youcos (youtube comment scraper) is a simple Python package for scraping YouTube videos and comments!
🍀 Lightweight YouTube v3 API Wrapper - Simply provide your YouTube v3 API Key, and youcos will take care of the rest! No additional code needed to configure API and process fetched JSON data.
🌏 Diverse Language Support - Search, scrape, and save videos & comments in different languges with youcos.
🚀 Fast Performance - Request and write approximately 4,000 comments, just within 1 minute.
📈 Minimized Quota Usage - Scrape comments without exhausting YouTube v3 quota through the built-in Selenium module with youcos!
- Scraping video titles and comments together
from youcos import scrape_youtube
KEY = 'YOUR_YOUTUBE_V3_API_KEY'
# Call YouTube v3 API to request the first 30 videos search results for 'stocks'
# and scrape each video's top __ comments
scrape_youtube('stocks', KEY)- Scraping video titles and comments separately
from youcos import scrape_videos, scrape_comments
KEY = 'YOUR_YOUTUBE_V3_API_KEY'
# Call YouTube v3 API to request the first 30 videos search results for 'stocks'
videos = scrape_videos("stocks", KEY)
# Filter videos to avoid re-scraping comments
filtered_videos = foo(videos)
# Scrape comments for filtered videos
scrape_comments(filtered_videos)
def foo(videos):
# function to filter videospip install youcos- Collected Data
| Video Data | Comment Data |
|---|---|
| URL | text |
| title | author |
| channel name | date |
| upload date | no. of replies |
| no. of likes | no. of upvotes |
| no. of dislikes | # of comments |
pip install --upgrade selenium google-api-python-clientCheck ___ for specific API documentation. This project was documented following the numpy docstring conventions, which are supported by common documentation tools like Sphynx while also maintaining readability.
Package author and maintainer is Seunggun Lee ([email protected]). Contributions and feedback are more than welcome.
- Author: Seunggun Lee
- Languages/Tools: Python3, Selenium