YouTube’s official API is restrictive 😤 — rate limits, quotas, API keys... utuby is a fast and simple Python tool that scrapes YouTube comments without using the API — ✅ No rate limits, ✅ No keys, ✅ No restrictions.

• beautifulsoup4
• requests
• lxml
• cssselect
• vaderSentiment
• textblob
• pandas

Install the required dependencies using pip:

pip install -r requirements.txt

from utuby.utuby import youtube

url = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjQFi-HP7po"
youtube = youtube(url)

print(dir(youtube))

>>> youtube.channel_name
'Fully'

>>> youtube.final_sentiment_scores
{'neu': 0.769, 'neg': 0.051, 'pos': 0.178, 'compound': 0.0}

>>> youtube.youtube_comments_df.head()

Contributions are welcome! 🛠️ For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you’d like to improve or add. ✅ Don’t forget to update or add tests accordingly.

This project is licensed under the MIT License 🪪