Simple script for downloading Youtube comments without using the Youtube API. The output is in line delimited JSON.
- Python 2.7+
- requests
- lxml
- cssselect
The python packages can be installed with
pip install --user -r requirements.txt
# or
pip install --user requests lxml cssselect
usage: downloader.py [--help] [--youtubeid YOUTUBEID] [--output OUTPUT]
Download Youtube comments without using the Youtube API
optional arguments:
--help, -h Show this help message and exit
--youtubeid YOUTUBEID, -y YOUTUBEID
ID of Youtube video for which to download the comments
--output OUTPUT, -o OUTPUT
Output filename (output format is line delimited JSON)
Examples:
python downloader.py --youtubeid ScMzIvxBSi4 --output ScMzIvxBSi4.json
python downloader.py --youtubeid="ScMzIvxBSi4" --output="ScMzIvxBSi4.json"
# For Youtube IDs starting with '-' you must quote your arguments:
# https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4sGPBeBHag
python downloader.py --youtubeid="-4sGPBeBHag" --output="-4sGPBeBHag.json"
Create a text file list of video URL's
or video ID's
or both.
./process-list.sh videolist.txt