YSL-H-isaac23 1.5.2.1

A package for automated liking of Active YouTube Streams programmatically using selenium and requests.

Youtube-stream-liker

YouTube Stream Liker (YSL) is a package developed for automated liking of Active YouTube streams by the channels provided by the user.

Note(Project Status)

The project is now done with the main goal it aimed to reach. It is now currently on the phase of creating a GUI, as I have been planning to turn this as a desktop application, although I may not have enough time to do it in the coming weeks because of school and other side projects that I want to do. As of now, the program is already complete based on what I had originally planned, though I might pick this up again in the future if I want to learn about GUIs.

Supported Python Versions

-Python 3.7 is fully supported and tested. This library may work for earlier versions of Python3 and later versions, but I do not currently run tests on those versions.

Third Party Libraries and Dependencies

The following libraries will be installed when you install the YSL library:

• Selenium
• Requests
• mysql-connector-python

For development, you will also need the following installed:

• Firefox
• Geckodriver

How is it used?

Before making the code:

-Put the channel IDs and the channel name(or the owner's name, it's up to you) on a text file(a sample text file with the channel IDs is available above). The format of is "[Channel ID] - [Name]".(You have to do it that way, deal with it lmao)

Example:

UCdn5BQ06XqgXoAxIhbqw5Rg - Fubuki
UCQ0UDLQCjY0rmuxCDE38FGg - Matsuri
UCFTLzh12_nrtzqBPsTCqenA - Aki
UCD8HOxPs4Xvsm8H0ZxXGiBw - Mel
UC1CfXB_kRs3C-zaeTG3oGyg - Haato

Note:

-You also need to login into Google using the regular firefox browser. Simply open firefox after installing, login to google, and just make sure you don't log out.

1. Installation

Install this library in a virtualenv using pip. virtualenv is a tool to create isolated Python environments. The basic problem it addresses is one of dependencies and versions, and indirectly permissions.

With virtualenv, it's possible to install this library without needing system install permissions, and without clashing with the installed system dependencies.

pip install virtualenv
virtualenv <your-env>
<your-env>\Scripts\activate
<your-env>\Scripts\pip.exe install YSL-H-isaac23

2.

Create an instance of the class StreamLiker, and pass in the path for the text file for the channel ids of the channels you want to check for active streams.

Example:

from ysl.YSL import StreamLiker

c_id = 'C:/Users/isaac/channel_ids.txt'

# Create an instance of the StreamLiker class 
sl = StreamLiker(c_id)

3.

To start liking active streams, we first have to check if the channels that we supplied are currently streaming. To check, we can call the is_streaming() method.

Example:

sl.is_streaming()

This will store the channel ids of the currently streaming channels on a dictionary.

4.

Now that we have the video links, we will now like them using a selenium webdriver. We first need to configure the selenium webdriver by passing in the path for the geckodriver. And then pass in the firefox profile. (This can help you find your profile location.)

Example:

options = ['--headless', '--mute-audio'] # the "options" variable can be passed as the second argument and is optional (No pun intended.)
firefox_profile = 'C:/Users/isaac/AppData/Roaming/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles/xxxxxxxx.default-release'
sl.config_driver(path, firefox_profile, options)

The selenium webdriver can be configured so that the sound is muted.

Example:

firefox_profile = 'C:/Users/isaac/AppData/Roaming/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles/xxxxxxxx.default-release'
sl.config_driver(path, firefox_profile, muted_sound=True)

In case the programmer wants to add more modifications to the selenium webdriver, you can do so by accessing the driver object at self.driver

After configuring the driver, we can now start liking videos. Simply call the like_videos method.

Example:

sl.like_videos()

And with that, the streams of the youtubers that you want to like will now be done automatically. Finally, the user should end the session of the driver.

sl.driver_quit()

Full Code:

from ysl.YSL import StreamLiker

c_id = 'C:/Users/isaac/channel_ids.txt'
sl = StreamLiker(c_id)

path = 'C:/Program Files (x86)/geckodriver.exe'
firefox_profile = 'C:/Users/isaac/AppData/Roaming/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles/xxxxxxxx.default-release'
sl.is_streaming()
sl.config_driver(path, firefox_profile)
sl.like_videos()
sl.driver_quit()

5. (OPTIONAL)

For math nerds(I'm not one of them but I certainly will try to become one), there are additional methods that will let you use some data from the process of liking the video for the programmer to analyze. The data that are collected by the methods above are the number of active streams and number of streams that you liked for a single execution of the program.

