terrorizer1980 / YouTube-Indexer

Index YouTube creator videos and detect changes like removals or video duration changes. Requires no API key

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YouTube-Indexer

Index creators

Features

  • Index video details like title, duration and view count
  • Detect changes in any of the above
  • Detect removal/unlisting of videos
  • Saves changelog of changes as well as all videos in json or sqlite(default) format
  • Requires no API key
  • Privacy-friendly; transmits as little as possible
  • Light and fast

Usage

  • Run the main collector.py file (pass creators names as arguments)
    • python3 collector.py -c "youtuber 1" "youtuber 2" "youtuber 3" "and so on"
  • Re-run the script every now and then to detect changes. the changelog and database file(s) are updated after each execution
  • Run collector.py -h for more command info

NOTE
Use the -cts flag to convert existing database formats to SQLite format.

If you encounter any bugs let me know

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Index YouTube creator videos and detect changes like removals or video duration changes. Requires no API key

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