https://github.com/batteredbunny/youtube_scraper

Youtube metadata scraping library for golang
https://github.com/batteredbunny/youtube_scraper

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Youtube metadata scraping library for golang

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/batteredbunny/youtube_scraper
• Owner: BatteredBunny
• License: gpl-3.0
• Created: 2023-10-23T16:26:07.000Z (about 1 year ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2024-05-07T11:09:43.000Z (6 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-06-21T15:26:53.443Z (5 months ago)
• Language: Go
• Size: 136 KB
• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 2
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# youtube_scraper

Youtube metadata scraping library for golang

## Features

- Search videos

- View playlist videos

- Fetch basic info about channel and videos from videos and livestreams tabs

- Fetch videos from homepage

- Fetch video metadata

- Fetch video sidebar recommendations (video, playlist, radio)

- Fetch comments and its reply threads

- Fetch non DRM video media URLs

- Export pagination and scraper state to continue later

## Example

For more examples please look into the "examples" folder

```go

package main

import (

	"encoding/json"

	"github.com/BatteredBunny/youtube_scraper"

	"log"

)

func main() {

	c := scraper.NewChannelScraper("@TomScottGo")

	var printedChannel bool

	for {

		videos, err := c.NextVideosPage()

		if err != nil {

			log.Fatal(err)

		} else if len(videos) == 0 {

			break

		}

		if !printedChannel {

			if available, channel := c.GetChannelInfo(); available {

				bs, err := json.MarshalIndent(channel, "", "	")

				if err != nil {

					log.Fatal(err)

				}

				log.Println(string(bs))

			}

			printedChannel = true

		}

		for _, video := range videos {

			log.Println(video.VideoID, video.Title, video.Views)

		}

	}

}

```