Did you try to use Python to scrape YouTubers' contacts?

jeanfrank · Apr 10, 2023

Hi guys,
Hope you had a great weekend. Did you guys use python to scrape YouTubers' contacts? Or use some tools?
Looking forward to hearing more from you guys

Thanks in advance

ivan2020 · Apr 10, 2023

Hi,
You can scrape anything with Python and BeautifulSoup. If I need to scrape anything from the web I prefer to do this with Python, can't help with specific tools unfortunately.

Alfon · Apr 10, 2023

ivan2020 said:
Hi,
You can scrape anything with Python and BeautifulSoup. If I need to scrape anything from the web I prefer to do this with Python, can't help with specific tools unfortunately.

BeautifulSoup wouldn't work here because the client-side of YouTube is based on dynamic JavaScript.
BeautifulSoup only works on HTML-based websites.

Cheers,
Alfon.

ockboy · Apr 10, 2023

Alfon said:
BeautifulSoup wouldn't work here because the client-side of YouTube is based on dynamic JavaScript.
BeautifulSoup only works on HTML-based websites.

Cheers,
Alfon.

You can render first using Selenium and then parse the content with BeautifulSoup. Maybe you are refering to performing XHR requests and not being able to parse since javascript has not executed?

Alfon · Apr 10, 2023

ockboy said:
You can render first using Selenium and then parse the content with BeautifulSoup. Maybe you are refering to performing XHR requests and not being able to parse since javascript has not executed?

Render the page first using Selenium and then parse the content with BeautifulSoup works.
That's the way to go for websites that uses client-side JavaScript frameworks.

PeaceDoge · Apr 10, 2023

I found some tools on github, but really you should check on your own. It's a niche case, so would you mind me asking what are you planning on doing with contacts?

DeFiNFT1 · Apr 11, 2023

PeaceDoge said:
I found some tools on github, but really you should check on your own. It's a niche case, so would you mind me asking what are you planning on doing with contacts?

can u share a link

PeaceDoge · Apr 18, 2023

DeFiNFT1 said:
can u share a link

Sure, this one scrapes emails and contacts from what I gather:
https://github.com/dkohreidze/youtube-scraper

vuminh075 · Apr 19, 2023

Tried with c++ / c# but is difficult. YouTube emails are very hard to scrape now, even if you click you are not a bot but youtube thinks you are, will not show you email. Need 4g, human behaviour, aged account and more. Let me know how goes for you

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