Access YouTube API via R. Get comments posted on YouTube videos, get information on how many times a video has been liked, search for videos with particular content, and much more. You can also get closed captions of videos you own. To learn more about the YouTube API, see https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/.
To get the current development version from GitHub:
# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("soodoku/tuber", build_vignettes = TRUE)To get a quick overview of some important functions in tuber, check out this article. For a fun vignette about how to analyze emojis in YouTube comments, see here.
To get going, get the application id and password from the Google
Developer Console (see
https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/getting-started). Enable all
the YouTube APIs. Then set the application id and password via the
yt_oauth function. For more information about YouTube OAuth, see
YouTube OAuth
Guide.
yt_oauth("app_id", "app_password")Note: If you are on ubuntu, you may have to run the following before doing anything:
httr::set_config(httr::config( ssl_verifypeer = 0L ) )
Get Statistics of a Video
get_stats(video_id = "N708P-A45D0")Get Information About a Video
get_video_details(video_id = "N708P-A45D0")Get Captions of a Video
get_captions(video_id = "yJXTXN4xrI8")Note: It was previously possible to get captions for all videos that
had “Community contributions” enabled. However, since YouTube removed
that option in September
2020, the
get_captions function now only works for videos created with the same
account as the API credentials you use. An alternative for collecting
YouTube video captions is the youtubecaption
package.
Search Videos
yt_search("Barack Obama")Get All the Comments Including Replies
get_all_comments(video_id = "a-UQz7fqR3w")Scripts are released under the MIT License.
The project welcomes contributions from everyone! In fact, it depends on it. To maintain this welcoming atmosphere, and to collaborate in a fun and productive way, we expect contributors to the project to abide by the Contributor Code of Conduct.