

YouTube Video Downloaders and Comment Scrapers So if there are no legal or ethical considerations about downloading videos and comments for analysis it becomes a question of technical implementation. With this project – looking at TED videos – these are not from an individual reliant on advertising revenue and there’s no individual to ask for permission to analyse.(See more at ).ĭoes it violate terms of use? Maybe but by a strict reading so does NCapture with it’s offline playback outside YouTube platform or app. So it’s not technically illegal to download a YouTube video – however there are ethical considerations over what sort of video and who published it. However, there is no direct import of transcript/captions and for at least the last year comment scraping is broken (doesn’t work in Chrome and IE not supported). You can also import and view the comments as a dataset. The video is then streamed into NVivo and can be treated as if it is in NVivo in terms of working with the video – you can select, code, add transcript rows etc. NCapture allows one-click browser-based capture of a YoutTube videos – and should enable comment download too. Like #ncapture by – but actually working- Steve Wright What can and can’t you do with YouTube videos? Seeking recommendations for a good/working/bloat&spyware free tool for scraping/downloading YouTube videos and comments to bring into CAQDAS?
