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https://github.com/riptl/ytpriv
YT metadata exporter
https://github.com/riptl/ytpriv
big-data crawler csv datascience json video youtube
Last synced: about 2 months ago
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YT metadata exporter
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/riptl/ytpriv
- Owner: riptl
- License: gpl-3.0
- Archived: true
- Created: 2018-07-31T03:09:13.000Z (about 6 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2022-03-10T15:12:46.000Z (over 2 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-07-29T11:15:07.737Z (about 2 months ago)
- Topics: big-data, crawler, csv, datascience, json, video, youtube
- Language: Go
- Homepage:
- Size: 1.43 MB
- Stars: 28
- Watchers: 4
- Forks: 7
- Open Issues: 6
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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README
# ytpriv 💾
**Note: This software is not maintained and will be archived soon.**
I do not provide support in any way. Learn to code and fork this repository if you need a feature/bugfix.
A fast tool for exporting YouTube data using their undocumented JSON APIs.
No API keys or logins required, and no stability guarantees given.
If you find it useful, please give it a star!
Please only use this tool to the extent permitted by the [YouTube ToS](https://www.youtube.com/static?template=terms).
## Installation
### From source
Requires a Go 1.14+ toolchain.
Run `go install ./cmd/ytpriv` to install to `$(go env GOPATH)/bin/ytpriv`.
## Features
```
ytpriv [command]
channel Scrape a channel
livestream Scrape a livestream
playlist Scrape a playlist
video Scrape a video
```
### Channel
```
ytpriv channel [command]
overview Get overview of channel
videos Get full list of videos of channel
videos_page Get videos page of channel
```
### Livestream
```
ytpriv livestream [command]
chat Follow the live chat
```
### Playlist
```
ytpriv playlist [command]
videos Get full list of videos in playlist
videos_page Get page of videos of playlist
```
### Video
```
ytpriv video [command]
comments Scrape comments of videos
detail Get details about a video
```
## Attributions
Developed by [@terorie](https://github.com/terorie)
Using the amazing Go ecosystem including:
- [fasthttp](https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/valyala/fasthttp) and [fastjson](github.com/valyala/fastjson) for fast networking
- [testify](https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/stretchr/testify) regression test helpers
- [cobra](https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/spf13/cobra) for CLI
- [backoff](https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/cenkalti/backoff/v4) for retries
- [zap](https://pkg.go.dev/go.uber.org/zap) logging