Metadata-Version: 2.1
Name: youtube-comment-downloader
Version: 0.1.63
Summary: Simple script for downloading Youtube comments without using the Youtube API
Home-page: https://github.com/egbertbouman/youtube-comment-downloader
Author: Egbert Bouman
Author-email: ebouman@gmail.com
License: MIT
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License
Classifier: Environment :: Console
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 2
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
Description-Content-Type: text/markdown
License-File: LICENSE

# youtube-comment-downloader
Simple script for downloading Youtube comments without using the Youtube API. The output is in line delimited JSON.

### Installation

Preferably inside a [python virtual environment](https://virtualenv.pypa.io/en/latest/) install this package via:

```
pip install youtube-comment-downloader
```

Or directly from the GitHub repository:

```
pip install https://github.com/egbertbouman/youtube-comment-downloader/archive/master.zip
```

### Usage
```
$ youtube-comment-downloader --help
usage: youtube-comment-downloader [--help] [--youtubeid YOUTUBEID] [--url URL] [--output OUTPUT] [--limit LIMIT] [--language LANGUAGE] [--sort SORT]

Download Youtube comments without using the Youtube API

optional arguments:
  --help, -h            Show this help message and exit
  --youtubeid YOUTUBEID, -y YOUTUBEID
                        ID of Youtube video for which to download the comments
  --url URL, -u URL     Youtube URL for which to download the comments
  --output OUTPUT, -o OUTPUT
                        Output filename (output format is line delimited JSON)
  --limit LIMIT, -l LIMIT
                        Limit the number of comments
  --language LANGUAGE, -a LANGUAGE
                        Language for Youtube generated text (e.g. en)
  --sort SORT, -s SORT  Whether to download popular (0) or recent comments (1). Defaults to 1
```

For example:
```
youtube-comment-downloader --youtubeid ScMzIvxBSi4 --output ScMzIvxBSi4.json
```
or using the URL:
```
youtube-comment-downloader --url https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScMzIvxBSi4 --output ScMzIvxBSi4.json
```

For Youtube IDs starting with - (dash) you will need to run the script with:
`-y=-idwithdash` or `--youtubeid=-idwithdash`
