README.md

Package/Script Name

Aim

The aim of this project is to make a web scraper that scrapes YouTube.

Purpose

The purpose of this project is to get the top 10 trending videos in each of the categories

Short description of package/script

• The program gets the top 10 trending videos in each of YouTube's 4 categories and stores them in an excel fileby opening Chrome and navigating to the pages it needs to scrape.
• Imported libraries
  • BeautifulSoup
  • Selenium
  • Pandas
  • Requests

Workflow of the Project

1. Import libraries
2. Make the list of URLs to be scraped from
3. Scrape the URLs
4. Store the results in a pandas dataframe
5. Create an excel file

Setup instructions

• Make sure BeautifulSoup, Selenium, and Pandas are installed
• Make sure Chrome webdriver is installed
• Run the program and an excel file will be created with the scraped information

Output


Author(s)

Bhavesh Mandalapu