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Getting data from YouTube channel

You can extract media data (including some performance data, i.e. likes and views) from publicly available videos in YouTube channel.

Supported types of content:

  • Video file
  • Video description
  • Video thumbnail
  • Video commentaries

Prerequisites

Usage

media-fetcher \
  --source youtube \
  --youtube.channel=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.

Optional

  • type - Type of content to get from channel. One of videos, thumbnails, descriptions, commentaries.
media-fetcher \
  --source youtube \
  --youtube.channel=CHANNEL_ID \
  --youtube.type=commentaries

import media_fetching
from media_fetching.sources import youtube

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