The Youtube comment scraper seems to be down. about pythoncode-tutorials HOT 3 OPEN

It's not working for me either. I'm getting the same JSONDecodeError/Traceback that you are.

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I'm having the same issue too, while I'll try to fix the code, please refer to YouTube API tutorial instead (and that's what I'm currently using as well):

https://www.thepythoncode.com/article/using-youtube-api-in-python

Hope this helps!

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I understand this is an old issue, but I have found a fix for those who are still expecting one.

YouTube now uses var ytInitialData instead of window["ytInitialData"] . You can change line 50, or any line close by that creates the data_str variable from this:

data_str = find_value(
    res.text, 'window["ytInitialData"] = ', num_sep_chars=0, separator="\n"
).rstrip(";")

to this:

data_str = find_value(
    res.text, 'var ytInitialData = ', num_sep_chars=0, separator="\n"
).rstrip(";").split(';</script>')[0]

This script scrapes less comments than it should, although I don't know if it was always like that or not.
Hope this helps!

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