How to search among Youtube videos and extract their metadata using an easy interface.
Project description
An Easy Wrapper for YouTube Data API 3.0
This module provides you an easy interface to extract YouTube video metadata including title, comments, and stats. You
must setup your API KEY before being able to use this module. If you have your Google API key, you can skip this
section; otherwise, check out this video: Getting Started - Creating an API Key and Querying the API.
You must enter the API_KEY
when you want to initialize the youtube-easy-api
module. Check out the examples below.
For more detailed description, you can read this article: An Easy Python Wrapper for YouTube Data API 3.0
Install
The module requires the following libraries:
- google-api-python-client
- google-auth-oauthlib
The, it can be installed using pip:
pip3 install youtube-easy-api
Make sure the pip
is upgraded to the latest version.
Usage
The module currently support the methods below.
search_videos
get_metadata
You can search YouTube service by passing a search_keyword
to the search_videos
method. You will
receive an ordered lists of videos according to the search configs.
from youtube_easy_api.easy_wrapper import *
easy_wrapper = YoutubeEasyWrapper()
easy_wrapper.initialize(api_key=API_KEY)
results = easy_wrapper.search_videos(search_keyword='python', order='relevance')
order_id = 1
video_id = results[order_id]['video_id']
print(video_id)
'_uQrJ0TkZlc'
You can also extract the metadata of a video by passing its video_id
to the method get_metadata
.
from youtube_easy_api.easy_wrapper import *
easy_wrapper = YoutubeEasyWrapper()
easy_wrapper.initialize(api_key=API_KEY)
metadata = easy_wrapper.get_metadata(video_id='rdjnkb4ONWk')
print(metadata['title'])
'The Pink Panther Show Episode 59 - Slink Pink'
print(metadata['statistics']['likeCount'])
285373
And, that's pretty much it!
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