Youtube description crawler?

[MoozOfDoomz]

Is there any way I'd be able to write a python script that would scan every video description of a YouTube channel for a word/list of words? E.g find every instance of "the, is, a".

[Slottr]

Web scraping

[mockedarche]

be able to yes. Python is extremely flexible and there definitely is a way. if i was you i'd look into making a more basic web crawler and then move towards your main goal. I say this because web crawlers are popular enough to find a lot of guides to get you started. If you're asking more about specifics then you can edit your main question to add that.

[pd.]

1. Install youtube-dl

2. youtube-dl --skip-download --write-description -v https://www.youtube.com/user/LinusCatTips/videos

    

3. grep -r "cat" /home/ltt/

    

[Alexeygridnev1993]

On 10/21/2020 at 8:54 PM, Sakuriru said:

Just make sure to respect https://www.youtube.com/robots.txt

Or, more realistically, use fake user-agent and rotating proxies