youtubeClickbait

You must have a file in the .gitignore file called api.py In this file your google api key must be placed as

api_key = "your api key"

This is so the google api calls can be made. Please do not upload any api key to this repository.

Mac/Linux

pip install google-api-python-client

Windows

Youtube video titles and descriptions have the possibility to contain non latin characters and emojis. Because of this if you are using a windows machine your enivronment must support the reading and writing of these characters. One possible option https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/windows-terminal/9n0dx20hk701?activetab=pivot:overviewtab

pip install google-api-python-client

Supported Python Versions

Python 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9, and 3.10 This is limited by google-api

Current usage

python youtubeClickbait.py popular [num of loops] [pageToken]

python youtubeClickbait.py single_id [id]

python youtubeClickbait.py analysis [option]

python youtubeClickbait.py print [option]

Current option arguments

• popular searches through current most popular Videos
  • [ number of loops ]
    • must be between 1 and 40
    • 40 requests gets all top 200 videos at the current time
  • [ pageToken ]
    • can be none or any pageToken given by Youtube api

Each call to popular will pull at least 5 videos. Returns amount of videos added to the file and the next page token. The next page token can be used to call the next argument.

• single_id pulls the data for a single video given the video id

  • [ id ]
    • id is at the end of url
      • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xf4wmN0u8S8&t
      • Xf4wmN0u8S8&t

• analysis does some type of analysis on data

  • not fully implemented yet
  • [ title ]
    • does text analysis on titles of collected videos

• print prints data collected in some way

  • [ ids ]
    • prints current video ids and total amount

Example arguments

python youtubeClickbait.py popular 3 none

python youtubeClickbait.py popular 1 CA8QAA

python youtubeClickbait.py single_id Xf4wmN0u8S8&t

python youtubeClickbait.py analysis titles

python youtubeClickbait.py print ids

Data

Video information is currently stored in youtubeVideos.txt