads to get through the lectures in speed.. U r a lifesaver

    Monday, December 19, 2011 at 2:39 am | Permalink

  22. Thanks a lot Mr.Speaker. This list has been very helpful in my AI class prep.

    Would it be possible for you to list the answers videos also for all the HWs and exams (of course finals is not over yet (19/12) :-))

    Thanks again for your great effort.

    Monday, December 19, 2011 at 4:30 pm | Permalink

  23. Worried that I won’t have access to the site after the end of the class, I’m downloading all the videos.

    Do you think you will have updated playlists with the answers for the homework’s and final?

    Tuesday, December 20, 2011 at 5:17 pm | Permalink

  24. Here is the playlist for HW4 to Final answers
    http://www.youtube.com/user/AIClassHomeWork/videos

    Sunday, December 25, 2011 at 7:21 am | Permalink
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