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🎞️ Videos and Comments

The Videos tab covers video metadata and comments under videos.

Video parsing

📺 Video Metadata Parsing​

The task supports YouTube API and InnerTube API.

Input data:

  • Video — URLs from 3_Videos_Urls.txt.
  • Channel — URLs from 2_Channels_Urls.txt; the template collects videos from channels.

Filtering parameters:

  • Video filtering — enables preliminary filtering.
  • Latest videos from channel — limits the number of latest videos when Channel is selected as the input data.
  • View count [from] — minimum number of views.
  • Publication date [from] — lower publication date boundary in 01.01.2024 format.

Leave a field empty if the filter is not needed.

💬 Video Comment Parsing​

The task works through YouTube API and can use:

  • Video — comments are collected by URLs from 3_Videos_Urls.txt.
  • Channel — comments are collected from channel videos in 2_Channels_Urls.txt.

Available parameters:

  • Comment search [contains] — searches for comments with the specified text through YouTube API. This is faster than later filtering, but it does not replace all regex scenarios.
  • Exclude replies — saves only top-level comments.
  • Comment filtering — enables preliminary filtering.
  • Comment text [contains] — text filter with regex support.
  • Like count [from] — minimum number of comment likes.
  • Publication date and time [from] — lower publication date boundary, for example 01.01.2024 12:00.

Comment filtering is not applied to replies. If replies must be excluded, enable the separate Exclude replies option.

✅ Practical Flow​

  1. To collect specific videos, fill 3_Videos_Urls.txt.
  2. To collect videos or comments from channels, fill 2_Channels_Urls.txt.
  3. Select the source in the input settings.
  4. Enable filtering only when the criteria are clear in advance.
  5. Before a large run, test the result on one or two videos or channels.