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egbertbouman / youtube-comment-downloader

Simple script for downloading Youtube comments without using the Youtube API
MIT License
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Returns zero comments #139

Closed gitdude1 closed 5 months ago

gitdude1 commented 5 months ago

I've been using v0.1.61 for the last couple of years without issues until Friday when the program started returning '0 comments downloaded' for all videos. I downloaded and installed v0.1.70 with the same results (the app now reports 1 comment for all videos due to a minor initialisation bug introduced in 'init.py').

I installed and ran another extraction app 'yt-dlp' and got the same results. A bug report post there stated that Google was A/B testing/trialling some changes to their software so that some users around the world would be adversely impacted while others would not.

debora-alayo commented 5 months ago

i have Downloaded 1 comment(s) and the file is empty

deekshaVarshney commented 5 months ago

yes same with me. for 90% urls it is not downloading.

1369sbo commented 5 months ago

Can confirm it was working normally last time I used it before today ( a week or so back), but now I get '...Downloaded 1 comment(s) ...' on a video with over a thousand comments (yet output file is empty)

egbertbouman commented 5 months ago

Thanks for letting me know! I'll take a look.

egbertbouman commented 5 months ago

It should be working again. Youtube made some changes, so some values may be different now. For instance, I noticed for the author we now have the username instead of the name linked to the account.