youtube-comment-scraper
v0.2.2
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Scraping comments from Youtube.
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Youtube comment scraper
Scraping comments from Youtube.
Installation
To install youtube-comment-scraper
in your global environment,
$ npm install -g youtube-comment-scraper
after that, you can use scraper
command.
Usage
Usage: scraper url [options]
url
URL for a Youtube video page or video ID.
--help, -h
Displays help information about this script
--version
Displays version info
Output is a JSON format text. Its schema looks like
{
"id": "the video ID.",
"channel":{
"id": "ID of the channel the video belongs to.",
"name" : "the channel name."
},
"comments": [
{
"root": "root (parent) comment body.",
"author": "author of the root comment.",
"author_id": "ID of the author",
"like": "like score (summation of +1 for like and -1 for dislike).",
"children": [
{
"comment": "reply comment.",
"author": "author of the reply comment.",
"author_id": "author ID",
"like": "like score."
},
...
]
},
...
]
}
Method
var scraper = require("youtube-comment-scraper");
scraper.comments(url)
Scraping a given Youtube page and return a set of comments.
- Args:
- url: URL of the target page or video ID.
- Returns: Promise object. Use "then" to receive results.
scraper.channel(url)
Scraping a Youtube channel page and return a description of the channel.
- Args:
- id: channel ID.
- Returns: Promise object. Use "then" method to receive results.
scraper.close()
Cleanup this module. After all scrapings have done, this method should be called. Otherwise, some instances of PhantomJS will keep running and it prevents finishing main process.
example
scraper.comments(some_url).then(function(res) {
// Printing the result.
console.log(JSON.stringify({
url: some_url,
comments: res
}));
// Close scraper.
scraper.close();
});
For developers
Build
Run the following two command.
$ npm install
$ npm run build
Run
$ ./bin/cli.js <url>
<url>
is a Youtube url.
License
This software is released under the MIT License, see LICENSE.