garf-youtube-data-api 0.0.7

description

garf for YouTube Data API

garf-youtube-data-api simplifies fetching data from YouTube Data API using SQL-like queries.

Prerequisites

• YouTube Data API enabled.
• API key to access to access YouTube Data API.

  Once generated expose API key as export GOOGLE_API_KEY=<YOUR_API_KEY>

Installation

pip install garf-youtube-data-api

Usage

Run as a library

from garf_youtube_data_api import report_fetcher
from garf_io import writer


# Specify query
query = 'SELECT id, snippet.title AS channel_name FROM channels'

# Fetch report
fetched_report = (
  report_fetcher.YouTubeDataApiReportFetcher()
  .fetch(query, id=[<YOUR_CHANNEL_ID_HERE>])
)

# Write report to console
console_writer = writer.create_writer('console')
console_writer.write(fetched_report, 'output')

Run via CLI

Install garf-executors package to run queries via CLI (pip install garf-executors).

garf <PATH_TO_QUERIES> --source youtube-data-api \
  --output <OUTPUT_TYPE> \
  --source.<SOURCE_PARAMETER=VALUE>

where:

• <PATH_TO_QUERIES> - local or remove files containing queries
• <OUTPUT_TYPE> - output supported by garf-io library.
• <SOURCE_PARAMETER=VALUE - key-value pairs to refine fetching, check available source parameters.

Available source parameters

name	values	comments
id	id of YouTube channel or videos	Multiple ids are supported, should be comma-separated
forHandle	YouTube channel handle	i.e. @myChannel
forUsername	YouTube channel name	i.e. myChannel
regionCode	ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code	i.e. US
chart	mostPopular	Gets most popular in regionCode, can be narrowed down with videoCategoriId