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Fixing ValueError thrown by int('') #59

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8 changes: 5 additions & 3 deletions web-scraping/youtube-extractor/extract_video_info.py
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Expand Up @@ -29,9 +29,11 @@ def get_video_info(url):
result["tags"] = ', '.join([ meta.attrs.get("content") for meta in soup.find_all("meta", {"property": "og:video:tag"}) ])
# number of likes
text_yt_formatted_strings = soup.find_all("yt-formatted-string", {"id": "text", "class": "ytd-toggle-button-renderer"})
result["likes"] = int(''.join([ c for c in text_yt_formatted_strings[0].attrs.get("aria-label") if c.isdigit() ]))
result["likes"] = ''.join([ c for c in text_yt_formatted_strings[0].attrs.get("aria-label") if c.isdigit() ])
result["likes"] = 0 if result['likes'] == '' else int(result['likes'])
# number of dislikes
result["dislikes"] = int(''.join([ c for c in text_yt_formatted_strings[1].attrs.get("aria-label") if c.isdigit() ]))
result["dislikes"] = ''.join([ c for c in text_yt_formatted_strings[1].attrs.get("aria-label") if c.isdigit() ])
result['dislikes'] = 0 if result['dislikes'] == '' else int(result['dislikes'])

# channel details
channel_tag = soup.find("yt-formatted-string", {"class": "ytd-channel-name"}).find("a")
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -66,4 +68,4 @@ def get_video_info(url):
print(f"\nDescription: {data['description']}\n")
print(f"\nChannel Name: {data['channel']['name']}")
print(f"Channel URL: {data['channel']['url']}")
print(f"Channel Subscribers: {data['channel']['subscribers']}")
print(f"Channel Subscribers: {data['channel']['subscribers']}")