terrorizer1980/youtube-indexer

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

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

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

If you encounter any bugs let me know