YouTube's API is annoying to work with, and has lots of limitations. utuby is a simple script for downloading Youtube comments without using the Youtube API - No API rate limits. No restrictions. Extremely fast.

• beautifulsoup4
• requests
• lxml
• cssselect
• vaderSentiment
• textblob
• pandas

Use the package manager pip to install following

pip install -r requirements.txt

Download it by clicking the green download button here on Github. You only need to parse specific YouTube URL as argument.

>>> from utuby.utuby import youtube

>>> url = 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjQFi-HP7po'

>>> youtube = youtube(url)

Directory of youtube class

>>> print(dir(youtube))

Examples for Extracting YouTube Channel Name

>>> youtube.channel_name

'Fully'

Examples Calculating Sentiment Scores for extracted YouTube Comments

>>> youtube.final_sentiment_scores

{'neu': 0.769, 'neg': 0.051, 'pos': 0.178, 'compound': 0.0}

Youtube Comments DataFrame

>>> youtube.youtube_comments_df.head()

Pull requests are welcome. For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.

Please make sure to update tests as appropriate.

MIT