Youtube-Info

Make YouTube queries and get information from videos (including captions, likes, titles, etc.) ready for Jupyter Notebooks.

Installation

pip install youtubeinfo

USAGE

Create a search object

import youtubeinfo.core as yt
yt_search = yt.search("Test", developer_key=<YOUTUBE_DEVELOPER_KEY>)
yt_search.df  # DataFrame with YouTube infos (likes, views, title, etc.)

Output example:

videoId	publishedAt	channelId	title	…	viewCount	likeCount	dislikeCount	favoriteCount	commentCount
abcde1234	2021-06-01 10:00:00+00:00	abcde1234abc	Video title example 1	…	100000	6000	30	0	200
abcde1235	2021-06-01 11:00:00+00:00	abcde1234abc	Video title example 2	…	200000	5000	40	1	210
abcde1236	2021-06-01 12:00:00+00:00	abcde1234abd	Video title example 3	…	100000	4000	50	0	150
…	…	…	…	…	…	…	…	…	…

Developer key

YOUTUBE_DEVELOPER_KEY has to be created following https://developers.google.com/youtube/registering_an_application?hl=en and can be set as environment variable

Developer key as environment variable

Linux: edit ~/.profile and add as last line of code

export YOUTUBE_DEVELOPER_KEY=<YOUTUBE_DEVELOPER_KEY>

Captions

To get captions, use the argument captions=True

import youtubeinfo.core as yt
# YOUTUBE_DEVELOPER_KEY is not necessary if was set as environment variable
yt_search = yt.search("Test", caption=True)
yt_search.df  # A new column with captions "video_caption" will appear

Output example:

videoId	publishedAt	channelId	title	…	commentCount	video_caption
abcde1234	2021-06-01 10:00:00+00:00	abcde1234abc	Video title example 1	…	200	What they say; words and more words; thanks for watching
abcde1235	2021-06-01 11:00:00+00:00	abcde1234abc	Video title example 2	…	210	None
abcde1236	2021-06-01 12:00:00+00:00	abcde1234abd	Video title example 3	…	150	Words and more words and more words; thanks for watching
…	…	…	…	…	…	…