mod_channels_related.php

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			<h1>Related Channel Network Module</h1>

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			<p>YouTube removed the related channels feature from its platform in May 2019.</p>
			
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			<p>This module starts from a list of seeds and crawls networks of channels connected via the "<a href="https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7216516?hl=en" target="_blank">related channels</a>" panel which YouTube generates algorithmically.
			(the channel network module uses featured channels and subscriptions as connections, which are set byt the channel owner).</p>
			
			<p>Related channel data are not retrieved via the API, but scraped from YouTube's web interface. To reduce the number of requests, this module caches channel data for three days. Remember that channels can
			<a href="https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7216516?hl=en" target="_blank">opt out of this feature</a> and will thus not appear in the network.</p>
				
			<p>Crawl depth specifies how far from the seeds the script should go. Crawl depth 0 will get only the relations between seeds. Using many seeds and the maximum crawl depth (3) can take a very long time or the script might run out of memory or get blocked. Start small.</p>
				
			<p>NB: since graph analysis software can have difficulties with very large numbers, channels' viewcount is given in 100s.</p>
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		<div class="sectionTab"><h1>Parameters</h1></div>
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		<div class="sectionTab"><h2>1) choose a starting point:</h2></div>
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		<div class="twoTab">Seeds:</div>
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			<textarea name="seeds"><?php echo $_POST["seeds"]; ?></textarea>
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		<div class="fourTab">(channel ids, comma separated)</div>
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		<div class="sectionTab"><h2>2) set additional parameters:</h2></div>
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		<div class="twoTab">Crawl depth:</div>
		<div class="threeTab"><input type="text" name="crawldepth" max="3" value="<?php echo (isset($_POST["crawldepth"])) ? $_POST["crawldepth"]:1; ?>" /></div>
		<div class="fourTab">(values are 0, 1, 2 or 3)</div>
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if(isset($_POST["seeds"])) {

	$crawldepth = $_POST["crawldepth"];
	
	$nodes = array();
	$edges = array();

	echo '<div class="rowTab">
			<div class="sectionTab"><h1>Result</h1></div>
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		 <div class="rowTab">Processing:';
	
	if($_POST["crawldepth"] > 4 || preg_match("/\D/", $_POST["crawldepth"])) {
		echo "<br /><br />Wrong crawldepth.";
		exit;
	}
	
	if($_POST["g-recaptcha-response"] == "") {
		echo "<br /><br />Recaptcha missing.";
		exit;
	}
	testcaptcha($_POST["g-recaptcha-response"]);
			
	$seeds = $_POST["seeds"];
	
	$seeds = preg_replace("/\s+/","",$seeds);
	$seeds = trim($seeds);
	
	$ids = explode(",",$seeds);
	
	$no_seeds = count($ids);
	
	//print_r($ids); exit;
	makeNetworkFromIds(0);
		
	echo '</div>';
}
	
	
function makeNetworkFromIds($depth) {
	
	global $apikey,$nodes,$edges,$ids,$crawldepth,$callcount;
	
	echo "<br /><br />getting details for ".count($ids)." channels at depth ".$depth.": ";
	
	$newids = array();
	
	for($i = 0; $i < count($ids); $i++) {
		
		$chid = $ids[$i];
		
		$jsonfn = "./cache/channelinfo_" . $chid . ".json";
		
		if (file_exists($jsonfn) && $delta < (60 * 60 * 24 * 3)) {
		
			$nodes[$chid] = json_decode(file_get_contents($jsonfn));
		
		} else {
			
			$restquery = "https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/channels?part=id,snippet,statistics&id=".$chid."&key=".$apikey;
		
			$reply = doAPIRequest($restquery);
	
			if(isset($reply->items[0])) {
				
				$nodes[$chid] = $reply->items[0];
				
				if($depth == 0) {
					$nodes[$chid]->isSeed = "yes";
					$nodes[$chid]->seedRank = ($i + 1);
				} else {
					$nodes[$chid]->isSeed = "no";
					$nodes[$chid]->seedRank = "";
				}
				
				$html = file_get_contents("https://www.youtube.com/channel/" . $chid);
				
				$callcount++;
			
				preg_match_all('/branded-page-related-channels-item.+data-external-id=\"(.*)\">/', $html, $matches, PREG_OFFSET_CAPTURE);	
			
				$nodes[$chid]->matches = $matches[1];
				
				file_put_contents($jsonfn, json_encode($nodes[$chid]));
			}
		}
				
		echo $i . " "; flush(); ob_flush();
	}


	foreach($nodes as $nodeid => $nodedata) {

		//print_r($nodedata->matches);
		//exit;

		if(count($nodedata->matches) > 0) {
				
			foreach($nodedata->matches as $match) {
				
				$featid = $match[0];
								
				if(!isset($nodes[$featid])) {
					
					if(!in_array($featid, $newids)) {
						
						$newids[] = $featid;
					}
					
					if($depth < $crawldepth) {
						$edgeid = $nodeid . "_|_|X|_|_" . $featid;
						$edges[$edgeid] = true;
					}
					
				} else {
	
					$edgeid = $nodeid . "_|_|X|_|_" . $featid;
					$edges[$edgeid] = true;
				}
			}	
		}
	}
	
	
	if($depth == $crawldepth) {
		
		renderNetwork();
		
	} else {
		
		$ids = $newids;
		
		$depth++;
		
		makeNetworkFromIds($depth);
	}
}

	

function renderNetwork() {
	
	global $nodes,$edges,$lookup,$no_seeds,$mode;

	
	$nodegdf = "nodedef>name VARCHAR,label VARCHAR,isSeed VARCHAR,seedRank INT,subscriberCount INT,videoCount INT,viewCount(100s) INT,country VARCHAR,publishedAt VARCHAR,daysactive INT\n";
	foreach($nodes as $nodeid => $nodedata) {
		
		$nodedata->statistics->viewCount = round($nodedata->statistics->viewCount / 100);
		$nodedata->snippet->country = (isset($nodedata->snippet->country)) ? $nodedata->snippet->country:"not set";
		$daysactive = round((time() - strtotime($nodedata->snippet->publishedAt)) / (60 * 60 * 24));
		
		$nodegdf .= $nodeid . "," . preg_replace("/,|\"|\'/"," ",$nodedata->snippet->title) . "," . $nodedata->isSeed . "," . $nodedata->seedRank . "," . $nodedata->statistics->subscriberCount . "," . $nodedata->statistics->videoCount . "," . $nodedata->statistics->viewCount . "," . $nodedata->snippet->country . "," . $nodedata->snippet->publishedAt . "," . $daysactive .  "\n";
	}
	
	$edgegdf = "edgedef>node1 VARCHAR,node2 VARCHAR,directed BOOLEAN\n";
	foreach($edges as $edgeid => $edgedata) {
		$tmp = explode("_|_|X|_|_",$edgeid);
		if(isset($nodes[$tmp[0]]) && isset($nodes[$tmp[1]])) {
			$edgegdf .= $tmp[0] . "," . $tmp[1] . ",true\n";
		}
	}
	
	$gdf = $nodegdf . $edgegdf;
	$filename = "channelnet_" . $mode . $no_seeds . "_nodes" . count($nodes) . "_" . date("Y_m_d-H_i_s");

	writefile("./data/".$filename.".gdf", $gdf);
	
	echo '<br /><br />The script has created a net with  '.count($nodes).' channels from '.$no_seeds.' seeds.<br /><br />

	your files:<br />
	<a href="./data/'.$filename.'.gdf" download>'.$filename.'.gdf</a><br />';

}

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