Fetch youtube video meta data

[mohitkh7]

Write a script based on Youtube API's to fetch meta data such as likes, dislikes, views, length etc. of youtube video. On adding youtube video resources this script should all fetch relevant data and populate resources fields.

[vedangj044]

I think instead of using the youtube API . We can use Web-scrapers to fetch the required data.
Beautiful Soup can do this work for us, efficiently.

[vedangj044]

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32940484/how-to-retrieve-like-dislike-view-count-from-youtube

This guy managed to extract the likes from any Youtube Video.

The code used is

import re, requests
filesInChannel = ["https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcdEOHV3PgA"]
def getStats(link):
page = requests.get(link)
likes = re.search("with (\d*.\d*.\d*)", page.text).group(1)
title = re.search("property=\"og:title\" content=\"([^\n]*)", page.text).group(1)
return (likes, title)
for link in filesInChannel:
stats = getStats(link)
print(str(stats[0].encode("utf-8")) + " " + str(stats[1].encode("utf-8")))

[mohitkh7]

partially solved in PR #39 merged as commit 315a70f

[LordGameleo]

Can I work on this issue.... I have worked on something related to fetching data from youtube

[LordGameleo]

https://github.com/LordGameleo/Python-Projects/blob/master/youtube.py
check this.... in this we will just have to change the information we want to get from json object...... and remove the part where it starts the browser

[mohitkh7]

@LordGameleo Yes, Assigned to you

[LordGameleo]

@mohitkh7 what exactly do you want?....... what all details you want to fetch...... and do you want to stick with api use or will web scrapping work too.