youtube-comments-analyzer

Description

This terminal-based application allows you to scrape top-level comments from YouTube videos and export them to a CSV file. It also uses Gemini Flash 1.5 to analyze the sentiment of the comments.

Features

• Export YouTube video comments to a CSV file
• Easily modify the target video by updating the video ID
• Integrate Gemini Flash 1.5 for comment sentiment analysis

Installation

1. Clone the repository

   git clone https://github.com/toby-d-parsons/youtube-comments-analyzer.git

2. Navigate to the project directory

   cd youtube-comments-analyzer

3. Set up API keys:

   • Create the files api_youtube.key and api_gemini.key.
   • Paste your YouTube Data API key into api_youtube.key.
   • Paste your Gemini API key into api_gemini.key.

   For more information, see how to setup a Google Cloud API key and a Gemini API key

4. Update the string value for app.run('W3id8E34cRQ') within lib/youtube_comments_analyzer.rb to the URL video id of your choice

5. Run the YouTube comments scraper:

   ruby lib/youtube_comments_analyzer.rb

6. The comments will be saved in export.csv, with each comment on a new line. The sentiment analysis of the comments will be printed in the console.