utuby

YouTube's API is annoying to work with, and has lots of limitations. utuby is a simple script for downloading Youtube comments without using the Youtube API - No API rate limits. No restrictions. Extremely fast.

Source	Link
PyPI:	https://pypi.org/project/utuby/
Repository:	https://github.com/santhoshse7en/utuby/
Documentation:	https://santhoshse7en.github.io/utuby_doc/

Dependencies

beautifulsoup4
requests
lxml
cssselect
vaderSentiment
textblob
pandas

Dependencies Installation

Use the package manager pip to install following

pip install -r requirements.txt

A Glance

Download it by clicking the green download button here on Github. You only need to parse specific YouTube URL as argument.

>>> from utuby.utuby import youtube

>>> url = 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjQFi-HP7po'

>>> youtube = youtube(url)

Directory of youtube class

>>> print(dir(youtube))

Examples for Extracting YouTube Channel Name

>>> youtube.channel_name

'Fully'

Examples Calculating Sentiment Scores for extracted YouTube Comments

>>> youtube.final_sentiment_scores

{'neu': 0.769, 'neg': 0.051, 'pos': 0.178, 'compound': 0.0}

Youtube Comments DataFrame

>>> youtube.youtube_comments_df.head()

Contributing

Pull requests are welcome. For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.

Please make sure to update tests as appropriate.

License