this is a simple client for youtube data api v3
Project description
This is a youtube data api v3 wrapper which can be integrated into any python app basically in the web app which recommends youtube videos.
Prerequisites
Get the youtube data v3 api key from https://console.developers.google.com/apis/
Set environment variable API_KEY=’Your YoutubeDatav3 API key’
Installation
- for stable version
pip install pyytdata
- for developement
git clone https://github.com/Agent-Hellboy/YouTubeDataApi_Wrapper/
cd YouTubeDataApi_Wrapper
virtualenv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
using
from pyytdata.pyytdata import PyYtData
>>> obj=PyYtData('flask',1)
>>> vid=obj.get_videoinfo()
>>> vid
[<util.vidinfo.VidInfo object at 0x7ff971539e10>]
You can fire dir on this object to get the attribute and method of the object.
>>> dir(vid[0])
['_Info__API_KEY', '__class__', '__delattr__', '__dict__', '__dir__', '__doc__', '__eq__', '__format__', '__ge__', '__getattribute__', '__gt__', '__hash__', '__init__', '__init_subclass__', '__le__', '__lt__', '__module__', '__ne__', '__new__', '__reduce__', '__reduce_ex__', '__repr__', '__setattr__', '__sizeof__', '__str__', '__subclasshook__', '__weakref__', '_id', 'channel_info', 'get_description', 'get_image_url', 'get_link', 'get_publishedtime', 'get_title', 'keyword', 'maxlen', 'open_id', 'order', 'result', 'type', 'youtube']
To get the description of the video
>>> vid[0].get_description()
'Flask is a micro web framework written in Python. It is classified as a microframework because it does not require particular tools or libraries. Learn how to use it ...'
To get the title of the video.
>>> vid[0].get_title()
'Learn Flask for Python - Full Tutorial'
To get the link for the video which can we used in web app to open the link for the video.
>>> vid[0].get_link()
'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1RJmh_OqeA'
To get the title img of the video which can be rendered through HTML tag.
>>> vid[0].get_image_url()
'https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Z1RJmh_OqeA/mqdefault.jpg'
To get the chnlInfo object having methods which describes a channel.
>>> chnl=vid[0].channel_info()
To get the number of view cnt on this channel
>>> dir(chnl)
['__class__', '__delattr__', '__dict__', '__dir__', '__doc__', '__eq__', '__format__', '__ge__', '__getattribute__', '__gt__', '__hash__', '__init__', '__init_subclass__', '__le__', '__lt__', '__module__', '__ne__', '__new__', '__reduce__', '__reduce_ex__', '__repr__', '__setattr__', '__sizeof__', '__str__', '__subclasshook__', '__weakref__', 'id', 'result', 'total_subscriber', 'total_video', 'total_viewcnt', 'youtube']
To get the total view count of the channel.
>>> chnl.total_viewcnt()
'95246354'
To get the number of subscribers of the channel.
>>> chnl.total_subscriber()
'2170000'
To get number of video uploaded by this particular channel.
>>> chnl.total_video()
'1133'
General Info
Under Developement Please have a look at the Issue
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