youtube video view count script that takes a youtube url as a commandline argument and prints its view count to the console, uses code from https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42926027/how-can-i-get-some-data-from-a-video-youtube-python

ytviews.py

import sys
import urllib2
source = sys.argv.pop()
response = urllib2.urlopen(source)
html = response.read()

wordBreak = ['<','>']  
html = list(html)
i = 0
while i < len(html):
    if html[i] in wordBreak:
        html[i] = ' '
    i += 1

#The block above is just to make the html.split() easier.

html = ''.join(html)
html = html.split()
dataSwitch = False
numOfViews = ''
for element in html:
    if element == '/div':
        dataSwitch = False
    if dataSwitch:
        numOfViews += str(element)
    if element == 'class="watch-view-count"':
        dataSwitch = True

print (numOfViews)