YouTube Trending Explorer

A simple Flask app to view trending YouTube video in various countries.

Features

• Filter trending video by region and category
• Export result to csv/xlsx/json/etc..
• Basic API to call

Installation

1. Get a YouTube API Key

• Here's a good tutorial: How to Get a YouTube API Key

2. Run it on Docker:

docker run -p 5000:5000 -e API_KEY=YOUR_API_KEY -d ok3721/youtube-trending-explorer:v0.1

For extra security, you can set up API key as secrets in Docker Compose, see How to use secrets in Docker Compose for more info.

Usage

• Web: Visit localhost:5000, click Submit after select category and region.

Note: some categories may return empty results

• API: Send an HTTP GET request to /returnjson. There are two parameters, region and category. region takes ISO standard two-letter country codes, and category takes YouTube video category ID. An example url: /returnjson?region=US&category=17

Credits

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