YouTube Personal Statistics

YouTube Personal Statistics will show you how much time you've spent watching videos.

How to use

• $ yarn or $ npm install to install dependencies
• Create a config.json using the config.json.sample file. Create a Google API Key here. You need to active the YouTube API V3 here.
• Download your Personal Google Data here.
  • First, on the top right corner, you need to choose the right Google Account and also the right YouTube Channel
  • Click on Create an archive
  • Only select My Activity
  • Select data: YouTube
  • Click on next
  • Click on Create an archive
  • Download your archive
  • Find the file My Activity.html in Takeout/My Activity/YouTube/
  • Move it to this folder and rename it activity.html
• Run using $ node index.js. This might take a while.

How does it work

• The script read and fetch every links of activity.html.
• It will next detect if the link is a video.
• A request containing 50 videos will be made because the YouTube API V3 limits the amount of videos to be 50 per request.
• For each video informations, the duration given by the YouTube API V3 will be converted to a human readable duration.
• The total amount of time spent on YouTube watching videos will be printed out.

Author

Aurèle Oulès