YouTubers Not madeForKids: Detecting Channels Sharing Inappropriate Videos Targeting Children

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YouTubers Not madeForKids: Detecting Channels Sharing Inappropriate Videos Targeting Children

Repository contents

• Scripts: Scripts for collecting YouTube channel-centered information via YouTube API¹ and crawling libraries (beautifulsoup, selenium, puppeteer)
• Datasets: Datasets collected from crawling processes
• Plots: Scripts for plotting column features and formatted data

Cite

@inproceedings{gkolemi2022youtubers,
  title={YouTubers Not madeForKids: Detecting Channels Sharing Inappropriate Videos Targeting Children},
  author={Gkolemi, Myrsini and Papadopoulos, Panagiotis and Markatos, Evangelos and Kourtellis, Nicolas},
  booktitle={14th ACM Web Science Conference 2022},
  pages={370--381},
  year={2022}
}

Footnotes

1. In order to run the scripts you need a YouTube API key and MeaningCloud key. The current version of the YouTube API may not support all the functionalities in this repository. ↩