Get YouTube Playlist Data [requests+bs4]

## return some data (including a list of videos) from a given YouTube playlist link #####
### [ screenshot of an example with pandas at https://i.stack.imgur.com/UKjp3.png ] #####
### [ another example at bottom - with output at https://pastebin.com/wdZWm6q1 ] ########

import json
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

def scrape_playlist_data(playlist_url):
    pSoup = BeautifulSoup((r:=requests.get(playlist_url)).content, 'html.parser')
    rStatus = f'<Response [{r.status_code} {r.reason}]> from {r.url}'
    def extract_vid_val(val):
        if isinstance(val, dict):
            if isinstance(val.get('runs'), list):
                return ' '.join([str(r.get('text','')) for r in val['runs']])
            return val.get('simpleText', val)
        if isinstance(val, list) and val:
          tKey, adKey = 'thumbnailOverlayTimeStatusRenderer', 'accessibilityData'
          if (x:=getattr(val[0],'get',{}.get)(tKey)):
              try: return x['text']['accessibility'][adKey]['label']
              except: pass
          return [extract_vid_val(v) for v in val]
        return val

    jScript = pSoup.select_one('script:-soup-contains("var ytInitialData")')
    pDets, title = {}, pSoup.title.text.strip() if pSoup.title else None
    try:
        jData = json.loads(jScript.string.split('=',1)[-1].strip().rstrip(';'))
        pDets = {'playlistId': jData.get('playlistId'), **{
            k: extract_vid_val(v) for k,v in
            jData['header']['playlistHeaderRenderer'].items() if k in
            [ 'playlistId', 'title', 'numVideosText', 'descriptionText',
              'ownerText', 'viewCountText', 'shareData', 'isEditable', 'privacy' ]
        }}

        keysList = [
            'contents', 'twoColumnBrowseResultsRenderer', 'tabs', 0,
            'tabRenderer', 'content', 'sectionListRenderer', 'contents', 0,
            'itemSectionRenderer', 'contents', 0, 'playlistVideoListRenderer'
        ]
        for k in keysList: jData = jData[k]
        for k in ['playlistId', 'isEditable', 'canReorder', 'targetId']:
            pDets.setdefault(k, jData.get(k))

        vidsData = [{
            k: extract_vid_val(v) for k,v in vid['playlistVideoRenderer'].items()
        } for vid in jData['contents']]
    except Exception as e: vidsData, rStatus = [], f'{rStatus}\n{e!r}'

    # print(len(vidsData), 'results - ', rStatus)
    for i, v in enumerate(vidsData):
        vidsData[i]['videoLink'] = 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v='+v['videoId']
    total_seconds = sum([ int(str(v['lengthSeconds'])) for v in vidsData
                          if str(v.get('lengthSeconds')).isdigit()        ])

    return {  'inputUrl':playlist_url, 'title': title, **pDets, 'videos': vidsData,
              'vidoesCount': len(vidsData), 'total_seconds': total_seconds  }
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######################################## EXAMPLE ########################################
if __name__ == "__main__":                                                        #######
    url = 'https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5A4nPQbUF8CJ-l7eiAAyoaVrbaM4p2zU' ####
    data = scrape_playlist_data(url)                                               ######
    with open('paste_UYJUqtXF_op.json', 'w') as f: json.dump(f, data)              ######
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