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Export Youtube Channel Videos to CSV using Python3 + Youtube Api
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import requests # or urllib | |
import csv | |
# get Youtube Data API Key | |
API_KEY = "" # insert your API key | |
# youtube channel ID | |
channel_id = "" # insert Youtube channel ID | |
page_token = "" | |
videos = [] | |
next = True | |
while next: | |
url = ("https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search?key=" | |
"{}&channelId={}&part=snippet,id" | |
"&order=date&maxResults=50&pageToken={}" | |
).format( | |
API_KEY, | |
channel_id, | |
page_token | |
) | |
resp = requests.get(url) | |
data = resp.json() | |
for i in data['items']: | |
videos.append(i) | |
# iterate through result pagination | |
is_next = data.get('nextPageToken') | |
if is_next: | |
page_token = is_next | |
else: | |
next = False | |
# structuring the data | |
rows = [] | |
for i in videos: | |
title = i['snippet'].get('title') | |
description = i['snippet'].get('description', "") | |
videoId = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v={}".format( | |
i['id'].get('videoId', "")) | |
# add special formula [=image("url")], so we can view the thumbnail in google docs spreadsheet | |
thumb = "=image(\"{}\")".format(i['snippet']['thumbnails'].get('default').get('url', "")) | |
rows.append(";".join([title, description, videoId, thumb])) | |
# data is now ready to write to csv file | |
# writing to csv file | |
path = "videos.csv" | |
with open(path, "w") as csv_file: | |
writer = csv.writer(csv_file, delimiter=";") | |
for row in rows: | |
writer.writerow(row.split(";")) |
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Hi, im pretty interested in use this program in order to use its output into an R script which aims to do some basic data analysis about a given youtube channel.
Unfortunately, I'm much of a noobie about this issues so there are some details i'm struggling to get yet.
What's the meaning of page_token, and how am I supposed to get it?
So sorry, as this will be probably an obvious question for you, and thank you in advance.