YouTube Scraper
This script uses the YouTube Data API to download and generate a CSV of YouTube video data
Setup
- Make sure you have the latest version of Python installed https://www.python.org/downloads/
- Make sure you have the latest version of Python-Poetry installed https://python-poetry.org/docs/
- Inside the repo's root directory run
poetry install - You must acquire a YouTube Data API key. Here if you need help
- Run the command
poetry run youtube-scraper -api_key API_KEY
Usage
- Generate a CSV of trending videos:
poetry run youtube-scraper trending
This command will create a new file if none exists and populates it with trending videos from today. The same script can be run again the following day to add that day's videos to the list. There are 2 optional flags -o and -n which represent the output file, and the number of videos to add respectively.
- Generate a CSV of videos based on an existing CSV:
poetry run youtube-scraper csv -i /path/to/file.csv
This command will generate a new CSV file based on the id column of an existing CSV. This is useful if you need to update your data, or add new data columns. There is an optional flag -o to specify the output file.