A tool to intentionally discover valuable videos

Valuable-YouTube-Video-Finder

The project

The purpose of this project is to enable users to find valuable YouTube videos of their interest independent of YouTube’s recommendation system. For a more detailed explanation of the project, it’s purpose and how it was made, see this post on Medium.

Setup

YouTube-API-Key

You will need to acquire a YouTube v3 API key, which you can do so easily here. A helpful video outlining the process can be found here. After obtaining the API key, enter it as a string into the config.yaml file.

Packages

All requirements are contained within requirements.txt.

To install them, execute the following from the root directory:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Execution

After configuring config.yaml and installing requirements, the function can be executed from the command line using:

python3 main.py 'search term 1' 'search term 2'

The default search period is 7 days, but this can be modified with the ‘–search-period’ argument.

For example:

python3 main.py 'machine learning' 'medical school' --search-period 10

This will call the main.py function and output will be printed into the console.