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Youtube-Info

Make YouTube queries and get information from videos (including captions, likes, titles, etc.) ready for Jupyter Notebooks.

Installation

pip install youtubeinfo

USAGE

Create a search object

import youtubeinfo.core as yt
yt_search = yt.search("Test", developer_key=<YOUTUBE_DEVELOPER_KEY>)
yt_search.df  # DataFrame with YouTube infos (likes, views, title, etc.)

Output example:

videoId publishedAt channelId title … viewCount likeCount dislikeCount favoriteCount commentCount
abcde1234 2021-06-01 10:00:00+00:00 abcde1234abc Video title example 1 … 100000 6000 30 0 200
abcde1235 2021-06-01 11:00:00+00:00 abcde1234abc Video title example 2 … 200000 5000 40 1 210
abcde1236 2021-06-01 12:00:00+00:00 abcde1234abd Video title example 3 … 100000 4000 50 0 150
… … … … … … … … … …

Developer key

YOUTUBE_DEVELOPER_KEY has to be created following https://developers.google.com/youtube/registering_an_application?hl=en and can be set as environment variable

Developer key as environment variable

Linux: edit ~/.profile and add as last line of code

export YOUTUBE_DEVELOPER_KEY=<YOUTUBE_DEVELOPER_KEY>

Captions

To get captions, use the argument captions=True

import youtubeinfo.core as yt
# YOUTUBE_DEVELOPER_KEY is not necessary if was set as environment variable
yt_search = yt.search("Test", caption=True)
yt_search.df  # A new column with captions "video_caption" will appear

Output example:

videoId publishedAt channelId title … commentCount video_caption
abcde1234 2021-06-01 10:00:00+00:00 abcde1234abc Video title example 1 … 200 What they say; words and more words; thanks for watching
abcde1235 2021-06-01 11:00:00+00:00 abcde1234abc Video title example 2 … 210 None
abcde1236 2021-06-01 12:00:00+00:00 abcde1234abd Video title example 3 … 150 Words and more words and more words; thanks for watching
… … … … … … …