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analytix 5.3.0
A simple yet powerful SDK for the YouTube Analytics API.
Features
Pythonic syntax lets you feel right at home
Dynamic error handling saves hours of troubleshooting and makes sure only valid requests count toward your API quota
A clever interface allows you to make multiple requests across multiple sessions without reauthorising
Extra support enables you to export reports in a variety of filetypes and to a number of DataFrame formats
Easy enough for beginners, but powerful enough for advanced users
Installation
Installing analytix
To install the latest stable version of analytix, use the following command:
pip install analytix
You can also install the latest development version using the following command:
pip install git+https://github.com/parafoxia/analytix
You may need to prefix these commands with a call to the Python interpreter depending on your OS and Python configuration.
Dependencies
Below is a list of analytix's dependencies.
Note that the minimum version assumes you're using CPython 3.8.
The latest versions of each library are always supported.
Name
Min. version
Required?
Usage
urllib3
2.2.0
Yes
Making HTTP requests
jwt
1.2.0
No
Decoding JWT ID tokens (from v5.1)
openpyxl
3.0.0
No
Exporting report data to Excel spreadsheets
pandas
~1.3.0
No
Exporting report data to pandas DataFrames
polars
0.15.17
No
Exporting report data to Polars DataFrames
pyarrow
~5.0.0
No
Exporting report data to Apache Arrow tables and file formats
OAuth authentication
All requests to the YouTube Analytics API need to be authorised through OAuth 2.
In order to do this, you will need a Google Developers project with the YouTube Analytics API enabled.
You can find instructions on how to do that in the API setup guide.
Once a project is set up, analytix handles authorisation — including token refreshing — for you.
More details regarding how and when refresh tokens expire can be found on the Google Identity documentation.
Usage
Retrieving reports
The following example creates a CSV file containing basic info for the 10 most viewed videos, from most to least viewed, in the US in 2022:
from datetime import date
from analytix import Client
client = Client("secrets.json")
report = client.fetch_report(
dimensions=("video",),
filters={"country": "US"},
metrics=("estimatedMinutesWatched", "views", "likes", "comments"),
sort_options=("-estimatedMinutesWatched",),
start_date=date(2022, 1, 1),
end_date=date(2022, 12, 31),
max_results=10,
)
report.to_csv("analytics.csv")
If you want to analyse this data using additional tools such as pandas, you can directly export the report as a DataFrame or table using the to_pandas(), to_arrow(), and to_polars() methods of the report instance.
You can also save the report as a .tsv, .json, .xlsx, .parquet, or .feather file.
There are more examples in the GitHub repository.
Fetching group information
You can also fetch groups and group items:
from analytix import Client
# You can also use the client as context manager!
with Client("secrets.json") as client:
groups = client.fetch_groups()
group_items = client.fetch_group_items(groups[0].id)
Logging
If you want to see what analytix is doing, you can enable the packaged logger:
import analytix
analytix.enable_logging()
This defaults to showing all log messages of level INFO and above.
To show more (or less) messages, pass a logging level as an argument.
Compatibility
CPython versions 3.8 through 3.12 and PyPy versions 3.9 and 3.10 are officially supported*.
CPython 3.13-dev is provisionally supported*.
Windows, MacOS, and Linux are all supported.
*For base analytix functionality; support cannot be guaranteed for functionality requiring external libraries.
Contributing
Contributions are very much welcome! To get started:
Familiarise yourself with the code of conduct
Have a look at the contributing guide
License
The analytix module for Python is licensed under the BSD 3-Clause License.
For personal and professional use. You cannot resell or redistribute these repositories in their original state.
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