[Air-L] Displaying All YouTube Comments?

[Bernhard Rieder]

Hi,

Some time ago, I built a tool that - amongst other things - gets all available comments from the commentThreads/list endpoint and creates a bunch of output files: https://tools.digitalmethods.net/netvizz/youtube/mod_video_info.php

best,
Bernhard


> On 24 Apr 2017, at 21:11 , Maurice Vergeer <m.vergeer at maw.ru.nl> wrote:
> 
> 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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>>>> Claudia Nazario
>>>> 
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>>>> 
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