yt-metadata-verifier 1.0.1

CLI tool to fetch and verify YouTube video metadata

🎥 YouTube Metadata Verifier CLI

A lightweight Python CLI tool to verify and correct YouTube video metadata, such as title and channel information. Useful for digital archiving, content validation, or simply cleaning up saved URLs.

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✨ Features

• ✅ Fetch accurate video titles and channel names from YouTube
• ✅ Compare or correct existing metadata
• ✅ Outputs valid and error entries to separate JSON files
• ✅ Clean CLI with --version, --verbose, and --help support
• ✅ Packaged with Poetry

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📦 Installation

1. Clone the repo

git clone https://github.com/taj54/youtube-metadata-verifier.git
cd youtube-metadata-verifier

2. Install dependencies

poetry install

3. Use the CLI

poetry run yt-verify --help

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⚙️ Usage

Basic Command

poetry run yt-verify --json data/videos.json

Full Example

poetry run yt-verify   --json data/videos.json   --output data/corrected.json   --errors data/errors.json   --verbose

Available Options

Option	Description
--json	Path to input JSON file with video URLs
--output	File to save corrected metadata (default: corrected.json)
--errors	File to save errors (default: errors.json)
--verbose	Enable detailed logging
--version	Show current CLI version

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📄 Input Format

Your input file should be a JSON array with at least a url field for each video:

[
  {
    "url": "ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WH0lsTxcw4w"
  }
]

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📝 Output Example

[
  {
    "title": "Midnight Coding Session 💻 Coding Lofi Music To Make You Deep Focus On You Work 💻 Programming Lofi",
    "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WH0lsTxcw4w",
    "duration": "11:11:55",
    "tags": [
      "Dream lofi",
      "Dream lofi channel",
      "Study",
      "Sleep",
      "study music",
      "lofi hip hop",
      "chill lofi",
      "lofi music",
      "lofi study",
      "lofi sleep",
      "sleep music",
      "Deep Sleeping Music",
      "chill music",
      "lofi studying",
      "studying lofi",
      "lofi",
      "dreamy lofi",
      "lofi girl",
      "stop overthinking",
      "sleep lofi",
      "lofi sleep music",
      "lofi live",
      "sleeping music for deep sleeping",
      "lo fi",
      "Midnight Coding Session",
      "Coding Lofi Music",
      "Deep Focus On You Work",
      "Programming Lofi",
      "lofi corgi",
      "corgi lofi",
      "lofi programming",
      "programming lofi"
    ],
    "channel": {
      "name": "Dreamy Lofi",
      "url": "https://www.youtube.com/@Mellow_lofi"
    }
  }
]

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🐛 Error Handling

Any failed lookups are saved to the --errors file:

[
  {
    "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=invalid",
    "error": "Video unavailable"
  }
]

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🧪 Dev Tips

Run locally

python src/yt_metadata_verifier/cli.py --json data/videos.json

Export as CLI tool

poetry build
pip install dist/yt_metadata_verifier-<version>.whl
yt-verify --version

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📄 License

MIT © taj

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