youcos 0.0.3

youcos is a simple Python package for collecting YouTube videos and comments

youcos

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

:four_leaf_clover: Lightweight YouTube v3 API Wrapper - Simply provide your YouTube v3 API Key, and youcos will take care of the rest! No additional code needed to configure API and process fetched JSON data.

:earth_asia: Diverse Language Support - Search, scrape, and save videos & comments in different languges with youcos.

:rocket: Fast Performance - Request and write approximately 4,000 comments, just within 1 minute.

:chart_with_upwards_trend: Minimized Quota Usage - Scrape comments without exhausting YouTube v3 quota through the built-in Selenium module with youcos!

Table of Contents

• Demo

• Installation

• Features

• Dependencies

• Documentation

• Credits

• To Do

Demo

1. Scraping video titles and comments together

from youcos import scrape_youtube

KEY = 'YOUR_YOUTUBE_V3_API_KEY'

# Call YouTube v3 API to request the first 30 videos search results for 'stocks'
# and scrape each video's top __ comments
scrape_youtube('stocks', KEY)

2. Scraping video titles and comments separately

from youcos import scrape_videos, scrape_comments

KEY = 'YOUR_YOUTUBE_V3_API_KEY'

# Call YouTube v3 API to request the first 30 videos search results for 'stocks'
videos = scrape_videos("stocks", KEY)

# Filter videos to avoid re-scraping comments
filtered_videos = foo(videos)

# Scrape comments for filtered videos
scrape_comments(filtered_videos)

def foo(videos):
    # function to filter videos

Installation

pip install youcos

Features

• Collected Data | Video Data | Comment Data | | ----------- | ----------- | | URL | text | | title | author | | channel name| date | | upload date | no. of replies| | no. of likes| no. of upvotes| | no. of dislikes| - |

Dependencies

• Selenium
• google-api-python-client

pip install --upgrade selenium google-api-python-client

## Documentation
Check ___ for specific API documentation. This project was documented following the [numpy docstring conventions](https://github.com/numpy/numpy/blob/master/doc/HOWTO_DOCUMENT.rst.txt),
which are supported by common documentation tools like [Sphynx](https://www.sphinx-doc.org/) while also maintaining readability.

## Contributing
Package author and maintainer is Seunggun Lee ([[e-mail]](mailto:[e-mail])).
Contributions and feedback are more than welcome.

## Credits
- Author: Seunggun Lee
- Languages/Tools: Python3, [Selenium](https://www.selenium.dev/)