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garf for YouTube Data API

Install

Install garf-youtube-data-api library

pip install garf-executors garf-youtube-data-api

Usage

garf <PATH_TO_QUERIES> --source youtube-data-api \
  --output <OUTPUT_TYPE> \
  --source.<SOURCE_PARAMETER=VALUE>

where:

  • <PATH_TO_QUERIES> - local or remove files containing queries
  • <OUTPUT_TYPE> - output supported by garf-io library.
  • <SOURCE_PARAMETER=VALUE - key-value pairs to refine fetching, check available source parameters.

Available source parameters

name values comments
id id of YouTube channel or videos Multiple ids are supported, should be comma-separated
forHandle YouTube channel handle i.e. @myChannel
forUsername YouTube channel name i.e. myChannel
regionCode ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code i.e. US
chart mostPopular Gets most popular in regionCode, can be narrowed down with videoCategoriId