People compare the number of subscribers in order to gauge the popularity of an Youtube channel. We propose to use the total number of views on the channel to determine popularity.

YT_Views_Comparison.ipynb

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    "# YT_Views_Comparison\n",
    "### This project is a part of the assignment for the class IS 665 of Fall 2019.\n",
    "##### *People compare the number of subscribers in order to gauge the popularity of an Youtube channel. We propose to use the total number of views on the channel to determine popularity.*\n"
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    "import requests\n",
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    "link1 = 'https://www.youtube.com/user/PewDiePie/about'\n",
    "link2 = 'https://www.youtube.com/user/tseries/about'"
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    "raw_details1 = requests.get(link1)\n",
    "raw_details2 = requests.get(link2)"
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    "soup_user1 = BeautifulSoup(raw_details1.text, \"html.parser\")\n",
    "soup_user2 = BeautifulSoup(raw_details2.text, \"html.parser\")"
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    "content_user1 = soup_user1.find(\"span\", {\"class\": \"about-stat\"})\n",
    "content_user2 = soup_user2.find(\"span\", {\"class\": \"about-stat\"})"
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   "cell_type": "code",
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    "user1_views=content_user1.get_text().replace(\",\", \"\").replace(\"views\", \"\").replace(\"•\", \"\").strip()"
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   "cell_type": "code",
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    "user2_views=content_user2.get_text().replace(\",\", \"\").replace(\"views\", \"\").replace(\"•\", \"\").strip()"
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    "diff=int(user1_views)-int(user2_views)"
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      "User2 is viewed more by User1 by 60,077,067,145 views\n"
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    "if(diff>0):\n",
    "    print(\"User1 is viewed more by User2 by \"+\"{:,}\".format(diff)+\" views\")\n",
    "elif(diff<0):\n",
    "    print(\"User2 is viewed more by User1 by \"+\"{:,}\".format(abs(diff))+\" views\")\n",
    "else:\n",
    "    print(\"Both users have equal number of views\")"
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   "source": [
    "*This project is inspired from [this fanstastic idea!](https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/Tanu-N-Prabhu/Python/blob/master/Scraping_two_YouTube_accounts_using_python_libraries.ipynb)*"
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