YouTube Channel Data Scraper 📝

This app scrapes YouTube channel data, including:

• Channel name.
• Channel ID.
• Channel age in years.
• Total subscribers.
• Total views.
• Amount of uploaded videos for the specified days.
• Total likes for the specified days.
• Total comments for the specified days.
• Average views per month(if specified date > 30 days).
• Average views per 3 month(if specified date > 90 days).

Prerequisites

1. Node.js (v14 or later) installed on your machine.
2. A YouTube Data API key. You can obtain one by following the instructions in the official YouTube API documentation.

Setup

1. Clone this repository to your local machine:

 git clone https://github.com/Raiden0456/Youtube_channel_scraper

2. Change to the project directory:

 cd /path/to/your-project

3. Install the required dependencies:

npm install

4. Set your YouTube Data API key as an environment variable:

• ./your-project-root/.env:

YOUTUBE_API_KEY = your_api_key

Running the App

1. Build the app by entering the following command:

npm run build

2. Run the app:

npm run start

• Alternatively you can run the app in dev mode(restarts automatically upon saving changes):

npm run dev

3. Input data:

• The app will prompt you to enter a YouTube channel customURL(youtube.com/@username enter only username). Enter the channel customURL(or multiple with separator ', ') and press Enter.
• After that, app will ask you what amount of previous days to fetch data from, input number(0 for the whole time) and press Enter.
• The app will then fetch the channel(s) data and store it in a channel_data.json file.

4. To view the scraped data, open the channel_data.json file in your preferred text editor or JSON viewer.

Note: If you want to add more channels to the channel_data.json file, simply run the app again and enter a different channel customURL. The app will update the channel_data.json file with the new data without overwriting the existing data.

Contributing

Feel free to contribute to this project by submitting issues, bug reports, or feature requests. You can also submit pull requests with your own improvements or fixes.
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