YMIR - Youtube Metadata Information Retriever

Summery

The YouTube Metadata Information Retriever (YMIR) is a tool designed to browse and capture metadata of YouTube videos. It can retrieve metadata from a given list of YouTube videos, a YouTube channel name or a search query.
For each URL, it collects the video's title, description, number of comments, number of views, Likes and Dislikes, the date it was published, and its duration.

The tool also produces a separate file with comments metadata: for each comment, the crawler collect its content, viewer's rating, Likes, and more.

The tool was developed by Nehoray Carmi, as part of his Master's thesis at the Open University of Israel, supervised by Dr. Anat Lerner, Dr. Mireille Avigal, and Dr. Azaria Cohen.

To use the tool, please download the applet and run it from your Windows machine.

Prerequisites

YMIR was written for windows environment and was not tested under different operation systems

Installing

1. Download the compressed file
2. Extract
3. Double click YMIR.exe

YMIR was written for windows environment and was not tested under different operation systems 

Guide will be relesed in future installments

Built With

• C#
• YouTube API V3

Authors

Carmi Nehoray

Academic supervisors

Dr. Avigal Mireille

Dr. Cohen Azaria

Dr. Lerner Anat

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details

Acknowledgments

• Ihe Mathematics and Computer Science Department, The Open University of Israel
• Open Media and Information Lab (OMILab), The Open University of Israel
• The Google API team