https://github.com/egbertbouman/youtube-comment-downloader

Simple script for downloading Youtube comments without using the Youtube API
https://github.com/egbertbouman/youtube-comment-downloader

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Simple script for downloading Youtube comments without using the Youtube API

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/egbertbouman/youtube-comment-downloader
• Owner: egbertbouman
• License: mit
• Created: 2015-08-31T17:09:54.000Z (over 9 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2024-08-10T22:01:17.000Z (5 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-01-01T23:06:24.459Z (9 days ago)
• Topics: data-science, data-scraper, python, youtube, youtube-comments
• Language: Python
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• Size: 60.5 KB
• Stars: 942
• Watchers: 25
• Forks: 233
• Open Issues: 4
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# youtube-comment-downloader

Simple script for downloading Youtube comments without using the Youtube API. The output is in line delimited JSON.

### Installation

Preferably inside a [python virtual environment](https://virtualenv.pypa.io/en/latest/) install this package via:

```

pip install youtube-comment-downloader

```

Or directly from the GitHub repository:

```

pip install https://github.com/egbertbouman/youtube-comment-downloader/archive/master.zip

```

### Usage as command-line interface

```

$ youtube-comment-downloader --help

usage: youtube-comment-downloader [--help] [--youtubeid YOUTUBEID] [--url URL] [--output OUTPUT] [--limit LIMIT] [--language LANGUAGE] [--sort SORT]

Download Youtube comments without using the Youtube API

optional arguments:

  --help, -h                             Show this help message and exit

  --youtubeid YOUTUBEID, -y YOUTUBEID    ID of Youtube video for which to download the comments

  --url URL, -u URL                      Youtube URL for which to download the comments

  --output OUTPUT, -o OUTPUT             Output filename (output format is line delimited JSON)

  --pretty, -p                           Change the output format to indented JSON

  --limit LIMIT, -l LIMIT                Limit the number of comments

  --language LANGUAGE, -a LANGUAGE       Language for Youtube generated text (e.g. en)

  --sort SORT, -s SORT                   Whether to download popular (0) or recent comments (1). Defaults to 1

```

For example:

```

youtube-comment-downloader --url https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScMzIvxBSi4 --output ScMzIvxBSi4.json

```

or using the Youtube ID:

```

youtube-comment-downloader --youtubeid ScMzIvxBSi4 --output ScMzIvxBSi4.json

```

For Youtube IDs starting with - (dash) you will need to run the script with:

`-y=idwithdash` or `--youtubeid=idwithdash`

### Usage as library

You can also use this script as a library. For instance, if you want to print out the 10 most popular comments for a particular Youtube video you can do the following:

```python

from itertools import islice

from youtube_comment_downloader import *

downloader = YoutubeCommentDownloader()

comments = downloader.get_comments_from_url('https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScMzIvxBSi4', sort_by=SORT_BY_POPULAR)

for comment in islice(comments, 10):

    print(comment)

```