Youtube grabber is Datacol-based module, scraping Youtube video information by specified keyword. In our example harvested data are saved to xlsx file. You can also adjust Datacol to export data to other file formats (e.g. TXT, XML), CMS (DLE, Joomla, WordPress), Mysql database etc.
1. Install Datacol trial version; 2. Choose content-parsers/youtube.com.par in the campaign tree and click Start button to launch youtube extractor campaign.
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Before launching content-parsers/youtube.com.par you can adjust the Input data. Select the campaign in the campaign tree for this purpose. In this way you can setup keywords to extract video for.
Please contact us if the Youtube grabber will not collect data after you have made changes to the Starting URL list.
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3. Wait for data extraction results to appear. When you see the first results, you can force running campaign to stop (click Stop button).
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4. After campaign is finished/stopped you can find youtube.com.xlsx file in Documents folder.
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If the source website blocks your IP-address (after blocking you will get no more extraction results), use proxy.
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[tab name=”Data processing and Export”] Data processing options for content, harvested by youtube extractor: