Scrape YouTube Comments With Python: Step-by-Step Tutorial

CHAPTERS
00:00 - Introduction
01:17 - Register for Youtube Data API v3
03:27 - Create Python Script
06:36 - Create Get Comment function
08:38 - Add Error handling to our function
09:31 - Calling our function in a loop and collecting results
12:19 - Response Object Explanation
13:08 - Writing comments to CSV!
15:22 - Testing
18:21 - Conclusion

"Welcome to our comprehensive Python tutorial on how to scrape YouTube comments and export them to a CSV file. This step-by-step guide is perfect for beginners and intermediate Python users who are interested in data scraping, data analysis, and automation.

In this tutorial, we'll cover:

Introduction to web scraping with Python
Using Python for YouTube data extraction
How to extract comments from YouTube videos
Converting YouTube comments into a CSV format for easy data analysis

I hope you enjoy!

[arthurwilton]

Thanks for posting! This looks interesting and useful.

[jenugan]

Hey, thanks for this video. I'm looking forward to see the next video about sentiment analysis:)

[rheavictor]

Dude thanks for this. I was trying to do this through frontend, what a pain haha.

[TheUtuber]

Thanks very much for this tutorial! I augmented the code a bit to add a few more fields, along with a header...

csvWrite = csv.writer(file)
csvWrite.writerow(["publishedAt", "authorDisplayName", "likeCount", "textDisplay"])
for i in comments:
row = [
i["snippet"]["topLevelComment"]["snippet"]["publishedAt"],
i["snippet"]["topLevelComment"]["snippet"]["authorDisplayName"],
i["snippet"]["topLevelComment"]["snippet"]["likeCount"],

]
csvWrite.writerow(row)

[NischayJoshi-zvyq]

This video was really helpful. Thank you.

[barrykrusch]

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