Overview of My Submission
YT_dislikes is a twitter bot that allows you to know the number of dislikes (and likes) of a YouTube video. Now it is not possible to see the number of dislikes in YouTube. To discover it, tweet tagging @YT_dislikes and adding the url of the YouTube video and the bot will answer you with the stats.
UPDATE! Now we can´t get the number of dislikes from the API (I´m sad), so this update includes the Return Youtube Dislike Chrome extension (thanks) to unlock them on the YouTube website. This number of dislikes is a prediction they do thanks to their great database.
This is how the bot works:
- Get the last 20 tweets tagging the bot
- Compare their tweet ID to the ones stored in the Mongo database (which are the tweets already answered)
- If those IDs are already in the database, do nothing
- If one or some are not in the database, use Selenium to get a screenshot of the likes/dislikes and generate a reply to the tweet
- Add these tweets ID to the database
And these are the main tools used:
- pyMongo
- Tweepy
- YouTube Data API
- Selenium
Submission Category
Choose Your Own Adventure
Link to Code
https://github.com/JavideJ/YT_dislikes_bot
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Top comments (2)
Interesting I will clone your repository to check on my computer. Thanks for the post
Thank you!