Found 0 video links for .....

yangobeil / youtube-downloader

Scrape Youtube for videos and extract screenshots from the videos

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Found 0 video links for ..... #1

Open berkantay opened 4 years ago

berkantay commented 4 years ago

I pass 'drone' to your script but code throws me Found 0 video links for drone.

extract_images_from_word('dron',delete_video=True,image_delay=0.5,num_urls=10,max_images=50,name="test_frame")

Kazlovich commented 3 years ago

I am having a similar issue and I tried to scrape simple content to test it, like videos of cats. Did you manage to find a solution? Any help would be much appreciated.

yangobeil commented 3 years ago

Hi,

Thanks for using my code :) It looks like youtube has changed the way their webpage is written so it's much more complicated to extract the list of video links for a given search word. The rest of the code works so I have a few suggestions:

I changed the code to include a new argument called urls. You can get the links to the videos manually by searching on youtube and use the list of urls to download images automatically.
An option to keep getting the video links automatically is to use Selenium to scrape the search results. This can be complicated with the new website, but it can give some results at least.
Google has a free API for youtube that can give you a list of videos for a search word so this might be a good solution.

Let me know if you would be interested to use one of the solutions and I can help you.

Kazlovich commented 3 years ago

Hi Yan,

Thank you so much for your response and suggestions. I am trying to generate a database so that I can train (or attempt to train) a model for medical research, primarily surgical applications. So looking at your suggestions, I think your first point with the suggested URL changes may be most suitable for my case. I really appreciate your help. Once again, thank you!

Kindly, Kate

Kazlovich commented 3 years ago

Hi Yan, I did the manual URL search and specified it in the code but it is still not working for me. Any chance you could do a simple example? Maybe a video with sport or something simple like cat or dog? I get errors like: Download of h did not work because of regexsearch: could not find match for (?:v=|\/)([0-9A-Za-z-]{11}).*... etc. etc.

yangobeil commented 3 years ago

Hi Kate,

Here is a colab notebook where I show how to download images from two different videos: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1URIvnIC-jsmqNxQM31z7ppLSMR1Rj1mc?usp=sharing. Let me know if it works for you :)