YouTube Data Extractor

This is a simple metadata extractor for YouTube videos; useful for OSINT investigations and data recollection. This simple code was originally inspired by the now defunct YouTube Data Viewer published by Amnesty International.

Yes, vibe-coded. It's just a simple tool.

Instructions

1. Download the youtube_extractor.py file.
2. Create a YouTube API key. See instructions.
3. Open the code and on line 16, replace the part that contains [REPLACE WITH YOUR API KEY] with your personal API key, and without the brackets.
4. Run the code using python3 youtube_extractor.py in the terminal.
5. Enter an URL of a YouTube video and see the output.