In this article, we will learn how can we obtain data (like title, views, likes, dislikes etc) from any YouTube video using a Python script. For this task, we are going to use very famous library for web scraping BeautifulSoup and Requests.
Modules required and Installation :
Requests :
Requests allows you to send HTTP/1.1 requests extremely easily. There’s no need to manually add query strings to your URLs.pip install requestsBeautiful Soup:
Beautiful Soup is a library that makes it easy to scrape information from web pages. It sits atop an HTML or XML parser, providing Pythonic idioms for iterating, searching, and modifying the parse tree.pip install beautifulsoup4
For a given URL of video, data scraping will be done. Then parsing of data (title, views, likes element) will be done using find() method of Beautiful Soup. It will find and store the values in the dictionary.
Code :
# importing the libraries from bs4 import BeautifulSoup import requests # creating function def scrape_info(url): # getting the request from url r = requests.get(url) # converting the text s = BeautifulSoup(r.text, "html.parser") # finding meta info for title title = s.find("span", class_="watch-title").text.replace("\n", "") # finding meta info for views views = s.find("div", class_="watch-view-count").text # finding meta info for likes likes = s.find("span", class_="like-button-renderer").span.button.text # saving this data in dictionary data = {'title':title, 'views':views, 'likes':likes} # returning the dictionary return data # main function if __name__ == "__main__": # URL of the video # calling the function data = scrape_info(url) # printing the dictionary print(data) |
Output:
{‘title’: ‘ Placement100 | Lazyroar ‘, ‘views’: ’18, 964 views’, ‘likes’: ’37’}
