Add --no-vods flag using isLiveContent detection

README.md

@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ python3 latest3.py "https://www.youtube.com/@ludwig/videos"
 python3 latest3.py "@ludwig" --json
 python3 latest3.py "https://www.youtube.com/@ludwig/videos" --limit 3 --json
 python3 latest3.py "https://www.youtube.com/@ludwig/videos" --limit 3 --no-shorts
+python3 latest3.py "https://www.youtube.com/@ludwig/videos" --limit 3 --no-vods
+python3 latest3.py "https://www.youtube.com/@ludwig/videos" --limit 3 --no-shorts --no-vods
 ```
 
 ## Output fields
@@ -31,6 +33,7 @@ python3 latest3.py "https://www.youtube.com/@ludwig/videos" --limit 3 --no-short
 - `--limit N` how many videos to return (1-20)
 - `--json` output as JSON
 - `--no-shorts` exclude URLs matching `/shorts/`
+- `--no-vods` exclude livestream VODs (`isLiveContent=true` on watch page)
 
 ## Notes
 

latest3.py

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import urllib.error
 import urllib.parse
 import urllib.request
 import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
+from functools import lru_cache
 
 UA = "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/124.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"
 
@@ -53,7 +54,15 @@ def extract_channel_id(html: str) -> str:
     raise RuntimeError("Could not resolve channel ID from URL")
 
 
-def fetch_latest_from_feed(channel_id: str, limit: int = 3, no_shorts: bool = False):
+@lru_cache(maxsize=512)
+def is_live_content(video_id: str) -> bool:
+    watch_url = f"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v={video_id}"
+    html = http_get(watch_url)
+    m = re.search(r'"isLiveContent":(true|false)', html)
+    return bool(m and m.group(1) == "true")
+
+
+def fetch_latest_from_feed(channel_id: str, limit: int = 3, no_shorts: bool = False, no_vods: bool = False):
     feed_url = f"https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id={channel_id}"
     xml_text = http_get(feed_url)
     root = ET.fromstring(xml_text)
@@ -75,6 +84,9 @@ def fetch_latest_from_feed(channel_id: str, limit: int = 3, no_shorts: bool = Fa
         if no_shorts and "/shorts/" in (url or ""):
             continue
 
+        if no_vods and vid and is_live_content(vid):
+            continue
+
         out.append(
             {
                 "id": vid,
@@ -92,11 +104,11 @@ def fetch_latest_from_feed(channel_id: str, limit: int = 3, no_shorts: bool = Fa
     return out
 
 
-def get_latest_videos(channel_url_or_handle: str, limit: int = 3, no_shorts: bool = False):
+def get_latest_videos(channel_url_or_handle: str, limit: int = 3, no_shorts: bool = False, no_vods: bool = False):
     normalized = normalize_channel_url(channel_url_or_handle)
     html = http_get(normalized)
     channel_id = extract_channel_id(html)
-    videos = fetch_latest_from_feed(channel_id, limit=limit, no_shorts=no_shorts)
+    videos = fetch_latest_from_feed(channel_id, limit=limit, no_shorts=no_shorts, no_vods=no_vods)
     return {
         "input": channel_url_or_handle,
         "resolved_url": normalized,
@@ -111,6 +123,7 @@ def main():
     ap.add_argument("--limit", type=int, default=3, help="How many latest videos to return (default: 3)")
     ap.add_argument("--json", action="store_true", help="Print full JSON output")
     ap.add_argument("--no-shorts", action="store_true", help="Exclude Shorts URLs")
+    ap.add_argument("--no-vods", action="store_true", help="Exclude livestream VODs (isLiveContent=true)")
     args = ap.parse_args()
 
     if args.limit < 1 or args.limit > 20:
@@ -118,7 +131,12 @@ def main():
         sys.exit(2)
 
     try:
-        data = get_latest_videos(args.channel, limit=args.limit, no_shorts=args.no_shorts)
+        data = get_latest_videos(
+            args.channel,
+            limit=args.limit,
+            no_shorts=args.no_shorts,
+            no_vods=args.no_vods,
+        )
     except (urllib.error.URLError, urllib.error.HTTPError) as e:
         print(f"Network error: {e}", file=sys.stderr)
         sys.exit(1)