README.md

PyVideo Scrapers

Scrapy to generate the JSON files similar to the original pyvideo-data repo.

Python Version

Python 3.4+

Usage

Scraping YouTube playlist

After activating the virtual environment, simply call (inside videodata directory):

scrapy runspider videodata/spiders/youtube_playlist.py \
    -a playlist_id=<playlist_id> \
    [-a api_key=<google_api_key>] \
    [-s OUTPUT_DIR=<output_root_directory>]

where:

• playlist_id is a list query parameter from the YouTube playlist URL (example: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqtzN042QpfcOm_sOXxAixvNs9QWhhX5w)
• google_api_key is a secret key for Google APIs (required only if public API usage quota is exhausted) - for more info how to obtain the API key, visit: https://support.google.com/cloud/answer/6158862
• output_root_directory a root directory where the scraping results will be stored (default: <current-working-directory>/scraped_data)