Fix #16: Provide an algorithm to determine the progress of retrieving comments for huge YouTube channels

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Benjamin Loison 2023-01-06 17:51:00 +01:00
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commit f436007836
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#!/usr/bin/python3
import os, requests, json, time, datetime
path = 'channels/'
os.chdir(path)
def getTimestampFromDateString(dateString):
return int(time.mktime(datetime.datetime.strptime(dateString, "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ").timetuple()))
for channelId in list(os.walk('.'))[1]:
channelId = channelId[2:]
#print(channelId)
numberOfRequests = len(list(os.walk(channelId))[0][2])
# Assume that the folder isn't empty (may not be the case, but it is most of the time).
with open(f'{channelId}/{str(numberOfRequests - 1)}.json') as f:
content = "\n".join(f.read().splitlines()[1:])
data = json.loads(content)
snippet = data['items'][-1]['snippet']
if 'topLevelComment' in snippet:
snippet = snippet['topLevelComment']['snippet']
latestTreatedCommentDate = snippet['publishedAt']
url = f'https://yt.lemnoslife.com/noKey/channels?part=snippet&id={channelId}'
content = requests.get(url).text
data = json.loads(content)
channelCreationDate = data['items'][0]['snippet']['publishedAt']
#print(channelCreationDate)
# Timing percentage not taking into account the not uniform in time distribution of comments.
currentTimestamp = int(time.time())
timingPercentage = round(100 * (currentTimestamp - getTimestampFromDateString(latestTreatedCommentDate)) / (currentTimestamp - getTimestampFromDateString(channelCreationDate)), 3)
print(f'{channelId} {latestTreatedCommentDate} / {channelCreationDate} ({timingPercentage}%)')
break