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Clark University, Package for YouTube crawler and cleaning data

Project description

clarku-youtube-crawler

Clark University YouTube crawler and JSON decoder for YouTube json. Please read documentation in DOCS

Installing

To install,

pip install clarku-youtube-crawler

The crawler needs multiple other packages to function. If missing requirements (I already include all dependencies so it shouldn't happen), download requirements.txt . Navigate to the folder where it contains requirements.txt and run

pip install -r requirements.txt

Example usage

To initialize,

# your_script.py
import clarku_youtube_crawler as cu

test = cu.RawCrawler()
test.__build__()
test.crawl("searchkey",start_date=14, start_month=12, start_year=2020, day_count=2)
test.crawl_videos_in_list(comment_page_count=1)
test.merge_all()

channel = cu.ChannelCrawler()
channel.__build__()
channel.setup_channel(subscriber_cutoff=1000, keyword="")
channel.crawl()
channel.crawl_videos_in_list(comment_page_count=1)
channel.merge_all()

jsonn = cu.JSONDecoder()
jsonn.load_json("YouTube_RAW_20201221/FINAL_raw_merged.json")

Changelog

Version 0.0.1->0.0.3

This is beta without testing since python packaging is a pain. Please don't install these versions.

Version 0.0.5

Finally figured out testing. It works okay. More documentation to come.

Version 0.0.6

Stable release only for RawCrawler feature

Version 1.0.0 Version 1.0.1

I think this might be our first full stable release.

Version 1.0.1.dev Pre-release

Added different file types for ChannelCrawler. Added documentation

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