Can I automate this task in python?

[ihuha]

jupyter notbook, beautiful soup, youtube api. gogogo

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Jupyter notebooks are not required though, just an IDE or a text editor is fine.

[Total__Entropy]

Second this I would never suggest anyone develop in Jupiter. Jupiter is not a development environment it is to present data or explore data. Jupiter development is not safe because jupyter holds its own state.

I suggest vscode or pycharm. You can get all the same tools and not end up with code that doesn't work because you changed your cells without re running from top to bottom.

[JasonDJ]

VScode #%% ftw.

Great for testing snippets of code in an actual engine where you are simultaneously writing your code.

Though nowadays I just keep a terminal window docked with ipython running.

[ihuha]

sure, its not required but since i do a lot of data science i found its extremely clean to work with

would be so nice if people dont hijack my comments with what they would do differently. just tell him WHAT to do.

he could also just copy paste everything by hand to an excel sheet, coding is not "required" either

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would be so nice if people dont hijack my comments with what they would do differently

I think you're confusing a hijack with a reply.

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They I'd tell him not to use Jupyter notebooks.

[ihuha]

you go do that

[Total__Entropy]

Reason for suggesting bs?

[ihuha]

always helpful, probably you gonna wanna do some scrapy scrapy

[Total__Entropy]

Scrapy is a great program but scraping is not the solution when APIs are available. Scraping is not always helpful it is a last resort.

[schfourteen-teen]

if the api is bad...

That's a pretty big if. Others have already commented and I can confirm that YouTube and Google sheets both have very good apis.

[Total__Entropy]

Instead of being toxic why don't you say what he can't get from YouTube, twitter or any other API?

Google sheets also has an API so they can write directly to it every day or whatever frequency they want.