Youtube channel bot

Telegram bot to search youtube channels using filters. You can find the bot at http://t.me/youtube_channel2_bot The bot uses the YouTube data API to find channels and the htmlcsstoimage API to convert html to image to make results more beautiful.

Using the bot

• Go to http://t.me/youtube_channel2_bot and start a chat with the bot

There are several supported commands:

• /show_filters shows your current filters
• /edit_filters gives you an opportunity to change your filters
• /search searching youtube channels using your filters

You can filter by:

1. the number of subscribers
2. the number of videos
3. the number of views
4. the average views by video

Creating your bot

Prerequisites

Python 3.10.x installed

Installation

git clone https://github.com/mikhailsinyakov/youtube_channel_bot.git
cd youtube_channel_bot
python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt

• Create a new bot in BotFather using /newbot command
• Get API token
• Get Google API key following steps at https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/getting-started
• Get user id and api key at https://htmlcsstoimage.com/
• Create an .env file and save your tokens in it

BOT_API_TOKEN = {YOUR_API_TOKEN}
GOOGLE_API_KEY = {YOUR_GOOGLE_API_TOKEN}
HTMLCSS_TO_IMAGE_USER_ID = {YOUR_USER_ID}
HTMLCSS_TO_IMAGE_API_KEY = {YOUR_API_KEY}

Run it

python3 bot.py