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Python Youtube Data & Analytics API Script to Get Details of Video & Channel and Save it as JSON
Jun 3, 2025
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uh hello guys welcome to this video so
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in this video I will show you a package
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inside uh uh Python which actually uh
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interacts with the YouTube uh data API
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and analytics API to get the information
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regarding any YouTube video so basically
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I pasted this API key inside this Python
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script so what this Python script does
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you actually paste whatever video you
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want to get
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information so I pasted this video ID if
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you see of a certain YouTube video let
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me show you the video
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here so we will get all this information
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regarding this video such as you will
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see the title of the video the number of
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likes the number of
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comments so as I run this Python script
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here you will see Python app py all this
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information will be fetched and it will
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be saved inside this video data.json
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file if I see that this if new file will
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be created and inside this file here you
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will see the title description publish
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the number of views number of likes
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number of comments so all this
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information will be stored right here
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you will see it is now matching it
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73,000 likes you will see that comments
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you can
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see so in this way you can see that it
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is uh actually grabbing this all this
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information and
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uh the module that we are using right
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here for this if you go to this uh
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python- YouTube this is actually the
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module here simply execute this command
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just go to your command line and uh
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simply paste this to actually first of
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all install this module I have already
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done that and now I I will show you the
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script here it's very easy to do we
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first of all import the JSON module and
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uh then we import this module which is
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pi YouTube from this we import this API
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and then we simply define a function
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which will be get video data and to this
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function we will pass the video
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id and then we will initialize the API
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here and for initializing it here we
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need to simply pass the API
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key so this API key you can easily get
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inside your Google cloud console just
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create a API key i've already created
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one so simply copy this API key and uh
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this will be coming from your own Google
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cloud console so don't copy my API key
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and then after that initializing it now
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you can actually get all this
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information so there is a function right
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here inside this
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get video by ID so it fetches the video
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ID and here you just need to specify the
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video ID that the user has given you and
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now after that we can extract the
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relevant information such as the title
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of the video the description everything
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you will see title description publish
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ad thumbnail URL channel title view
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count like count dislike everything it
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can be fetched here you will see how
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easy it is to fetch all this
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information so I have given the script
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guys in the description of the video so
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if you need the full script you can go
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to the description so we get we declare
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this object here video data which
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contain all these properties title
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description view count like count
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comment count and just after that we
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simply save this information into a JSON
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file so let me say video data
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JSON JSON term so we dump all this
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information into a JSON
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file and then we simply return the video
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data now we just need to call this so
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inside our main function we simply
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provide a video ID so whichever video
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you are working here so this is you go
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to a particular video and this is
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actually the video ID so simply copy
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this video id to get the relevant
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information simply paste
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it after that you will get your data
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simply call this function get video data
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passing this video id and then we simply
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print out that uh
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data fetched and saved to video
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data.json so now what happens if I
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delete this file
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here and let's suppose I take
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uh my own
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video so if I type here
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freemediattools.com and let's suppose I
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take one of my popular videos here go to
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popular let me take this video for
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example i copy this video
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ID i paste
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it and once again run this script here
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you will see that so this will be
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created and you will see view count is
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3,37 likes 31 comment is five so you can
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match it it is perfectly fetching all
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this information
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so in this easy way guys it's a great
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module in Python to interact with the
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YouTube data and analytics API and with
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this module you can do more things as
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well but I showed you a very basic
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example of fetching the information
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regarding a particular YouTube video you
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can even fetch information regarding the
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channel you can search videos as well so
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it's a great module uh just play with
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this module inside the Python and uh
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also check out my website which is
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freemediatools.com
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uh which contains thousands of tools and
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I will be seeing you in the next
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