YTchannel

YouTube channel & video details extractor

Features

Retrieve:-

• Youtube Video downloader
• Youtube Channel details
• Youtube Video details

Requirements

You need to install requests module

pip install requests

Installation

pip install YTchannel

Importing

import YTchannel as yt

To Download Videos

download = yt.YTdownloader()

Initialize video extraction

try:
  download.startDownload(video_url=video_url,video_id = video_id)
except KeyError:
  #Invalid video id
except ConnectionError:
  #Connection error
except IndexError:
  #Can't find video
except:
  #Something went wrong

Get Result

result = download.getResults()

For Channel details

channel = yt.Channel()

Calling with a Id and API key

The first parameter must be the Channel id Check below example https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_channel_id here in this example the channel id is UC_channel_id

try:
  channel.startChannel(UC_channel_id,YOUR_API_KEY)
except KeyError:
  #Invalid channel id
except ConnectionError:
  #Connection error
except:
  #Something went wrong

Check if the request is success

result = channel.getChannel() #this will return all details in a dictionary
if result['result'] == 'OK':
  #No problem do your thing
else:
  #Something wrong like - no channel found or invalid api key
  #use result['code'] to get the error code or result['message'] to know the message

How to get details

print(result) #this will print all the details of a channel in a dictionary

For video details

video = yt.Video()

Calling with a Id and API key

The first parameter must be the video id or video_url Check below example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=video_id here in this example the video id is video_id

try:
  video.startVideo(video_url=video_url,video_id = video_id,YOUR_API_KEY)
except KeyError:
  #Invalid video id
except ConnectionError:
  #Connection error
except:
  #Something went wrong

Check if the request is success

resultVideo = video.getVideo() #this will return all details in a dictionary
if resultVideo['result'] == 'OK':
  #No problem do your thing
else:
  #Something wrong like - no video found or invalid api key
  #use resultVideo['code'] to get the error code or resultVideo['message'] to know the message

How to get details

print(resultVideo) #this will print all the details of a video in a dictionary

Any issues?

Create an issue on github

Contact me

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Happy coding