YT Comments To Image

Posted on 11 October 2023.

html python

About

Create Screenshots of YouTube comments.

Usage

1. Save a youtube html page with comments
2. Run the convert.py python script to generate the png files containing the comments

python convert.py commnets.html

1. The output is in the out directory

Idea

• The script will create a out directory to output the images to.
• The script generates a index.html file to save the progress and uses Html2Image to convert that file to a PNG.
• youtubestrap.html contains the styles found in the head of any YouTube video web page and the body that will be used to wrap a single comment.
• comments.html is an example file with the comments from the Sigma Male Theme Song video - engineer grindset.
• The script looks for the ytd-comment-renderer tag in the HTML file, so it’s ok if the input file does not contain the entire web page and only a few copied pasted comments with inspect element.
• The div tag in the youtubestrap.html file with the id HEREISCONTENT will wrap the comment with the tag ytd-comment-renderer so don’t remove that or change it.

Conclusion

• GitHub Repo