youtube-extract 1.2.2

Extract metadata for all videos from a youtube channel into a csv or xlsx file.

youtube_extract

Extracts metadata for all videos from a youtube channel and exports it into a csv or xlsx file.

Be sure to read the csv file using the tab character \t as field separator in your spreadsheet software of choice.

It's quite slow and unpredictable, expect ~400 seconds for extracting all videos metadata from a channel containing 400 videos.

Fields extracted

Field	Description
author	Channel Name
channel_url	Channel URL
title	Video Title
webpage_url	Video URL
view_count	View Count
like_count	Like Count
dislike_count	Dislike Count
average_rating	Rating
duration	Duration in seconds
upload_date	Upload Date in YYYYMMDD Format
tags	Tags
categories	Categories
description	Description
thumbnail	Thumbnail URL
best_format	Highest Format Available
filesize_bytes	Filesize in bytes

Requirements

• youtube-dl
• pandas
• openpyxl

Installation

pip install youtube_extract

If you are an Archlinux user, you can install the AUR package youtube_extract-git.

Installation of the virtualenv (with pipenv)

pipenv install

Usage

If installed :

youtube_extract CHANNEL_URL
# or xlsx format
youtube_extract CHANNEL_URL -e xlsx

Otherwise, in the directory containing the source code :

python youtube_extract CHANNEL_URL
# or xlsx format
python youtube_extract CHANNEL_URL -e xlsx

Help

python youtube_extract.py -h

usage: youtube_extract [-h] [--debug] [-e EXPORT_FORMAT] [channel_url]

Extract metadata for all videos from a youtube channel into a csv or xlsx
file.

positional arguments:
  channel_url           Youtube channel url.

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --debug               Display debugging information.
  -e EXPORT_FORMAT, --export_format EXPORT_FORMAT
                        Export format (csv or xlsx). Default : csv