Youtube Video Scorer Chrome Extension

A chrome extension that scores youtube videos, based on k-means clustering and likes-to-view ratio..
A chrome extension that scores YouTube videos. It is a useful metric since dislikes and like-to-dislike ratio were removed from YouTube.**

- How to use

1. Install the extension.

2. Get an youtube api key from [Google](https://console.developers.google.com/apis/credentials). A free key allows you to score 10 000 videos per day.

3. Insert the API key in the extension popup.

4. Navigate to a YouTube video. The extension will score the video and display the score.

5. Click on the button in the extension popup to see the scores of multiple videos on the thumbnails.

- Technical Details

It works the following way:

1. gets video statistics using the youtube api.

2. Clusters video into groups based on video characteristics.

- Clustering is done using [K-means](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-means_clustering).

- Parameters used are combinations and transformations of views, video age, video length, number of comments, number of channel subscribers.

3. Scores the video relative to the other videos in the cluster.

- The score is the percentile of likes-to-view ratio .. the video relative to the other videos in the cluster.

- A transformation of the percentile to make the score more intuitive.

How it uses new video data:

- Centroids for clustering and statistics are pre-deployed.

- New video data is used to update the centroids and statistics locally on the browser.

- No data is collected or sent outside the browser.

How to install Youtube Video Scorer chrome extension in chrome Browser

You can Follow the below Step By Step procedure to install the Youtube Video Scorer Chrome Extension to your Chrome Web browser.

• Step 1: Go to the Chrome webstore https://chrome.google.com/webstore or download the extension Youtube Video Scorer Chrome Extension Download from https://pluginsaddonsextensions.com
• Step 2: Now search for the Youtube Video Scorer in Chrome Webstore Search and click on the search button.
• Step 3: click on the Youtube Video Scorer Chrome Extension Link
• Step 4: in the next page click on the Add to Chrome button to Download and Install the Youtube Video Scorer extension for your Chrome Web browser .