/YouTube-comment-viewer

A tool to allow you to easily view all the comments, including precise timestamps, for a given YouTube video

Primary LanguagePHP

--- LEGAL STUFF ---

My code (index.php) is provided under a Creative Commons Attribution license
(for details please see: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). In
summary, you are free to use the code for any purpose as long as you remember
to mention my name (Torben Sko) at some point. Also please note that my code
is provided AS IS with NO WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING THE WARRANTY OF
DESIGN, MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Also provided in this Git repository is the Zend Gdata library found within
the 'library' folder. It is provided under a New BSD licence (for details,
please see: http://framework.zend.com/license/new-bsd).

--- PURPOSE ---

This code allows you to view all the comments for a particular YouTube video.
Unlike the comments page on YouTube, this system provides precise tiemstamps
for each comment. This code was written to help me examine whether the public
reaction to certain videos changed over time

--- SETTING UP ---

1. To run the script locally, move the repo files into a folder served up by
your local server, such as /Library/WebServer/Documents on OSX

2. Lauch your web browser and navigate to the index.php via your local server
(i.e. make sure your URL starts with "http:" not "file:"). For example, if
placed in a folder called youtube_fetch, navigate to:
http://localhost/youtube_fetch

3. Once open the use of the system should be pretty obvious