youcos 0.0.1.dev1

YOUCOS is a simple Python package for scraping YouTube videos and comments

youcos

youcos (youtube comment scraper) is a simple Python package for scraping YouTube comments!

:page_facing_up: save the following data into a csv file: each row corresponds to a comment

• Url
• Title
• Channel name
• No. of views
• Date Uploaded
• No. of likes
• No. of dislikes
• Comment Text
• Comment Author
• Comment Date
• No. of replies to comment
• No. of upvotes for comments

Demo

There are two main ways to scrape comments:

1. Scraping video titles and comments together

from youcos import scrape_youtube

KEY = 'YOUR_YOUTUBE_V3_API_KEY'

scrape_youtube('stocks', KEY)

2. Scraping video titles and comments separately If you call youcos often on the same query, you may wish to avoid duplicating data by re-scraping comments. By calling scrape video and scrape_comments separately, you can filter and choose the particular videos to scrape comments from!

from youcos import scrape_videos, scrape_comments

KEY = 'YOUR_YOUTUBE_V3_API_KEY'

videos = scrape_videos("stocks", KEY)

filtered_videos = foo(videos)

scrape_comments(filtered_videos)

def foo(videos):
    # function to filter videos

Installation

Install with pip: pip install youcos

Dependencies

• Selenium

Documentation

Check ___ for specific API documentation. This project was documented following the numpy docstring conventions, which are supported by common documentation tools like Sphynx while also maintaining readability.

To Do

Functionalities

• search based on different filters
• selenium dependency support for all drivers
• choose to filter comments based on relevancy & top comments
• headless browser scraping (option)
• maximum number of videos to scrape
• maximum number of comments to scrape
• method to skip video authentication

Deployment

• use Sphynx to build documentation

Credits

• Author: Seunggun Leez`
• Languages/Tools: Python3, Selenium