Python to Scraping a Youtube Comment From URL with Full Source Code For Beginners

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This script will take a URL of a youtube video and it will give CSV file for users and comments.

Prerequisites:

  • You only need to have installed selenium which is used for automation.
  • Run the below script to install selenium
$ pip install selenium

Run the Script:

  • Simply replace your own youtube video url in the webscrapindcomment.py
  • And run command in the same directory
  • python webscrapindcomment.py

Source Code:

webscrapindcomment.py


from selenium import webdriver
import csv
import time

items=[]
driver=webdriver.Chrome(r"C:/Users/hp/Anaconda3/chromedriver.exe")

driver.get('https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFPMz36std4')

driver.execute_script('window.scrollTo(1, 500);')

#now wait let load the comments
time.sleep(5)

driver.execute_script('window.scrollTo(1, 3000);')


username_elems = driver.find_elements_by_xpath('//*[@id="author-text"]')
comment_elems = driver.find_elements_by_xpath('//*[@id="content-text"]')
for username, comment in zip(username_elems, comment_elems):
    item = {}
    item['Author'] = username.text
    item['Comment'] = comment.text
    items.append(item)
filename = 'C:/Users/hp/Desktop/commentlist.csv'
with open(filename, 'w', newline='', encoding='utf-8') as f: 
    w = csv.DictWriter(f,['Author','Comment']) 
    w.writeheader() 
    for item in items: 
        w.writerow(item) Code language: PHP (php)

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