/YouTube_Channel_Monitor

A web application for monitoring and analyzing YouTube channels, using Python and Django.

Primary LanguagePythonMIT LicenseMIT

YouTube channel analyzer

Course project for EC601 at BU.

Web application

www.zhduan.com/youtube

Our codes

Our whole project codes are in folder zhduan. There are two ways you can reuse our codes.

  1. Run our website on your own computer.
  2. Use our YouTube API library.

Run our website

We use Django as our server framework. You can try our website on your localhost simply by the following steps.

  1. Make sure you have a python 3.x

  2. Install Django and Python Social Auth of Django

pip install Django
pip install social-auth-app-django
  1. Download our codes, open terminal in /zhduan, then
python manage.py runserver 0:80
or
python manage.py runserver

  1. You are all set! Open your browser and enter localhost(python manage.py runserver 0:80) or localhost:8000(python manage.py runserver), then you should see a UI of the website.

  2. Open /zhduan/youtube/ytbAPI.py, enter your Google API Key at line 7. For how to get a Google API Key, you can read the official doc, or create API key here.

  3. Now you can access most functions of the website on your localhost, except ones need OAuth 2 (for how to use Google OAuth 2, please see our docs/Google OAuth 2.md).

Use our YouTube API library

If you just want to try our YouTube API instead of the whole project, take the following steps. (Make sure you have Python 3.x)

  1. /zhduan/youtube/ytbAPI.py is a simple API to connect YouTube/Google. /zhduan/youtube/youtube_lib.py contains many functions which use ytbAPI.py to connect YouTube/Google. There are build-in comments in these files, and they are pretty ez to read.

  2. Install urllib3

pip install urllib3

  1. Download /zhduan/youtube/ytbAPI.py. Put it in the same folder with your own codes. Enter your Google API Key at line 7. For how to get a Google API Key, you can read the official doc, or create API key here.

  2. Import our library

from .ytbAPI import ytbAPI

  1. You are all set!

  2. Here is an example of getting top 10 viewed video in YouTube in the history. There are more in youtube_lib.py.

from .ytbAPI import ytbAPI

ytb0 = ytbAPI()
ytb0.scope('search')
ytb0.part('snippet')
ytb0.maxResults(10)
ytb0.order('viewCount')
ytb0.type('video')
ytb0.key()
response = ytb0.GET()

for i in response['items']:
    print(i['snippet']['title'])