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I play some games, often those of the kind: easy to learn, hard to master (and I've played serious sometimes, but not nowadays). Recently I've been playing the great Race Driver: GRID. (Which is really hard to master with only a keyboard, probably impossible.)

In this game you can race the prestigious 24 Hours of Le Mans, a endurance race of 24 hours that has 4 classes, many teams per class, each class has 3 drivers (yes, of course, they switch drivers to reach the 24h mark).

All right, what a Python code snippet has to do with all this? Nothing much, actually (I just got very excited about the whole Le Mans thing), but the thing is that I went searching for videos on YouTube about Le Mans and found some real nice videos in a specific playlist. I wanted to extract all the links from that playlist, for further use later, and then ended writing the simple script below.

It will grab the links from the Google Data API, using the playlist id. The details are inside the script comments.

Besides the code, which is really simple and short, the whole post's point is that I love this excitement feeling when you get interested in something then goes and writes some code, hopefully useful. This gives me the stamina to write even more (plus commenting it), stop to write down a blog post (and actually searching for images, editing, etc), so all this even could result in a little project. Not this subject, the playlist reader, but could be anything.