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Tutorials & How-To Guides

Everything you need to master channel auditing, hidden metric extraction, and Excel exports.

Step-by-step

1. Getting Started: Installing & Opening the Side Panel

Install CwinScraper from the Chrome Web Store or Edge Add-ons, pin the icon to your toolbar, and open the extension in the browser Side Panel.

  1. 1 Click "Add to Chrome" from the official store listing.
  2. 2 Click the puzzle icon (Extensions) in your browser toolbar and pin CwinScraper for quick access.
  3. 3 Navigate to any YouTube channel page (e.g., youtube.com/@Google/videos).
  4. 4 Click the CwinScraper icon. The extension immediately opens in the Chrome Side Panel alongside your tab!
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2. Sorting Modes: Latest vs Popular vs Oldest vs All

Master the three sorting strategies to collect the exact video segment you need for your audit.

  1. 1 Latest: Harvests videos in chronological upload order (great for tracking recent publishing cadence).
  2. 2 Popular: Gathers top-viewed videos first (ideal for identifying outlier hits and content pillars).
  3. 3 Oldest: Extracts foundational videos from the channel’s inception.
  4. 4 All Sorts: Automatically cycles through all 3 categories sequentially and applies deduplication logic to extract the complete channel catalog.
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3. Exporting Datasets to Excel (.xlsx), CSV, and JSON

Convert your scraped video data into professional formatted spreadsheets ready for stakeholder presentation or Google Sheets import.

  1. 1 Once scraping finishes or you hit "Stop", switch to the "Data Table" navigation tab.
  2. 2 Use the instant search box to filter video titles, or click column headers (Views, Likes, Comments) to sort descending.
  3. 3 Click "Excel (.xlsx)" to download a styled worksheet with auto-fit columns.
  4. 4 Click "CSV" for UTF-8 with BOM format, ensuring non-English titles (Vietnamese, Japanese, Arabic) render cleanly in Excel.
  5. 5 Click "Copy URLs" to copy all clean video links directly to your clipboard.
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4. Configuring Official YouTube Data API v3 (Optional)

Speed up video metadata enrichment up to 10x by optionally plugging in your personal Google Cloud API Key.

  1. 1 Go to the Google Cloud Console (console.cloud.google.com) and create a free project.
  2. 2 Enable the "YouTube Data API v3" in API Library.
  3. 3 Create an API Key under Credentials.
  4. 4 In CwinScraper Sidepanel, click the Gear icon (Settings), paste your key, and click "Test Connection".
  5. 5 Your key is stored 100% locally on your machine and gives you batch queries of 50 videos per call!