A Python-based tool to scrape comments from YouTube videos using Selenium. This script extracts comments and their authors from a specified YouTube video and saves the data in a CSV file. It handles pagination and avoids duplicates, making it efficient for large-scale comment scraping.
- Scrape Comments: Extract comments and their authors from YouTube videos.
- Pagination Handling: Automatically scrolls to load more comments.
- Duplicate Prevention: Ensures no duplicate comments are saved.
- CSV Export: Saves scraped data in a CSV file with UTF-8 encoding for proper emoji display.
- Customizable: Easily adjust the number of comments to scrape or retry logic.
Ensure you have Python installed, then install the required dependencies:
pip install -r requirements.txt- Python 3.8 or higher.
- Google Chrome browser.
- ChromeDriver (matching your Chrome version).
For more details, refer to the project documentation or raise an issue in the reposito
The script generates a CSV file (Comment.csv) with the following columns:
- Author: The username of the commenter.
- Comment: The text of the comment.
| Author | Comment |
|---|---|
| JohnDoe | Great video! |
| JaneSmith | Thanks for the tutorial. |
| Alice | This was very helpful. |
| Bob | Can you make more of these? |