vidcrawler 1.0.7

Video Crawler

vidcrawler

Crawls major videos sites like YouTube/Rumble/Bitchute/Brighteon for video content and outputs a json feed of all the videos that were found.

Platform Unit Tests

API

Command line

vidcrawler --input_crawl_json "fetch_list.json" --output_json "out_list.json"

Python

import json
from vidcrawler import crawl_video_sites

crawl_list = [
    ["channel name", "source", "channel_id"]
]
output = crawl_video_sites(crawl_list)
print(json.dumps(output))

"source" and "channel_id" are used to generate the video-platform-specific urls to fetch data. The "channel name" is echo'd back in the generated json feeds, but doesn't not affect the fetching process in any way.

Testing

Install vidcrawler and then the command vidcralwer_test will become available.

$ pip install vidcrawler
$ vidcrawler_test

Example input fetch_list.json

[
    [
        "Health Ranger Report",
        "brighteon",
        "hrreport"
    ],
    [
        "Sydney Watson",
        "youtube",
        "UCSFy-1JrpZf0tFlRZfo-Rvw"
    ],
    [
        "Computing Forever",
        "bitchute",
        "hybm74uihjkf"
    ],
    [
        "ThePeteSantilliShow",
        "rumble",
        "ThePeteSantilliShow"
    ],
    [
        "Macroaggressions",
        "odysee",
        "Macroaggressions"
    ]
]

Example Output:

[
  {
    "channel_name": "ThePeteSantilliShow",
    "title": "The damage this caused is now being totaled up",
    "date_published": "2022-05-17T05:00:11+00:00",
    "date_lastupdated": "2022-05-17T05:17:18.540084",
    "channel_url": "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXIJgqnII2ZOINSWNOGFThA",
    "source": "youtube.com",
    "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwqBudCzDrQ",
    "duration": 254,
    "description": "",
    "img_src": "https://i3.ytimg.com/vi/bwqBudCzDrQ/hqdefault.jpg",
    "iframe_src": "https://youtube.com/embed/bwqBudCzDrQ",
    "views": 1429
  },
  {
      ...
  }
]

Releases

• 1.0.6: Fixes Odysee scraper by including image/webp thumbnail format.
• 1.0.4: Fixes local_now() to be local timezone aware.
• 1.0.3: Bump
• 1.0.2: Updates testing
• 1.0.1: improves command line
• 1.0.0: Initial release