Scraping and Analysing YouTube Trending Videos for BI
Analysis of structured data has seen tremendous success in the past. However, large scale of an unstructured data have been analysed in the form of video format remains a challenging area. YouTube, a Google company, has over a billion users and it used to generate billions of views. Since YouTube data is getting created in a very huge amount with a lot of views and with an equally great speed, there is a huge demand to store the data, process the data and carefully study the data in this large amount of it usable. The project utilizes the YouTube Data API (Application Programming Interface) which allows the applications or websites to incorporate functions in which they are used by YouTube application to fetch and view the information. The Google Developers Console which is used to generate an unique access key which is further required to fetch the data from YouTube public channel. Process the data and finally data stored in AWS. This project extracts the meaningful output of which can be used by the management for analysis, these methodologies helpful for business intelligence.