Python Social Media Analytics

Connecting to the API

You can use the following steps to connect to the API:

1. In the first place, you import the required libraries.

import requests, json 

2. Then, you define the access token from the previous step.

access_token = "YOUR_ACCESSS_TOKEN" 

3. The next task consists of creating a search query in the YouTube database that will give you a list of videos that match the search criteria:

query = 'YOUR_BOOLEAN_QUERY' 
 
url = 'https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search' 
 
params = {'part': 'snippet', 'q': query, 'type': 'video', 'videoCaption': 'closedCaption', 'access_token': access_token} 

4. You execute the request and get the data in response. The response is then converted into JSON to facilitate access to the data.

 response = ...