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Python Social Media Analytics

You're reading from   Python Social Media Analytics Analyze and visualize data from Twitter, YouTube, GitHub, and more

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787121485
Length 312 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Baihaqi Siregar Baihaqi Siregar
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Siddhartha Chatterjee Siddhartha Chatterjee
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Michal Krystyanczuk Michal Krystyanczuk
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Table of Contents (10) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction to the Latest Social Media Landscape and Importance 2. Harnessing Social Data - Connecting, Capturing, and Cleaning FREE CHAPTER 3. Uncovering Brand Activity, Popularity, and Emotions on Facebook 4. Analyzing Twitter Using Sentiment Analysis and Entity Recognition 5. Campaigns and Consumer Reaction Analytics on YouTube – Structured and Unstructured 6. The Next Great Technology – Trends Mining on GitHub 7. Scraping and Extracting Conversational Topics on Internet Forums 8. Demystifying Pinterest through Network Analysis of Users Interests 9. Social Data Analytics at Scale – Spark and Amazon Web Services

Getting the data


YouTube provides very powerful APIs that can be used for interacting with videos or just getting information about them. The various numbers of APIs, endpoints, and parameters are a good selection of tools for creating applications and for getting informative data for further analysis. To follow the title of the chapter, we will be interested in the data that can bring valuable information about brands or products.

The Google documentation regarding the YouTube API is really large; hence, we will focus only on some parts of it to get started with this API, easily and rapidly. For our objective, we will use the YouTube Data API.

We are going to make authorized HTTP requests to the YouTube API www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3 for retrieving data.

The endpoint has several resources (methods). For our case, the methods /videos and /commentThreads will return sufficient amounts of data.

Like other APIs, the YouTube API requires an authorization. Basically, when the user requests some...

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