Comments Scraping Application For Review Youtube Content
M. Viny Christanti, Walda, Tri Sutrisno · IOP Conference Series Materials Science and Engineering · 2020
Abstract YouTube is one of social media that allows people to upload, view, and share videos through website. YouTube’s mission statement is to give everyone a voice and show them the world. Through YouTube, people can express their voices or show their creativity effortlessly. YouTube provides service for users to give opinions through comment section. The comments of users can be used to decide either the video has good ratings or not. Web Scraping can be used to take the comments of users from comment section. Web Scraping is a method to take some information from website by extracting data through tags in html. By inspecting code the YouTube website, the information of comments is contained in ‘ytd-comment-thread-renderer’. Information of comments is divided into reviewer and content of comments. Reviewer’s information is contained in id ‘author-text’ and the content is in ‘content-text’.