NameError: name 'youtube' is not defined

[Mattie]

Hi!

I am trying to gather comments using the YouTube API. For this I use the example code provided on the Google developers site (I modified it a bit):

comments=[]
authors=[]

def get_comments(youtube, video_id):
  results = youtube.commentThreads().list(
    part="snippet",
    videoId=video_id,
    textFormat="plainText"
  ).execute()

  for item in results["items"]:
    comment = item["snippet"]["topLevelComment"]
    author = comment["snippet"]["authorDisplayName"]
    text = comment["snippet"]["textDisplay"]
    comments.append(text)
    authors.append(author)

  return comments

As far as I understand it, this bit of code builds a function. So now, I want to use this function to gather the comments of a video. To this end I do:

video_id='1234videoid'
get_comments(youtube, video_id)

But this gives me an error: NameError: name 'youtube' is not defined.

Does anyone know what I should fill out instead of youtube? I should define it somehow, but I don't understand its function in this code. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[John Boswell]

Presumably that refers to a Python Google API client instance: https://google-developers.appspot.com/api-client-library/python/

[sweded]

i had a similar error and corrected it by making sure i had this bit added to the code

import gdata.youtube

import gdata.youtube.service

yt_service = gdata.youtube.service.YouTubeService()