📥 youtube-stat2data

youtube-stat2data lets you easily download the list of videos and their metadata as a csv file

title	video_id	video_description	published_date	like_count	favorite_count	view_count	comment_count
Chinese tennis star denies making sexual assault allegation	3dUlbiAojo4	Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai has denied making sexual assault allegations against a retired Communist Party leader, following more than a month of growing concern about her safety and whereabouts that led to the Women's Tennis Association pulling out of China. CNN's Selina Wang has more. #CNN #News	2021-12-20T14:54:45Z	1093	0	82726	1343
How close is the US to civil war? Closer than you think, study says	6AS11SbvLmM	CNN's Michael Holmes talks with Professor Barbara Walter of the University of California San Diego about her work on a task force that tries to predict where outside the US a civil war is likely to break out. Walter says the two best predictors of whether violence is likely to occur currently exist in the US and have emerged at a "surprisingly fast rate." #CNN #News	2021-12-20T13:14:16Z	8826	0	51557	345

Description

Interested in downloading a set of metadata from videos of a specific Youtube channel?
youtube-stat2data is a simple tool that is solely built for that purpose.
With just the channel ID, you can get a full list of meta data including title, published date, video_description, view_count , like_count, favorite_count , and comment_count.
youtube-stat2data uses YouTube Data API (v3) and Youtube Analytics API.

Why did you iterate the Youtube API request monthly? Can't you just get all the Youtube data at one request?

Based on my experience, the Youtube API does not seem to give more than 501 videos at once. So, even though a Youtube channel has more than 10,000 videos uploaded on its channel, one API request will give less than 501 videos at once. I circumvented this issue by putting API requests for each month over the period of time I wanted.

If you're pulling more than 5,000 videos (which I believe would often be the case), you immediately hit the quota limit with one API key. In this situation, the API request would not provide you with all the data you need. Google allows users to create multiple API keys for free, so there's no loss on your side. Using multiple API keys and rotating them helps circumvent the issue of meeting the quota limit right away.

To use youtube-stat2data, you need to know your Youtube API Key(s) and the channel ID of the Youtube channel you want to get data from.

Go to Google Cloud Platform and click on create credentials icon to receive an API key. You will have to create at least three credentials if you're pulling data from more than 5,000 videos.
Then, go to API library to enable the two API libraries you need for pulling Youtube data: YouTube Data API (v3) and Youtube Analytics API.

channel_id you would use to pull the metadata is different from the name of the channel.

If you go to the homescreen of a Youtube channel, the URL link will include the name of the channel. For example, the url link of CNN's Youtube channel is youtube.com/user/CNN in the following screenshot.
Click on one of the videos of the youtube channel. The new URL link is for that specific video (the red box). Click on the name of the channel below the video, which is the one directed by the red arrow in the image below.
You are now back on the homescreen of the Youtube channel again, but you get a different URL. The last part of this URL is the channel ID. For example, the new URL link for CNN's Youtube channel is https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCupvZG-5ko_eiXAupbDfxWw (see image below). The channel ID for CNN's Youtube channel is "UCupvZG-5ko_eiXAupbDfxWw".