initial commit i watched a youtube video essay on this guy and was so inspired to make this, copied over some files from another webpage i test made

extract_comments.py

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+import json
+from yt_dlp import YoutubeDL
+
+url = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lW7vWfRI5oI"
+
+with YoutubeDL({"skip_download": True, "getcomments": True}) as derexXD:
+    info = derexXD.extract_info(url, download=False)
+
+comments = sorted(info.get("comments", []), key=lambda x: x.get("timestamp", 0))
+
+with open("docs/comments.json", "w") as file:
+    json.dump(comments, file, indent=2)
+
+print(f"Done\nExtracted {len(comments)} comments from el video (sorted oldest to newest)")