[Air-L] Displaying All YouTube Comments?

[Maurice Vergeer]

Thanks Michael,

you're correct. This is also possible with R package tuber.
SO maybe for Claudia this is an option. The drawback is R has a steep
learning curve.
Not sure whether there is an easier solution. Python maybe?


On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 8:35 PM, Michael Stewart <tgm at vt.edu> wrote:

> Good afternoon,
>
> Thanks to the pointer from Maurice, I did a quick test, and the
> documentation of their API is a little confusing, but the API can deliver
> more than 100 results (I assume it can deliver all comments), but it just
> paginates them based on the maxResults parameter. the response will include
> nextPageToken which can be used to retrieve the next "page" of results.  (I
> tested for only 2 "pages" and was able to grab 200 comments with distinct
> ids for a video)
>
> Also, I *think* that (in YT parlance) "commentThreads" is the more useful
> api: https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/commentThreads/list
>
> Michael
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 1:49 PM Maurice Vergeer <m.vergeer at maw.ru.nl>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Claudia,
>>
>> I'm not sure it's possible to collect all comments. The YouTube API
>> delivers 100 comments maximum (
>> https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/comments/list). To download
>> the comments can be done with R tuber (
>> https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/tuber/tuber.pdf).
>> If you need more you could try scraping the comments, but I am not sure
>> this will work on YouTube.
>>
>> Hope his helps
>> Maurice
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 6:46 PM, Claudia Nazario <
>> cnazario at email.arizona.edu
>> > wrote:
>>
>> > Hello all,
>> >
>> > Is anyone aware of how to display all pages/comments a video has
>> received
>> > on YouTube at the same time (instead of clicking on "Show More" to load
>> > additional comments)?
>> >
>> > I want to use a web tool to analyze the comments, but need all comments
>> > visible simultaneously.
>> >
>> > Thank you in advance for any suggestions and/or alternatives.
>> >
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