ExtractorYtbid: Class to handle comments of YouTube files with ytbid extension

Description

This class inherits from the Instance class and implements the functions of extracting the text and the date of an ytbid type file.

Usage

ExtractorYtbid

Arguments

Constructor

ExtractorYtbid$new(path)

Arguments:
- path: (character) path of the ytbid type file.

Inherit

This class inherits from Instance and implements the obtainSource and obtainDate abstracts functions.

Methods

obtainId: obtains the id of the ytbid. Read the id of the file indicated in the variable path.
- Usage: obtainId()
getId: gets of comment ID.
- Usage: getId()
- Value: value of comment ID.
obtainDate: obtains the date from a specific comment ID. If the comment has been previously cached the comment date is loaded from cache path. Otherwise, the request is perfomed using YouTube API and the date is then formatted to the established standard.
- Usage: obtainDate()
obtainSource: obtains the source from a specific comment ID. If the comment has previously been cached the source is loaded from cache path. Otherwise, the request is performed using on YouTube API.
- Usage: obtainSource()

Private fields

id: (character) ID of comment.

Details

YouTube conection is handled through the Connections class which loads the YouTube API credentials from the configuration file. Additionally, to increase the processing speed, each youtube query is stored in a cache to avoid the execution of duplicated queries. To enable this option, cache location should be in the cachePathYtbid indicated in the cache section from the configuration file. This variable has to be the path to store the comments and it is neccesary that it has two folder named: "_spam_" and "_ham_"

[cache]

cachePathYtbid = <<cache_path_ytbid>>