Ask HN: YouTube – how to batch scrape comments and details for 300 videos?

• youtube-comment-downloader

  4 827 4.0 Python

  Simple script for downloading Youtube comments without using the Youtube API

I would echo the advice of using a test framework. An alternative would be a browser extension, and using that to query the element ids while manually visiting each site.

The requirement to make it not tied to a Google account rules out what would be my preferred method of getting these via the YT API.

I think there are some open source git repos that already do what you're asking (e.g. https://github.com/egbertbouman/youtube-comment-downloader) but I haven't personally tried any of these.

• yt-dlp

  2,360 71,576 9.8 Python

  A feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader

  

Use: `yt-dlp with --write-comments --no-download --batch-file FILE`

- FILE is a text file with a list of YouTube id's/URL's

- https://superuser.com/a/1732443/4390

- https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

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