youtubeinfo 0.1.3

Get YouTube data for analysis

Youtube-Info

Make YouTube queries and get text information from videos (including captions) ready for Jupyter Notebooks.

Installation

pip install youtubeinfo

USAGE

Create a search object

import youtubeinfo.core as yt
yt_search = yt.search("Test", developer_key=<YOUTUBE_DEVELOPER_KEY>)
yt_search.df  # DataFrame with YouTube info (likes, views, title, etc.)

Developer key

YOUTUBE_DEVELOPER_KEY has to be created following https://developers.google.com/youtube/registering_an_application?hl=en and can be set as environment variable

Developer key as environment variable

Linux: edit ~/.profile and add as last line of code

export YOUTUBE_DEVELOPER_KEY=<YOUTUBE_DEVELOPER_KEY>

Captions

To get captions, use the argument captions=True

import youtubeinfo.core as yt
# YOUTUBE_DEVELOPER_KEY is not necessary if was set as environment variable
yt_search = yt.search("Test", caption=True)  
yt_search.df  # A new column with captions "video_caption" will appear