sweetcard / youtube-trending-videos-scraper

A scraper for videos that are trending on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/feed/trending)

Youtube Trending Videos Scraper

This is a Python scraper for YouTube's feed of videos that are trending.

Contents

• Requirements/Installation
• Usage
• Output
• Contribute
• License

Requirements/Installation

1. Install requirement(s):

• Python 3.4.3
• pip

2. Clone repository:

git clone https://github.com/jessecordeiro/youtube-trending-videos-scraper.git
cd youtube-trending-videos-scraper

3. Install dependencies:

python setup.py develop

Usage

import youtube_trending_scraper

youtube_trending_scraper.Scraper.scrape()

Optional argument: country code

Domain defaults to .com if no argument is provided

# Example: scrape Canada's trending videos
youtube_trending_scraper.Scraper.scrape("ca")

Output

[{
  "profile_name": "Lorem ipsum",
  "profile_url": "/user/loremipsumdolor",
  "upload_date": "1 day ago",
  "video_desc": "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, hymenaeos sodales in, scelerisque at.",
  "video_thumbnail": "https://..",
  "video_time": "2:12",
  "video_title": "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet",
  "video_url": "/watch?v=loR3MIpSUMgd",
  "view_count": "3,151,740"
}]

Contribute

1. Fork the repository
2. Create your feature branch: git checkout -b my-new-feature
3. Commit your changes: git commit -am 'Implemented x feature'
4. Push to the feature branch: git push origin x-feature
5. Open a pull request