Python program to send the input of text file to youtube search api?

Question

I have a text file file1.txt that contains a list of keywords.

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I'm using the official python youtube api to search for these keywords; which at present I'm doing manually. How to automate this such that the program can search for these keywords one after another automatically.

from apiclient.discovery import build
from apiclient.errors import HttpError
from oauth2client.tools import argparser
DEVELOPER_KEY = "BIzaSyCwzkEAWUFXvWq0u1hybEK3ZdlQw-YRg2w"
YOUTUBE_API_SERVICE_NAME = "youtube"
YOUTUBE_API_VERSION = "v3"

def youtube_search(options):
  youtube = build(YOUTUBE_API_SERVICE_NAME, YOUTUBE_API_VERSION,
    developerKey=DEVELOPER_KEY)

# Call the search.list method to retrieve results matching the specified query term.
search_response = youtube.search().list(
  q=options.q,
  part="id,snippet",
  maxResults=options.max_results
).execute()
videos = []
for search_result in search_response.get("items", []):
  if search_result["id"]["kind"] == "youtube#video":
    videos.append("%s (%s)" % (search_result["snippet"]["title"],
                             search_result["id"]["videoId"]))
print "Videos:\n", "\n".join(videos), "\n"
keyword=raw_input("Enter the keyword you want to search video's for:")

if __name__ == "__main__":
  argparser.add_argument("--q", help="Search term", default=keyword)
  argparser.add_argument("--max-results", help="Max results", default=5)
  args = argparser.parse_args()

 try:
   youtube_search(args)
 except HttpError, e:
   print "An HTTP error %d occurred:\n%s" % (e.resp.status, e.content)

Edit 1: I did as you asked.

words = open('D:\keywordq.txt', 'r').read().split("\n")
for w in words:
  #keyword=raw_input("Enter the keyword you want to search video's for:")
  if __name__ == "__main__":
    argparser.add_argument("--q", help="Search term", default=w)
    argparser.add_argument("--max-results", help="Max results", default=5)
    args = argparser.parse_args()

Now in the output i get 5 blank lines instead of results.

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:20

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Why not read in the text using (assuming the words in your file are newline delimited) words = open(FILENAME, 'r').read().split('\n')? Then you can iterate through this list using a for loop for w in words: and just repeat your keyword search process there.

If you want to allow either specifying a file OR manually entering words, just read from the standard input (see How do you read from stdin in Python?)

edited May 23 '17 at 12:20

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answered Jun 07 '14 at 17:06

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I tried using **read.split('\n')**, it worked the first time but then started getting Message **AttributeError: 'builtin_function_or_method' object has no attribute 'split'** – Aaron Misquith Jun 08 '14 at 03:04
Sorry, I mistyped the example. There should be parens after read. Its fixed now, and should work. – Lgiro Jun 08 '14 at 04:56
did you try printing each word in the loop to ensure that much is working as expected? – Lgiro Jun 08 '14 at 07:51
I tried printing each word, but only first one will be printed. – Aaron Misquith Jun 17 '14 at 08:40

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