Requests the source code of a youtube channel page and scraps any data you need from it.

youtube_channel_scrapper.py

import time

import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

# Youtube channel URL
url = 'https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTCykZFeSbgMuL2ZzhSyVzg'

# Sleeping time
sleep_time = 5

while True:
    # Requesting page
    page = requests.get(url)

    # Parsing with beautiful soup
    soup = BeautifulSoup(page.text, 'html.parser')

    # Saves the found tag (you can modify to whichever tag you need)
    span = soup.find_all('span', class_='yt-subscription-button-subscriber-count-branded-horizontal')
    
    # Parses the tag and retrieves its text
    count = span[0].get_text()

    print(f'Subscribed: {count}')

    # Append on internal file
    f = open('out.txt', 'a')
    f.write(f'{count}\n')
    f.close()

    # Sleeping until next request
    print('Sleeping till next request ...')
    time.sleep(sleep_time)