From eb6e0a179cc93cbdf140e6c13391111389ac0ef5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrey <50486086+DarkCat09@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2021 18:31:06 +0400
Subject: [PATCH] Script for searching YouTube comments by query

---
 yt_commentsort.py | 49 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 49 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 yt_commentsort.py

diff --git a/yt_commentsort.py b/yt_commentsort.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..df6ace2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/yt_commentsort.py
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+import requests
+
+class YtComment:
+	def __init__(self, content, authorname, authorurl):
+		self._content = content
+		self._authorname = authorname
+		self._authorurl = authorurl
+	@property
+	def content(self):
+		return self._content
+	@property
+	def authorname(self):
+		return self._authorname
+	@property
+	def authorurl(self):
+		return self._authorurl
+
+
+def get_comments(videoid, apikey):
+	comments = requests.get(
+		'https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/commentThreads' + \
+		f'?part=id,snippet&videoId={videoid}&textFormat=plainText&key={apikey}').json()
+	return comments['items']
+
+def search_in_comments(comments, query):
+	filtered = []
+	for comment in comments:
+		info = comment['snippet']['topLevelComment']['snippet']
+		text = info['textDisplay']
+		author_name = info['authorDisplayName']
+		author_link = info['authorChannelUrl']
+		if (text.find(query.lower()) > -1):
+			filtered.append(YtComment(text, author_name, author_link))
+	return filtered
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+	apikey = '***YOUR_API_KEY***'
+	video_id = input('Enter video identifier:\t')
+	search_query = input('Enter search query:\t')
+	comments = get_comments(video_id, apikey)
+	filtered = search_in_comments(comments, search_query)
+	for ytcomment in filtered:
+		print('----------')
+		print(ytcomment.authorname)
+		print(ytcomment.authorurl)
+		print(ytcomment.content)
+	print('----------')
+	input()