The additional methods that are within the program is get_start_time(), get_end_time(), append_data_on_file(), and append_data_on_db(). get_start_time and get_end_time will, as their name says, get the starting time and the ending time of the liking process. The recommended placement of get_start_time is before the get_channels method, and the placement for the get_end_time is after the like_videos method.

Example:

from ysl.YSL import StreamLiker

c_id = 'C:/Users/isaac/channel_ids.txt'
sl = StreamLiker(c_id)

sl.get_start_time()
sl.is_streaming()
sl.config_driver('C:/Program Files (x86)/geckodriver.exe')
sl.like_videos()
sl.get_end_time()
sl.driver_quit()

append_data_on_file takes all the data collected by the program and then stores it in a csv file. Put the directory in which you would want your files to be saved to as an argument.

Note: Use forward slashes.

Example:

sl.append_data_on_file("C:/Users/Stream data")

append_data_on_db takes all the data collected by the program and then stores it in your local database through mysql. The method needs the following arguments: user, host, password, database, table_name

Example:

user = 'root'
host = 'localhost'
passwd = 'root'
database = 'YSL'
table_name = 'stream_data'
sl.append_data_on_db(user=user, host=host, passwd=passwd, database=database, table_name=table_name)

Full Code

from ysl.YSL import StreamLiker

user = 'root'
host = 'localhost'
db_passwd = 'baqua'
db = 'YSL'
table_name = 'stream_data'
my_dir = 'C:/Users/Stream data'

sl = StreamLiker('C:/Users/isaac/channel_ids.txt')
sl.get_start_time()
sl.is_streaming()
sl.config_driver('C:/Program Files (x86)/geckodriver.exe')
sl.like_videos()
sl.get_end_time()
sl.append_data_on_file(my_dir)
sl.append_data_on_db(user, host, db_passwd, db, table_name)
sl.driver_quit()

Contribution

Any ideas related to a youtube video will be entertained and implemented in the code if decided, just put the ideas on an issue. For the code, I will be doing it myself but others can suggest ideas on how to do it. Others can also suggest ideas on how a certain part of the code can be done a lot more efficient, put those also on the issues tab.

License

MIT

Change Log

1.0.0(02/22/21)

-First Release

1.0.1(02/22/21)

-Changed the description of the package.

1.1.0(02/22/21)

-StreamLiker method append_data_on_db() along with start_liking_with_data() now accepts the table_name of a database.

1.1.3(02/23/21)

-YSL class now accessible.

1.1.4(02/23/21)

-Update package description.

1.2.0(02/25/21)

-Driver configuration functionality added.

1.2.1(02/25/21)

-Directory for stream data is now passed as a required argument in append_data_on_file method.

1.3(02/25/21)

-Directory for video links text file is now required.

-Fix the "XPATH not found" prompt while users get the stream links.

1.3.1(02/26/21)

-Minor patches.

1.4(02/26/21)

-Checking if videos are liked are now done on the selenium webdriver.

-Quits drivers if an error happens.

1.4.1(02/27/21)

-Errors now use assert statements instead of print statements.

-Channels that are streaming will now be shown on the console.

1.4.2(02/07/21)

-Rearranged code for faster program execution.

-Updated program description.

1.5(03/24/21)

-"This browser or app may not be secure" google login is now fixed.

1.5.1(03/25/21)

-Remove unnecessary imports and comments.

-Added additional data for stream data.

1.5.2(03/28/21)

-Add firefox profile as argument for config_driver function

1.5.2.1 (04/02/21)

-Muting audio on selenium webdriver now possible.

-Selenium webdriver will not be configures when there are no active streams available, therefore shortening the runtime.