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As explained in the project proposal, the idea to retrieve all video ids is to start from a starting set of channels, then list their videos using YouTube Data API v3 PlaylistItems: list, then list the comments on their videos and then restart the process as we potentially retrieved new channels thanks to comment authors on videos from already known channels.
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For a given channel, there are two ways to list comments users published on it:
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1. As explained, YouTube Data API v3 PlaylistItems: list endpoint enables us to list the channel videos **(isn't there any limit?)** and CommentThreads: list and Comments: list endpoints enable us to retrieve their comments
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2. A simpler approach consists in using YouTube Data API v3 CommentThreads: list endpoint with `allThreadsRelatedToChannelId`. The main upside of this method, in addition to be simpler, is that for channels with many videos we spare much time by working 100 comments at a time instead of a video at a time with possibly not a single comment. Note that this approach doesn't list all videos etc so we don't retrieve some information. **As I haven't gone this way previously (or I forgot) making sure that for a given video we retrieve all its comments would make sense. Note that this approach may doesn't work for some *peppa-pig* like channels, as in my other project.**
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We can multi-thread this process by channel in both cases, however for the first one we can multi-thread per videos.
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As would like to proceed channel per channel, the question is **how much time does it take to retrieve all comments from the biggest YouTube channel? In case of willing to support *peppa-pig* like channels (if there is a problem for them (cf above)), this question doesn't matter, as we would be enforced to work video per video.**
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Have to proceed with a breadth-first search approach as treating all *child* channels might take a time equivalent to treating the whole original tree.
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