As Internet has become integral part of our lives ,the expansion of internet, its migration toward cloud computing and huge amount of data flowing "big data" make internet more complex.Social media and introduction to GPTs and geneative Artificial intelligence (AI) on internet make it more Vulnerable. Now form a kid of 7-8 years of age to a person of 75-80 years are on social media and using internet for one or many reasons may be for playing games, chating watching web series or just to post on social media. This broad age spectrum make it more Vulnerable and create a super nova or paradice for cyber crimes and criminals. who make use of this technology to attack privacy, fraud people, cyber bulling, phishing or even generate fake news and many more complex crimes.
Python libraries that are used to collect metadata of YouTube Videos
| pytube | Extracts metadata (title, views, author, length, publish date, description) and can download videos. Very simple and offline-friendly. |
| youtube-dl | Command-line + Python module to extract all metadata, including formats, subtitles, thumbnails. Preserves more forensic details than pytube. |
| yt-dlp | A modern fork of youtube-dl — faster, supports more sites, and detailed JSON metadata. Recommended for forensic use. |
| google-api-python-client | Accesses YouTube Data API v3 to get verified metadata (channel info, statistics, comments). Requires API key. Ideal for forensic authenticity. |
