YouTube Community Scraper

A Python tool to scrape posts from YouTube community tabs.

Features

• Scrape posts from YouTube community tabs
• Download images from posts
• Collect post comments
• Multi-browser support (Chromium, Firefox, WebKit)
• Automatic browser installation
• Proxy support (HTTP/HTTPS with auth, SOCKS5 without auth)
• Progress saving
• Configurable output directory

Installation

Install using pip:

pip install post-archiver

Or install from source:

git clone https://github.com/sadadYes/post-archiver.git
cd post-archiver
pip install -e .

Requirements

• Python 3.7 or higher
• No manual browser installation needed - browsers are installed automatically when needed

Usage

usage: post-archiver [OPTIONS] url [amount]

YouTube Community Posts Scraper

positional arguments:
  url                   YouTube channel community URL
  amount                Amount of posts to get (default: max)

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -c, --get-comments    Get comments from posts (WARNING: This is slow) (default: False)
  -i, --get-images      Get images from posts (default: False)
  -d, --download-images
                        Download images (requires --get-images)
  -q IMAGE_QUALITY, --image-quality IMAGE_QUALITY
                        Image quality: src, sd, or all (default: all)
  --proxy PROXY         Proxy file or single proxy string
  -o OUTPUT, --output OUTPUT
                        Output directory (default: current directory)
  -v, --verbose         Show basic progress information
  -t, --trace          Show detailed debug information
  --browser {chromium,firefox,webkit}
                        Browser to use (default: chromium)
  --version            show program's version number and exit
  --member-only         Only get membership-only posts (requires --cookies)
  --browser-cookies {chrome,firefox,edge,opera}
                        Get cookies from browser (requires browser-cookie3)

Proxy format:
  Single proxy: <scheme>://<username>:<password>@<host>:<port>
  Proxy file: One proxy per line using the same format
  Supported schemes: http, https
  Note: SOCKS5 proxies are supported but without authentication

Amount:
  Specify number of posts to scrape (default: max)
  Use 'max' or any number <= 0 to scrape all posts

Examples:
  post-archiver https://www.youtube.com/@channel/posts
  post-archiver https://www.youtube.com/@channel/posts 50
  post-archiver -c -i -d -q src https://www.youtube.com/@channel/posts max
  post-archiver --browser firefox https://www.youtube.com/@channel/posts
  post-archiver --proxy proxies.txt https://www.youtube.com/@channel/posts 100
  post-archiver --proxy http://username:password@host:port https://www.youtube.com/@channel/posts
  post-archiver --proxy https://username:password@host:port https://www.youtube.com/@channel/posts
  post-archiver --proxy socks5://host:port https://www.youtube.com/@channel/posts

Browser Support

The scraper supports three browser engines:

• Chromium (default)
• Firefox
• WebKit

The appropriate browser will be automatically installed when first used. You can specify which browser to use with the --browser option.

Proxy Support

The scraper supports the following proxy types:

• HTTP proxies with authentication
• HTTPS proxies with authentication
• SOCKS5 proxies (without authentication)

Note: SOCKS5 proxies with authentication are not supported due to limitations in the underlying browser automation.

Logging

Two levels of logging are available:

• --verbose (-v): Shows basic progress information
• --trace (-t): Shows detailed debug information including browser console messages

License

MIT License