scrapetube Documentation

Scrapetube is a Python module designed to scrape YouTube data without requiring the official YouTube API or Selenium. It provides high-level functions to retrieve video information through three primary workflows:

• Channel Scraping: Retrieve all videos associated with a specific YouTube channel.
• Playlist Scraping: Retrieve all videos within a specific YouTube playlist.
• YouTube Search: Perform searches on YouTube to find relevant videos.

Install the scrapetube module using pip3. This module allows you to scrape YouTube data without using the official YouTube API or Selenium.

pip3 install scrapetube

Use scrapetube.get_channel(channel_id) to retrieve all videos associated with a specific YouTube channel ID. The returned object is an iterable of video dictionaries, where each dictionary contains a 'videoId' key.

import scrapetube

videos = scrapetube.get_channel("UCCezIgC97PvUuR4_gbFUs5g")

for video in videos:
    print(video['videoId'])

Use scrapetube.get_search(query) to perform a search on YouTube. The returned object is an iterable of video dictionaries, where each dictionary contains a 'videoId' key.

import scrapetube

videos = scrapetube.get_search("python")

for video in videos:
    print(video['videoId'])

Use scrapetube.get_playlist(playlist_id) to retrieve all videos from a specific YouTube playlist ID. The returned object is an iterable of video dictionaries, where each dictionary contains a 'videoId' key.

import scrapetube

videos = scrapetube.get_playlist("PL-osiE80TeTt2d9bfVyTiXJA-UTHn6WwU")

for video in videos:
    print(video['videoId'])

The core functionality of the scrapetube module is exposed through three main functions. You can use these to fetch video data based on different YouTube identifiers:

• get_channel: Fetches videos from a channel.
• get_playlist: Fetches videos from a playlist.
• get_search: Performs a search query on YouTube.