YTchannel 0.0.5

YouTube channel details extractor

YTchannel

YouTube channel details extractor

Features

Retrieve:-

• Youtube Channel name
• Icon, Channel art
• Subs if not hidden
• List no. of videos

Requirements

You need to install requests module

pip install requests

Installation

pip install YTchannel

Importing

from YTchannel.YTchannel import YTchannel

Creating an Object

yt = YTchannel()

Calling with a Id and API key

The first parameter must be the Channel id Check below example https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_channel_id here in this example the channel id is UC_channel_id

try:
  yt.start(UC_channel_id,YOUR_API_KEY)
except KeyError:
  #Invalid channel id
except ConnectionError:
  #Connection error
except:
  #Something went wrong

Check if the request is success

result = yt.getResult() #this will return all details in a dictionary
if result['result'] == 'OK':
  #No problem do your thing
else:
  #Something wrong like - no channel found or invalid api key
  #use result['code'] to get the error code or result['message'] to know the message

How to get details

title = result['title'] #or use title = yt.title
des = result['des'] #or use des = yt.des
icon = result['icon'] #or use icon = yt.icon
subs = result['subs'] #or use subs = yt.subs
channelArt = result['channelArt'] #or use channelArt = yt.channelArt
videos = result['videos'] #or use videos = yt.videos
subhidden = result['subs_hidden'] #or use subhidden = yt.subhidden
country = result['country'] #or use country = yt.country

Any issues?

Create an issue on github

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Happy coding