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To run this:

  • pip3 install -r requirements.txt
  •   python youtube_comment_extractor.py --help
    
    Output:
    usage: youtube_comment_extractor.py [-h] [-l LIMIT] [-o OUTPUT] url
    
    Simple YouTube Comment extractor
    
    positional arguments:
    url                   The YouTube video full URL
    
    optional arguments:
    -h, --help            show this help message and exit
    -l LIMIT, --limit LIMIT
                            Number of maximum comments to extract, helpful for
                            longer videos
    -o OUTPUT, --output OUTPUT
                            Output JSON file, e.g data.json
    
  • To download the latest 50 comments from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw and save them to data.json:
    python youtube_comment_extractor.py https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw --limit 50 --output data.json