https://github.com/ashleve/youtube_multi_video_comment_downloader
A simple python 3 script to download comments from many videos using youtube v3 API
https://github.com/ashleve/youtube_multi_video_comment_downloader
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A simple python 3 script to download comments from many videos using youtube v3 API
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/ashleve/youtube_multi_video_comment_downloader
- Owner: ashleve
- License: mit
- Created: 2018-11-16T18:12:18.000Z (almost 7 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2020-02-22T20:32:22.000Z (over 5 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-03-26T18:52:32.726Z (7 months ago)
- Topics: comment-downloader, harvester, python3, scraper, txt, youtube, youtube-api
- Language: Python
- Size: 679 KB
- Stars: 15
- Watchers: 1
- Forks: 8
- Open Issues: 3
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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# Youtube comment downloader
### A simple python 3 script to download comments from many videos using youtube v3 API
###### **This was just my attempt at learning some datamining. I wrote it to gather text data to train NLP algorithms.*
### Usage
- you need to get the API key from Google API console in order to use this script, you can get it here:
https://console.developers.google.com/apis/credential
- go to https://console.developers.google.com/apis/library/youtube.googleapis.com and click on 'enable' button if it appears
- the comments are downloaded from each video on url list file, each url should be in new line (see url_list.txt file)
- it can filter comments based on amount of likes.
- the output is single txt file.
- all non ascii characters are replaced with '?'
```
yt-comment-scraper.py [--key KEY] [--likes LIKES] [--input INPUT]
[--output OUTPUT] [--help]
Download youtube comments from many videos into txt file
required arguments:
--key KEY, -k KEY Required API key you can get here:
https://console.developers.google.com/apis/credentials
optional arguments:
--likes LIKES, -l LIKES
The amount of likes a comment needs to be saved
--input INPUT, -i INPUT
URL list file name
--output OUTPUT, -o OUTPUT
Output file name
--help, -h Help
```
