youtuber 0.1.4

Support tools including crawler, video editing, YouTube API, etc.

Python Package: YouTuber

Contains several useful features that can be used for youtube related projects. This package is intended to provide useful features for video editing, including crawling through the YouTube Data API v3 and Selenium.

Installation

pip install youtuber

from youtuber import AutoCrawler
DEVELOPER_KEY = "enter_your_dev_api_key"               # Enter your DEV API KEY at https://console.cloud.google.com/apis/api/youtube.googleapis.com/credentials?project=sincere-canyon-278402
CHOROME_PATH = r'C:\Program Files\chromedriver.exe'    # Enter path of 'chromdriver.exe' 

auto = AutoCrawler(DEVELOPER_KEY, CHOROME_PATH)
search_keyword = 'chatGPT'      # Youtube Search Keyword
max_link_len = 2                # How many videos you target to crawl?
max_comment_pg_len = 2          # How many comment pages you target to crawl?
save_path = './enter/any/path/result.csv'

df = auto.run(search_keyword, max_link_len, max_comment_pg_len, save_path)

Tutorial

1. Main tutorial: https://github.com/DSDanielPark/youtuber/blob/main/doc/tutorial.ipynb
2. Sub tutorial folder: Tutorials for each function can be found in this folder.

Features

1. YoutubeAPI

Retrieve YouTube search results.
You can get your 'Youtube Data API v3' key in here, and you can find some guide in here.

from youtuber import YoutubeAPI

DEVELOPER_KEY = "enter_your_api_key"
youtuber_v3 = YoutubeAPI(DEVELOPER_KEY)
links = youtuber_v3.get_links('chatGPT', 3) #YouTube Search Keyword = 'chatGPT', return 3 links.

links
['https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxxxx',
 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxxxx',
 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxxxx']

2. YoutubeCrawler

Retrieve comment data.

from youtuber import YoutubeCrawler

chrome_driver = r'C:\Program Files\chromedriver.exe'
youtuber_crawl = YoutubeCrawler(chrome_driver)
df = youtuber_crawl.get_comment_df(links, 1) #if you enter 1, only 1 page of comments will be searched.

df #You can get pd.DataFrame object.

References

[1] YouTube Data API v3: https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/getting-started?hl=ko
[2] Selenium python: https://selenium-python.readthedocs.io/

Important Warning: All legal responsibilities associated with the use of the package lie with the user.

The Python package "youtuber" provides code for Python users to easily access data through the YouTube Data API v3 and Selenium. All licenses follow those of the API and dependent packages, and all responsibility for handling data and using the package lies with the user. There is no monetary compensation received for the use of this code, and it should be noted that there is no liability for the use of the code.