Youtube Scraper

This library provides with a class, Scraper, that will take most of the information present on a video page.

The project is still in beta and will be fully updated when I will have time. I will add a documentation later.

INSTALL

In order to install, just use pip install YoutubeScraper. 😄 All pre-requisites will be installed.

WARNING I guarantee it works only with python 3 or above. In the future, I will try to port it to all versions, if possible.

In order to start, one should invoke a Scraper object. Here listed are the variables one can use:

id: to identify the video. Without it, the Scraper will not work. By default, it's None.
driver: method to give the driver to work. As for today, only Chrome has been tested successfully.
scrape: either True or False. If false, no scraping will be implemented after construction. By default, True.
close_on_complete: either True or False. If True, the program will quit the webpage. If one has to implement the scraping of many pages, I suggest to put as False.
comments_to_scrape: maximum number of comments that will be scraped. If nothing is given, all visible will be scraped.

As of today, with the method as_dict(), results as dictionary can be obtained. Maybe I will implement more in the future.

Feel free to contact me, either for info or bugs. 😊

@ 2020, Leonardo Alchieri