utuby

YouTube's API is annoying to work with, and has lots of limitations. utuby is a simple script for downloading Youtube comments without using the Youtube API - No API rate limits. No restrictions. Extremely fast.

Source	Link
PyPI:	https://pypi.org/project/utuby/
Repository:	https://github.com/santhoshse7en/utuby/
Documentation:	https://santhoshse7en.github.io/utuby_doc/

Dependencies

• beautifulsoup4
• requests
• lxml
• cssselect
• vaderSentiment
• textblob
• pandas

Dependencies Installation

Use the package manager pip to install following

pip install -r requirements.txt

A Glance

Download it by clicking the green download button here on Github. You only need to parse specific YouTube URL as argument.

>>> from utuby.utuby import youtube

>>> url = 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjQFi-HP7po'

>>> youtube = youtube(url)

Directory of youtube class

>>> print(dir(youtube))

Examples for Extracting YouTube Channel Name

>>> youtube.channel_name

'Fully'

Examples Calculating Sentiment Scores for extracted YouTube Comments

>>> youtube.final_sentiment_scores

{'neu': 0.769, 'neg': 0.051, 'pos': 0.178, 'compound': 0.0}

Youtube Comments DataFrame

>>> youtube.youtube_comments_df.head()

Contributing

Pull requests are welcome. For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.

Please make sure to update tests as appropriate.

License

MIT