supergrass71
ljmccarthy
/ youtube_screen_scrape.py
Last active
March 24, 2021 01:11
An example of how to download metadata for all videos of a specified YouTube channel using simple BeautifulSoup screen scraping. The data will be much more up-to-date and reliable than the RSS feed or YouTube API results (which is a sad state of affairs really).
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| import urllib | |
| import json | |
| from bs4 import BeautifulSoup | |
| from collections import namedtuple | |
| Video = namedtuple("Video", "video_id title duration views thumbnail") | |
| def parse_video_div(div): | |
| video_id = div.get("data-context-item-id", "") | |
| title = div.find("a", "yt-uix-tile-link").text |