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Dmitriy Zub ☀️
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Scrape Google Video Results using Python

Contents: intro, imports, what will be scraped, process, code, links, outro.

Intro

This blog post is a continuation of Google's web scraping series. Here you'll see examples of how you can scrape Google Video Results using Python using beautifulsoup, requests, lxml libraries. An alternative API solution will be shown.

Imports

import requests, lxml
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from serpapi import GoogleSearch
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What will be scraped

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Process

Selecting Container with all needed data

Selecting Displayed link

Selecting Title, Snippet, Uploaded by, Uploaded date

Code

import requests, lxml
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

headers = {
    "User-Agent":
    "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/70.0.3538.102 Safari/537.36 Edge/18.19582"
}

params = {
    "q": "somebody toucha my spaghet",
    "tbm": "vid",
    "hl": "en" # get english results
}

response = requests.get("https://www.google.com/search", headers=headers, params=params)
soup = BeautifulSoup(response.text, 'lxml')

for results in soup.select('.tF2Cxc'):
    title = results.select_one('.DKV0Md').text
    link = results.a['href']
    displayed_link = results.select_one('.TbwUpd.NJjxre').text
    snippet = results.select_one('.aCOpRe span').text
    uploaded_by = results.select_one('.uo4vr span').text.split(' ')[2]
    upload_date = results.select_one('.fG8Fp.uo4vr').text.split(' · ')[0]
    print(f'{title}\n{link}\n{displayed_link}\n{snippet}\n{upload_date}\n{uploaded_by}\n')

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'''
SOMEBODY TOUCHA MY SPAGHET - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cE1FrqheQNI
www.youtube.com › watch
SOMEBODY TOUCHA MY SPAGHET. 10,319,777 views10M views. Dec 26, 2017. 166K. 1.8K. Share. Save ...
Dec 27, 2017
Darkcode
...
'''
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Note that program above won't scrape such layout:
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Using Google Video Results API

SerpApi is a paid API with a free trial of 5,000 searches and scrapes additional layouts that might appear on Google Search, e.g. program above scrapes only this specific layout while SerpApi don't.

from serpapi import GoogleSearch
import json # used for pretty output

params = {
  "api_key": "YOUR_API_KEY",
  "engine": "google",
  "q": "somebody toucha my spaghet",
  "tbm": "vid",
  "hl": "en",
}

search = GoogleSearch(params)
results = search.get_dict()

[print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, ensure_ascii=False)) for result in results['video_results']]

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'''
{
  "position": 1,
  "title": "SOMEBODY TOUCHA MY SPAGHET - YouTube",
  "link": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cE1FrqheQNI",
  "displayed_link": "www.youtube.com › watch",
  "thumbnail": "https://serpapi.com/searches/60e1662d654a8c2684edee33/images/7554019104074b78f0fdde1c47929f2b933bcacc846404a15245dd2ae68bffe1.jpeg",
  "snippet": "SOMEBODY TOUCHA MY SPAGHET. 10,319,777 views10M views. Dec 26, 2017. 166K. 1.8K. Share. Save ...",
  "rich_snippet": {
      "extensions": [
        "Dec 26, 2017",
        "Uploaded by Darkcode"
      ]
   }
}
...
'''
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Links

Code in the online IDEGoogle Video Results API

Outro

If you have any questions or something isn't working correctly or you want to write something else, feel free to drop a comment in the comment section or via Twitter at @serp_api.

Yours,
Dimitry, and the rest of SerpApi Team.

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Rosalex A.

Hi nice job you can do the same for bing videos

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Dmitriy Zub ☀️

Hey, Rosalex! A blog post on how to scrape bing videos is available here.

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Dmitriy Zub ☀️ • Edited

Hi! :) Of course! As soon as it will be done, I'll add another comment here.
Thank you for this proposal! If there's something else, let me know.

All the best, D.