Export to JSON and CSV

Every model (Video, Comment, VideoDetails, Transcript, …) can serialize itself. Collections of mixed search results use the module-level helpers.

from pathlib import Path

from ytscrape import YouTube, dumps_csv, dumps_json

with YouTube() as yt:
    results = list(yt.search("python", max_results=10))
    print(results[0].to_json())
    Path("search.csv").write_text(dumps_csv(results), encoding="utf-8")

    details = yt.video("dQw4w9WgXcQ")
    details.dump_json("video.json")

    comments = list(yt.comments("dQw4w9WgXcQ", max_results=50))
    dumps_json(comments)  # string

CLI:

ytscrape search "python" --max 5 --format json
ytscrape comments dQw4w9WgXcQ --max 20 --format csv -o comments.csv
ytscrape video dQw4w9WgXcQ --format json -o video.json

JSON includes computed fields such as url. Search items also get a type key (video / channel / playlist). Transcript CSV writes one row per caption snippet.