Django Youtube Scrapper

About

This is a demo project for Scrapping Youtube channel.

It was made using Python 3.8 + Django 4 and database is MySQL.

[Optional] Install virtual environment:

$ python -m virtualenv env

[Optional] Activate virtual environment:

On macOS and Linux:

$ source env/bin/activate

On Windows:

$ .\env\Scripts\activate

Install dependencies:

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

Create .env file into root directory or the project and set variables with appropriate value.

You can run the application from the command line with manage.py. Go to the root folder of the application.

Run migrations:

$ python manage.py migrate

Scrap channel data:

$ python manage.py channel_scrapper

Run server on port 8000:

$ python manage.py runserver 8000

Go to the web browser and visit http://localhost:8000/api/videos

Filter by tag name:

http://localhost:8000/api/videos?tags=python

Activate virtual environment:

On macOS and Linux:

$ source env/bin/activate

On Windows:

$ .\env\Scripts\activate

Running tests:

$ python manage.py test utube