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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. 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.
For a given channel, there is a single way to list comments users published on it: For a given channel, there are two ways to list comments users published on it:
As explained, YouTube Data API v3 PlaylistItems: list endpoint enables us to list the channel videos up to 20,000 videos and CommentThreads: list and Comments: list endpoints enable us to retrieve their comments 1. As explained, YouTube Data API v3 PlaylistItems: list endpoint enables us to list the channel videos up to 20,000 videos (so we will not treat and write down channels in this case) and CommentThreads: list and Comments: list endpoints enable us to retrieve their comments
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 doesn't work for some channels that have comments enabled on some videos but not the whole channels.**
So when possible we will proceed with 2. and use 1. as a fallback approach.
We can multi-thread this process by channel or we can multi-thread per videos of a given channel. We can multi-thread this process by channel or we can multi-thread per videos of a given channel.
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? If the answer is a long period of time, then multi-threading per videos of a given channel may make sense.** 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? If the answer is a long period of time, then multi-threading per videos of a given channel may make sense.**
**In fact should proceed fastly with CommentThreads: list with `allThreads...` when possible**
**do I have an example of channels where commentthreads: list work but doesn't list a comment of a video ... ?**
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. 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.