Youtube Trending Feed Scrapper

It's a 2 scripts that is used to scrap and read the first 10 trending news in YouTube from any its available categories. Let be What's happening right Now, in Gaming, in Music, or in Movies You will get it on your local machine.

Installation

• Install the following Python libraries:

pip3 install selenium pymongo mongoengine pandas

• Place ChromeDriver in the same directory of the script. You can download it from here.
  (Note: Download the one with the same version of your Chrome browser.)

• Install MongoDB Community Server on your machine. You can refer to the installation from here.

Usage

The scripts allows you to save the scrapped content using 2 methods:

1. A MongoDB called Youtube and saved in a collection called trending.
2. A CSV file called Youtube.csv.

You can save using either or both, It's up to your desires. The same goes with scrap_reader.py, It can read from either MongoDB or the CSV file.

• For saving-to/reading-from a MongoDB, pass the -m argument.
• For saving-to/reading-from a CSV file, pass the -c argument.

Output

whatever the used argument to save the data is, it will be saved containing these video attributes:

1. Video Section
2. Video Title
3. Video Link
4. Video Channel
5. Video Views
6. Video Date

Authors

Written by XZANATOL.

The project was built as a contribution during GSSOC'21.