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Updated get_video_info() to work with new YouTube HTML formatting #65

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17 changes: 6 additions & 11 deletions web-scraping/youtube-extractor/README.md
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**Output:**
```
Title: Me at the zoo
Views: 106602383
Published at: 23/04/2005
Views: 172639597
Published at: 2005-04-23
Video Duration: 0:18
Video tags: me at the zoo, jawed karim, first youtube video
Likes: 3825489
Dislikes: 111818
Likes: 8188077
Dislikes: 191986

Description: The first video on YouTube. Maybe it's time to go back to the zoo?

NEW VIDEO LIVE! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w...


== Ok, new video as soon as 10M subscriberz! ==
Description: The first video on YouTube. While you wait for Part 2, listen to this great song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zj82_v2R6ts


Channel Name: jawed
Channel URL: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4QobU6STFB0P71PMvOGN5A
Channel Subscribers: 1.03M
Channel Subscribers: 1.98M subscribers
```
8 changes: 4 additions & 4 deletions web-scraping/youtube-extractor/extract_video_info.py
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# initialize the result
result = {}
# video title
result["title"] = soup.find("h1").text.strip()
result["title"] = soup.find("meta", itemprop="name")['content']
# video views (converted to integer)
result["views"] = int(''.join([ c for c in soup.find("span", attrs={"class": "view-count"}).text if c.isdigit() ]))
result["views"] = soup.find("meta", itemprop="interactionCount")['content']
# video description
result["description"] = soup.find("yt-formatted-string", {"class": "content"}).text
result["description"] = soup.find("meta", itemprop="description")['content']
# date published
result["date_published"] = soup.find("div", {"id": "date"}).text[1:]
result["date_published"] = soup.find("meta", itemprop="datePublished")['content']
# get the duration of the video
result["duration"] = soup.find("span", {"class": "ytp-time-duration"}).text
# get the video tags
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