#!/usr/bin/env python3 """Scrape YouTube trending videos for Germany using InnerTube API with curl_cffi.""" import json import re import sys from curl_cffi import requests def get_api_key(session): """Extract the InnerTube API key from YouTube's homepage.""" r = session.get("https://www.youtube.com/", impersonate="chrome120") if r.status_code != 200: print(f"ERROR: Got status {r.status_code} from YouTube homepage", file=sys.stderr) return None match = re.search(r'"INNERTUBE_API_KEY"\s*:\s*"([^"]+)"', r.text) if match: return match.group(1) # Try alternate pattern match = re.search(r'"innertubeApiKey"\s*:\s*"([^"]+)"', r.text) if match: return match.group(1) return None def get_trending_videos(session, api_key): """Fetch trending videos via InnerTube API.""" url = f"https://www.youtube.com/youtubei/v1/browse?key={api_key}" headers = { "Content-Type": "application/json", "Accept-Language": "de-DE,de;q=0.9", "X-YouTube-Client-Name": "1", "X-YouTube-Client-Version": "2.20260609.07.00", "Origin": "https://www.youtube.com", "Referer": "https://www.youtube.com/feed/trending" } body = { "context": { "client": { "hl": "de", "gl": "DE", "clientName": "WEB", "clientVersion": "2.20260609.07.00", "utcOffsetMinutes": 120 } }, "browseId": "FEtrending" } r = session.post(url, headers=headers, json=body, impersonate="chrome120") if r.status_code != 200: print(f"ERROR: Got status {r.status_code} from trending API", file=sys.stderr) print(f"Response: {r.text[:500]}", file=sys.stderr) return None return r.json() def extract_videos(data): """Extract video information from the browse response.""" videos = [] def find_video_renderers(obj): if isinstance(obj, dict): if 'videoRenderer' in obj: vr = obj['videoRenderer'] video_id = vr.get('videoId', 'N/A') title_runs = vr.get('title', {}).get('runs', []) title = title_runs[0].get('text', 'N/A') if title_runs else 'N/A' owner_runs = vr.get('ownerText', {}).get('runs', []) channel = owner_runs[0].get('text', 'N/A') if owner_runs else 'N/A' views_text = vr.get('viewCountText', {}) views = views_text.get('simpleText', 'N/A') if views == 'N/A': views_runs = views_text.get('runs', []) views = ''.join(r.get('text', '') for r in views_runs) if views_runs else 'N/A' desc_snippet = vr.get('descriptionSnippet', {}) desc_runs = desc_snippet.get('runs', []) desc = ''.join(r.get('text', '') for r in desc_runs) if desc_runs else '' videos.append({ 'videoId': video_id, 'title': title, 'channel': channel, 'views': views, 'description_snippet': desc }) for key, value in obj.items(): if key != 'videoRenderer': find_video_renderers(value) elif isinstance(obj, list): for item in obj: find_video_renderers(item) find_video_renderers(data) return videos def get_video_description(session, api_key, video_id): """Fetch full video description via InnerTube player API.""" url = f"https://www.youtube.com/youtubei/v1/player?key={api_key}" headers = { "Content-Type": "application/json", "Accept-Language": "de-DE,de;q=0.9", "X-YouTube-Client-Name": "1", "X-YouTube-Client-Version": "2.20260609.07.00", "Origin": "https://www.youtube.com", "Referer": f"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v={video_id}" } body = { "context": { "client": { "hl": "de", "gl": "DE", "clientName": "WEB", "clientVersion": "2.20260609.07.00", "utcOffsetMinutes": 120 } }, "videoId": video_id, "racyCheckOk": True } r = session.post(url, headers=headers, json=body, impersonate="chrome120") if r.status_code != 200: print(f" ERROR: Got status {r.status_code} for video {video_id}", file=sys.stderr) return None try: data = r.json() except: return None # Extract description from videoDetails video_details = data.get('videoDetails', {}) short_desc = video_details.get('shortDescription', '') # Also try microformat microformat = data.get('microformat', {}).get('playerMicroformatRenderer', {}) full_desc = microformat.get('description', {}).get('simpleText', '') if not full_desc: desc_runs = microformat.get('description', {}).get('runs', []) full_desc = ''.join(r.get('text', '') for r in desc_runs) return full_desc or short_desc def main(): session = requests.Session() session.headers.update({ "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36" }) print("Step 1: Getting API key...", file=sys.stderr) api_key = get_api_key(session) if not api_key: print("ERROR: Could not get API key", file=sys.stderr) sys.exit(1) print(f"Got API key: {api_key[:15]}...", file=sys.stderr) print("Step 2: Fetching trending videos...", file=sys.stderr) data = get_trending_videos(session, api_key) if not data: print("ERROR: Could not fetch trending data", file=sys.stderr) sys.exit(1) videos = extract_videos(data) print(f"Found {len(videos)} videos", file=sys.stderr) # Print all found videos for debugging for i, v in enumerate(videos[:10]): print(f" {i+1}. [{v['videoId']}] {v['title'][:60]} - {v['channel']} ({v['views']})", file=sys.stderr) top5 = videos[:5] print("\nStep 3: Fetching full descriptions...", file=sys.stderr) results = [] for i, v in enumerate(top5): print(f" Fetching description for video {i+1}: {v['title'][:50]}...", file=sys.stderr) full_text = get_video_description(session, api_key, v['videoId']) desc_de = v.get('description_snippet', '') if not desc_de and full_text: sentences = re.split(r'(?<=[.!?])\s+', full_text) desc_de = ' '.join(sentences[:3]) results.append({ "title": v['title'], "channel": v['channel'], "views": v['views'], "description_de": desc_de[:300] if desc_de else "Keine Beschreibung verfügbar.", "source_url": f"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v={v['videoId']}", "full_text": full_text or "N/A", "tags": ["YOUTUBE", "TRENDING", "DEUTSCHLAND"] }) print("\n=== RESULTS ===", file=sys.stderr) print(json.dumps(results, ensure_ascii=False, indent=2)) if __name__ == "__main__": main()