YouTube Data Scraper

Scrapes YouTube video metadata using the YouTube Data API v3 and prepares datasets for analysis, research, and machine learning projects.

Requirements

• A YouTube Data API v3 key
  Create one at: https://console.cloud.google.com/apis

Collected Fields

• video_id
• title
• description
• category_id
• views
• likes
• comments
• duration_sec
• publish_date
• channel_id
• channel_name
• subscriber_count
• thumbnail

Output

The script outputs structured data ready for:

• Data analysis
• NLP experiments
• Machine learning models
• Content performance research

Dataset

A large dataset collected using this scraper is publicly available on Kaggle: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/mohamedwael001/youtube-videos-mega-dataset-40000-entries

Notes

• YouTube API quotas apply. Generally 10,000 quotas daily
• This project is intended for educational and research use.