Chi Hack Night Youtube captions scraper/search interface
set up virtual environment:
- sudo pip install virtualenv
- virtualenv venv
- source venv/bin/activate
install dependencies:
- pip install -r requirements.txt
start using
- Download your
client_secrets.json - Run testscrape.py, authenticate, follow instructions
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Find the channel ID (an easy way is to visit the channel on YouTube and look at the URL) ** For each channel we have playlists, there is a related playlist called 'uploads' that lists all video uploaded by that channel
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Find the playlist ID of the upload playlist for your channel
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for each video we have subtitles
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subtitles can be downloaded and parsed, we chose an xml format