Description

• This is an automation tool that shows the latest crime news from multiple regions around the world
• It uses the YouTube API and makes a request for the crime news for a single regions (e.g. New York)
• Then it compiles all the findings, filters out the non-crime-related news and outputs the data onto a .txt file
• The file contains the areas, youtube video title and link of the crimes occurred in those areas

Improvements

• The tool can filter articles more accurately by adding more unique crime related terms in the wordsRelatedToCrime.js array
• More areas can be added to the youtubeSearches.js array (please use the same object data as the previous elements in the list)
• Output the data into a Google Document to make it easier to move to other google docs

Warning

• There can only be 100 API requests per day. Currently, the tool makes 31 requests so the tool can only be used 2 times a day at maximum
• The tool also gets data for upto 3 pages (since the API uses pagination) per search parameter (only for channel searches)

Setup

• Clone this repository

git clone https://github.com/rekredhead/youtube-crime-news-collector.git

• Install the dependencies

npm install

• Create/Use a Google Cloud Console Project and enable the YouTube Data API [https://console.cloud.google.com/apis/library/youtube.googleapis.com]
• Create an API Key and keep it saved
• Create a .env file containing the following:

API_KEY="(your-api-key)"

• Run the app:

npm start