areed1192 / youtube-python-client

A Python client library for the YouTube API.

Unofficial YouTube Python Client

Table of Contents

• Overview
• Setup
• Usage
• Support These Projects

Overview

A python library that allows to manipulate the YouTube Data API to do common channel maintenance ranging from updating descriptions, uploading thumbnails, downloading statistics, and managing video content.

Setup

Setup - Requirements Install:

For this particular project, you only need to install the dependencies, to use the project. The dependencies are listed in the requirements.txt file and can be installed by running the following command:

pip install -r requirements.txt

After running that command, the dependencies should be installed.

Setup - Local Install:

If you are planning to make modifications to this project or you would like to access it before it has been indexed on PyPi. I would recommend you either install this project in editable mode or do a local install. For those of you, who want to make modifications to this project. I would recommend you install the library in editable mode.

If you want to install the library in editable mode, make sure to run the setup.py file, so you can install any dependencies you may need. To run the setup.py file, run the following command in your terminal.

pip install -e .

If you don't plan to make any modifications to the project but still want to use it across your different projects, then do a local install.

pip install .

This will install all the dependencies listed in the setup.py file. Once done you can use the library wherever you want.

Usage

import pathlib
from configparser import ConfigParser
from youtube.client import YouTubeClient

# Grab configuration values.
config = ConfigParser()
config.read('configs/config.ini')

# Grab the Inputs.
api_key = config.get('main', 'api_key')
channel_id = config.get('main', 'channel_id')
playlist_id = config.get('main', 'playlist_id')
client_secret_path = config.get('main', 'client_secret_path')
state_path = config.get('main', 'state_path')

# Create a new instance of the Client.
youtube_session = YouTubeClient(
    api_key=api_key,
    channel_id=channel_id,
    client_secret_path=client_secret_path,
    state_path=state_path
)

# Set the data folder.
youtube_session.data_folder_path = pathlib.Path('data').resolve()

Support These Projects

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