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Getting data from YouTube channel

You can extract video performance data (likes and views) from publicly available video in YouTube channel.

Prerequisites

Usage

media-fetcher \
  --source youtube \
  --youtube.account=CHANNEL_ID
import media_fetching
from media_fetching.sources import youtube

fetcher = media_fetching.MediaFetchingService(source='youtube')
request = youtube.YouTubeFetchingParameters(
  channel='CHANNEL_ID',
)
report = fetcher.fetch(request)

Reports can be written and processed. Learn more at garf.

Parameters

Mandatory

  • channel - YouTube channel Id.