Fixing ValueError thrown by int('')

YT can return 'No likes' / 'No dislikes'. The digits from this string give ''. Casting '' to an int gives ValueError.

Author: mattpopovich

web-scraping/youtube-extractor/extract_video_info.py

@@ -29,9 +29,11 @@ def get_video_info(url):
 result["tags"] =', '.join([ meta.attrs.get("content") formetainsoup.find_all("meta",{"property": "og:video:tag"}) ])
 # number of likes
 text_yt_formatted_strings=soup.find_all("yt-formatted-string",{"id": "text", "class": "ytd-toggle-button-renderer"})
-result["likes"] =int(''.join([ cforcintext_yt_formatted_strings[0].attrs.get("aria-label") ifc.isdigit() ]))
+result["likes"] =''.join([ cforcintext_yt_formatted_strings[0].attrs.get("aria-label") ifc.isdigit() ])
+result["likes"] =0ifresult['likes'] ==''elseint(result['likes'])
 # number of dislikes
-result["dislikes"] =int(''.join([ cforcintext_yt_formatted_strings[1].attrs.get("aria-label") ifc.isdigit() ]))
+result["dislikes"] =''.join([ cforcintext_yt_formatted_strings[1].attrs.get("aria-label") ifc.isdigit() ])
+result['dislikes'] =0ifresult['dislikes'] ==''elseint(result['dislikes'])
 
 # channel details
 channel_tag=soup.find("yt-formatted-string",{"class": "ytd-channel-name"}).find("a")
@@ -66,4 +68,4 @@ def get_video_info(url):
 print(f"\nDescription: {data['description']}\n")
 print(f"\nChannel Name: {data['channel']['name']}")
 print(f"Channel URL: {data['channel']['url']}")
-print(f"Channel Subscribers: {data['channel']['subscribers']}")
+print(f"Channel Subscribers: {data['channel']['subscribers']}")