YouTube data scraper

To easily scrape any data from the youtube homepage, a youtube channel/user, search results, playlists, and a single video itself. Requires Python 3.6+

Installing

$ pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Help Menu

$ python3 main.py -h
Works with: YouTube Homepage, youtube search, channel/user, video, and playlists


Usage: main.py [OPTIONS]
	--link		 	YouTube link(s)
	--api	 		Google/YouTube API key
	--comments		Get comments from YouTube videos
				   [turning on will increase program run time]
	--subtitles		Get subtitles from YouTube videos
	--playlists		Get playlists of a YouTube Channel and show the playlist(s) a video belongs to
	--durationseconds	Get seconds of YouTube video duration (instead of ISO 8601 duration)
	--version       	List version release
	--help          	This help menu

Example:
	Web-Youtube.py --link "[your_youtube_link(s)]" --api [your_api_key] --comments --subtitles --playlists --durationseconds

Supported YouTube Link Styles:
	https://www.youtube.com/
	https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=valuetainment
	https://www.youtube.com/user/patrickbetdavid
	https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGX7nGXpz-CmO_Arg-cgJ7A
	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2UmjJ2zQkg&list=PLFa0bDwXvBlDGFtce9u__1sBj6fgi21BE
	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9dgZQsjR6s
	https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFa0bDwXvBlDGFtce9u__1sBj6fgi21BE

Sample Output

$ python3 main.py --link "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9dgZQsjR6s" --api 6d5f807e23db210bc254a28be2d6759a0f5f5d99 --comments

Navigating Youtube: |██████████████████████████████████████████████████| 100.0% 
Processing Videos: |██████████████████████████████████████████████████| 100.0% 
downloaded Art of War & Strategic Thinking for Entrepreneurs in 2020.csv

Get your YouTube API Key

Video tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TE66McLMMEw

Medium tutorial: (follow steps 1-3 no need to install the module) https://medium.com/greyatom/youtube-data-in-python-6147160c5833