Googlyzer

A Data Visualization Tool for your YouTube watch history.

Note: This repo is heavily inspired by the work of Tomas Vik's Total YouTube Watchtime, and also borrows a certain part of code (fetch.js) from his repo. Kudos to the amazing idea!

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Current Charts that can be rendered:

• Top 10 Most Watched Channels by number of videos watched
• Top 10 Most Watched Channels by duration of videos (indicative of how much time you spend watching the channel)
• Minute by Day breakdown of your YouTube watch history (kind of like what's already available on the app, but with more number of days)
• Top 10 Most Watched Categories by number of videos watched
• Top 10 Most Watched Categories by duration of videos (indicative of how much time you spend watching the category)

Charts in Development:

• Top Videos watched sorted by Tag and number of videos.
• Top Videos watched sorted by Tag and duration
• More coming soon...

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How to use

These 3 parts can be done parallely.

Part 1: Get your Google Data

• For now, a db.json file that is an abstract of my own watch history is on this repo to experiment with.
• To see your data, you need to have a watch-history.json file that you can get from your Google Takeout.
• On the Takeout page, deselect all services and then select YouTube. Make sure that the format of 'history' is set to JSON and not HTML. All you need is your history.

Part 2: Start the project

git clone https://github.com/utkarshsingh99/Googlyzer && cd Googlyzer

npm i

Part 3: Get an API_KEY

• Follow this guide to get an API_KEY
• Copy the watch-history.json file and store it in the root of your repo.
• In the repo, execute:

API_KEY npm run fetch

Depending on your YT habits, this should take about 2-10 minutes to finish executing. Finally,

npm start

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Technologies:

• React
• Redux
• Redux Thunk
• YouTube API
• React-Vis