YouTube Video Scrapper API

Scrap YouTube Channels by search query and also scrape channel videos and return data in .csv file

Features

• Extract channel videos
• Extract channel data
• Object Oriented Code
• Descriptive Code

Environment Variables

To run this project, you will need to add the following environment variables to your .env file

API_KEY

Roadmap

• Add API_KEY to .env file

• Create instance of YouTube class

• Then call the related function with appropriate parameter

Code Reference

YouTube()

Parameter	Type	Description
API_KEY	string	Required. Your API key

extract_channel_videos()

Parameter	Type	Description
channel_id	str	Channel ID

Return	Type	Description
CSV file	file	.csv file with all videos of the channel

extract_videos_from_playlist()

Parameter	Type	Description
youtube_playlist	str	link of the youtube playlist

Return	Type	Description
CSV file	file	.csv file with all the videos in the playlist

extract_channels_by_keyword()

Parameter	Type	Description
search_query	str	Search query to be request

Return	Type	Description
	CSV file	file

extract_videos_by_keyword()

Parameter	Type	Description
search_query	str	Search query to be requested

Return	Type	Description
	CSV file	file

Lessons Learned

• Use of YouTube API
• Errors Exception handling
• Processing of data in batches
• Extracting data from .json
• Time handling using datetime
• Use of Regex
• Pandas DataFrame

Tech Stack

Client: Python, Jupyter Notebook

Server: YouTube API

Authors

• @jawad5311