YouTubeExplorer

(Console Beta version)

YouTube Explorer is an unofficial tool for searching, filtering, and displaying comments from YouTube videos by keywords using the YouTube Data API v3.

Important clarification!!!

The .exe file is in releases. This .exe file does not have viruses. It was created for convenience. I made this file thanks to python -m PyInstaller --strip --icon="../Icon/IconYE.ico" YouTubeExplorer.py. If you do not trust the .exe file, I recommend you to use the .py file in Sources.

Table of Contents

• What do you need to use YouTube Explorer?
• Key Explorer provides:
• Quota Explorer provides:
• Comment Explorer provides:
• Video Explorer provides:
• Functionality:
• How to get the YouTube API key?
• What do I plan to make in the future?

What do you need to use YouTube Explorer?

1. The YouTube API key.
2. The video URL.
3. Your desire to use YouTube Explorer.

Key Explorer provides:

• Creating the Key.bin file in the folder.
• After creating Key.bin you do not need to write the key again.

Quota Explorer provides:

• Exploring your accessibility to the YouTube API quota.
• If you exeed the quota, the program ask you to leave it.

📌 Comment Explorer provides:

• To receive the list of comments from YouTube videos in the console.
• To filter comments by keyword.
• To sort by time or by relevance.
• to limit the number of output results.
• To find out the channel’s name where the video is hosted.
• Uninterrupted operation of this extention.
• There are messages if errors will be. The program will not stop.
• If an exception is Error: 403, Comment Explorer inform why this error occured.

Video Explorer provides:

• Search videos by your prompt.
• You must enter your region.
• You can enter certain date of videos’ releases; you can also enter a duration of videos.
• After exploring videos you should enter how many videos you want to receive.
• For one video you will receive information block. The title of the video, a link, views, likes, dislikes, amount of comments. Also the date, the channel and its YouTube link.
• Uninterrupted operation of this extention.
• There are messages if errors will be. The program will not stop.

⚙️ Functionality:

• The API key from Google Cloud Console (YouTube Data API v3) is being analyzed. If there is an error, it will ask you to enter it again.
• the video id, which is required for the YouTube Data API, is extracted from the YouTube video URL.
• Keywords (optional) — to filter comments. YouTube Explorer will search for comments on these keywords. YouTube Data API will not help it.
• The sorting method is by relevance or by time. If you press Enter, by relevance will be entered.
• Number of comments — output is limited at the user’s request.

❓ How to get the YouTube API key?

1. You need to follow the link: https://console.cloud.google.com.

2. You need to register for a Google account or log in to it.

3. Next, you press the Create or select a project button in the center of the page → New project

4. Next, you write the project name (Google can automatically specify the name, you do not have to write this name if you want) → If you do not have an organisation, just do not touch the Location item. → Press Create.

5. Without leaving the site, you need to press Select project and choose your project. You write to the search engine: YouTube Data API v3 → Enable

6. You will be redirected to the API configuration. In the left column, you should press Credentials.

7. At the top, click Create credentials → API key.

8. The end of the way! Just copy your API key and paste it into the Windows notepad or somewhere else.

🔧 What do I plan to make in the future?

1. The ability to save received comments and videos.
2. Explore the channels.

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