https://github.com/ohn0/youtube-livechat-scraper

grab youtube live chat data from existing VODs
https://github.com/ohn0/youtube-livechat-scraper

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grab youtube live chat data from existing VODs

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/ohn0/youtube-livechat-scraper
• Owner: ohn0
• License: mit
• Created: 2022-08-03T01:52:17.000Z (about 2 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2023-12-21T19:40:54.000Z (10 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-04-25T05:20:55.048Z (5 months ago)
• Topics: chat, livestreaming, python, python3, scraper, scraping-python, streaming, youtube
• Language: Python
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• Size: 492 KB
• Stars: 5
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 4
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# youtube-livechat-scraper

A tool to scrape youtube livechat data I came up with while watching vtubers. It rips almost all data from a VOD's livechat including the following:

- Chat messages

- Superchats

- Memberships joined

- Memberships gifted and received

- Purchased Stickers

All of the data can be wrapped up in a large raw JSON object that also contains lots of metadata from the responses, like the author, the time the message got sent, etc.

## USAGE:

Requires the following python3 packages:

  - NOTE: These packages will be installed via pip when installing the scraper.

  - BeautifulSoup

  - Requests

How to use:

  - Import the LiveChatScraper from scrapers.liveChatScraper to wherever you want to make the scraping call.

  - Find a VOD URL and copy it

  - Create a LiveChatScraper object and pass in the VOD's URL.

  - Call the scrape() method on the created scraper object and the scrape will run.

  - Once the scrape is completed, you can call ouputMessages() to get a dictionary with all the scraped data.

  - You can all save the scraped data as a JSON to a fill by calling the writeToFile method passing the OUTPUT_JSON constant

* example.py has a working example which saves the data to different formats