https://github.com/santhoshse7en/utuby

simple script for downloading Youtube comments without using the Youtube API
https://github.com/santhoshse7en/utuby

ajax bs4 css-selector lexicon lxml scraper sentimental-analysis textblob textblob-sentiment-analysis vandersentiment web without-api youtube youtube-api youtube-channel youtube-comments youtube-comments-downloader youtube-downloader youtube-scraper

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simple script for downloading Youtube comments without using the Youtube API

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/santhoshse7en/utuby
• Owner: santhoshse7en
• License: mit
• Created: 2019-05-30T11:49:31.000Z (about 7 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2019-05-30T12:51:06.000Z (about 7 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-02-01T17:51:11.303Z (over 1 year ago)
• Topics: ajax, bs4, css-selector, lexicon, lxml, scraper, sentimental-analysis, textblob, textblob-sentiment-analysis, vandersentiment, web, without-api, youtube, youtube-api, youtube-channel, youtube-comments, youtube-comments-downloader, youtube-downloader, youtube-scraper
• Language: Python
• Homepage: https://santhoshse7en.github.io/utuby/.
• Size: 13.7 KB
• Stars: 3
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 3
• Open Issues: 1
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# 🎥 utuby

YouTube’s official API is restrictive 😤 — rate limits, quotas, API keys...

**utuby** is a fast and simple Python tool that scrapes YouTube **comments** without using the API —

✅ No rate limits,

✅ No keys,

✅ No restrictions.

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## 🔗 Project Links

|  Source        |  Link                                                     |

| ---------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------- |

| 🐍 PyPI          | [utuby on PyPI](https://pypi.org/project/utuby/)            |

| 🛠 Repository    | [GitHub Repo](https://github.com/santhoshse7en/utuby/)      |

| 📚 Documentation | [Read the Docs](https://santhoshse7en.github.io/utuby_doc/) |

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## 📦 Dependencies

* `beautifulsoup4`

* `requests`

* `lxml`

* `cssselect`

* `vaderSentiment`

* `textblob`

* `pandas`

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## 📥 Installation

Install the required dependencies using pip:

```bash

pip install -r requirements.txt

```

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## ⚙️ Quick Start

```python

from utuby.utuby import youtube

url = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjQFi-HP7po"

youtube = youtube(url)

```

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## 🔍 Features & Examples

### 🧭 Explore Available Methods

```python

print(dir(youtube))

```

![Directory](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/47944792/58631120-20cba880-82ff-11e9-92be-300d2714d37a.PNG)

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### 📺 Get Channel Name

```python

>>> youtube.channel_name

'Fully'

```

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### 🧠 Sentiment Analysis of Comments

```python

>>> youtube.final_sentiment_scores

{'neu': 0.769, 'neg': 0.051, 'pos': 0.178, 'compound': 0.0}

```

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### 📊 View YouTube Comments as DataFrame

```python

>>> youtube.youtube_comments_df.head()

```

![DataFrame](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/47944792/58631134-2c1ed400-82ff-11e9-8575-2b362ed28cb7.PNG)

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## 🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! 🛠️

For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you’d like to improve or add.

✅ Don’t forget to update or add tests accordingly.

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## 📜 License

This project is licensed under the [MIT License](https://choosealicense.com/licenses/mit/) 🪪

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