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holistic_plate opened this issue
a month ago

Missing a lot of the comments and replies. Unreliable.

memo23 avatar

hey mate, can you send me run url so I can check?

HP

holistic_plate

a month ago

thanks.

memo23 avatar

I mean the URL from apify where you run that youtube URL

HP

holistic_plate

a month ago

Thanks for the quick replies. I need comments and replies for my research. After I download the file, I spot check it against the site, and quickly see that many replies are missing.

https://console.apify.com/actors/9014XA2SYS1QZcVvI/runs/c8dYpqDYJuQG40ZyJ#log

and

https://console.apify.com/actors/9014XA2SYS1QZcVvI/runs/B3yzDKcFzY1dYhNAs#log

and

https://console.apify.com/actors/9014XA2SYS1QZcVvI/builds/0.0.13/log

and

https://console.apify.com/actors/9014XA2SYS1QZcVvI/builds/0.0.13/log

memo23 avatar

I got the same, I check the last comment and it is there, let me see for replies

memo23 avatar

can you tell me which comment or reply is missing please?

HP

holistic_plate

a month ago

sure...give me a little time and I'll redo my spot checking. have it in 24 hours.

HP

holistic_plate

a month ago

lol...time flies on a Friday.

Here is the last, most robust set of results. I was looking for comments and replies for this video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BcPHWGQO44

All 4 replies to this comment are missing from the scrape, but they are on the page. @brokendoll1107 5 years ago Great video! I’m going to have to show my grandma. I was reading some comments below that weren’t very nice and people forget that some people suffer from arthritis like my grandma and can’t be as active as they would like to anymore despite how active they were as young adults.


Most of the 15 replies for this comment are missing (and the one comment that is not missing is far away from the original post, which is a problem for my research).

@arundhawan6724 9 years ago God Bless You - I am senior and stroke survivor - I found your exercises quite helpful - Thanks for empowering to lead stable life.


None of the 13 replies to this comment were scraped @MrJim1859 10 years ago This is a good routine that I can stick with - The only problem is that your model has such a dead pan expression on his face.

memo23 avatar

hey, I made some changes, try it again and let me know :)

HP

holistic_plate

a month ago

thanks. I appreciate your responsiveness. The scraping of replies is working great--all are captured and under the original post. The problem is now that it is not getting to the end of the comment sections. I tried 8 other YouTube links multiple times and there was a similar problem. I had success with one that I did early and then went back to double check and it did not work-- ran out of steam. Any help here would be appreciated. I am doing research on the conversations on these videos and would like a large data set.

Here are the links that did not work-- I put the one that succeeded and failed first because there might be clues to the problem there.

  1. succeed: https://console.apify.com/view/runs/uOidyJhIZ3V00PHIi fail: https://console.apify.com/view/runs/vdBHZhhpwzx3dQPgH
  2. https://console.apify.com/view/runs/zAFxVDu2QI5j2ls36
  3. https://console.apify.com/view/runs/pLW6ve4iU6Nk3ru9N
  4. https://console.apify.com/view/runs/PLUNMC0VyGeU2FhsY
  5. https://console.apify.com/view/runs/JMRZgppX8pTfyfXF1
  6. https://console.apify.com/view/runs/gVORFaLceeLa1PayP
  7. https://console.apify.com/view/runs/chShPPX4b4uDCkXd0
  8. https://console.apify.com/view/runs/bqkGsEqMgQpiHTK0X
memo23 avatar

I see, I think 'the problem' is with 'Max Items', which basically defines when scraping should stop, just put the big number there and it should be good to go :)

btw, I see the 'Max Items' is not clear if you have a better 'version' for it please let me know, as I can see it can be misleading :)