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https://github.com/sanjaydevtech/ytchannel
YouTube channel details extractor
https://github.com/sanjaydevtech/ytchannel
module python youtube youtube-api youtube-api-v3 youtube-channel
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YouTube channel details extractor
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/sanjaydevtech/ytchannel
- Owner: SanjayDevTech
- License: mit
- Created: 2020-04-11T06:17:03.000Z (over 4 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2020-04-25T15:12:17.000Z (over 4 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-09-28T03:21:57.080Z (about 2 months ago)
- Topics: module, python, youtube, youtube-api, youtube-api-v3, youtube-channel
- Language: Python
- Homepage: https://pypi.org/project/YTchannel/
- Size: 42 KB
- Stars: 0
- Watchers: 1
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- Funding: .github/FUNDING.yml
- License: LICENSE.txt
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README
# YTchannel
YouTube channel & video details extractor
## Features
Retrieve:-
- Youtube Video downloader
- Youtube Channel details
- Youtube Video details
## Requirements
You need to install requests module
```
pip install requests
```
## Installation
```
pip install YTchannel
```
## Importing
```python
import YTchannel as yt
```
## To Download Videos
```python
download = yt.YTdownloader()
```
#### Initialize video extraction
```python
try:
download.startDownload(video_url=video_url,video_id = video_id)
except KeyError:
#Invalid video id
except ConnectionError:
#Connection error
except IndexError:
#Can't find video
except:
#Something went wrong
```
#### Get Result
```python
result = download.getResults()
```
## For Channel details
```python
channel = yt.Channel()
```
#### Calling with a Id and API key
The first parameter must be the Channel id
Check below example
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_channel_id
here in this example the channel id is **UC_channel_id**
```python
try:
channel.startChannel(UC_channel_id,YOUR_API_KEY)
except KeyError:
#Invalid channel id
except ConnectionError:
#Connection error
except:
#Something went wrong
```
#### Check if the request is success
```python
result = channel.getChannel() #this will return all details in a dictionary
if result['result'] == 'OK':
#No problem do your thing
else:
#Something wrong like - no channel found or invalid api key
#use result['code'] to get the error code or result['message'] to know the message
```
#### How to get details
```python
print(result) #this will print all the details of a channel in a dictionary
```
## For video details
```python
video = yt.Video()
```
#### Calling with a Id and API key
The first parameter must be the video id or video_url
Check below example
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=video_id
here in this example the video id is **video_id**
```python
try:
video.startVideo(video_url=video_url,video_id = video_id,YOUR_API_KEY)
except KeyError:
#Invalid video id
except ConnectionError:
#Connection error
except:
#Something went wrong
```
#### Check if the request is success
```python
resultVideo = video.getVideo() #this will return all details in a dictionary
if resultVideo['result'] == 'OK':
#No problem do your thing
else:
#Something wrong like - no video found or invalid api key
#use resultVideo['code'] to get the error code or resultVideo['message'] to know the message
```
#### How to get details
```python
print(resultVideo) #this will print all the details of a video in a dictionary
```
## Any issues?
Create an issue on github
## Contact me
- On twitter https://twitter.com/SanjayDevTech
# **Happy coding**