React-native-ytdl-ts NPM

react-native-ytdl

react-native-ytdl is a library that adapts node-ytdl-core for use in React Native projects, particularly those using Expo. This library provides a seamless way to download and manipulate YouTube videos within your React Native application.

Features

Download YouTube videos in various formats and qualities.
Extract video and audio information.
Compatible with Expo-managed and bare React Native projects.

Installation

To install react-native-ytdl, use npm or yarn:

npm install react-native-ytdl

yarn add react-native-ytdl

Usage

Here's a basic example of how to use react-native-ytdl in your React Native project:

import ytdl from 'react-native-ytdl';

const getVideoInfo = async (url) => {
  try {
    const info = await ytdl.getInfo(url);
    console.log(info);
  } catch (error) {
    console.error(error);
  }
};

// Example usage
const videoUrl = 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOUR_VIDEO_ID';
getVideoInfo(videoUrl);

Expo

You need to add the following to your metro.config.js to prevent other libraries from failing when they attempt to load Node standard libraries:

// Learn more https://docs.expo.io/guides/customizing-metro
const { getDefaultConfig } = require('@expo/metro-config');

/** @type {import('@expo/metro-config').MetroConfig} */
const config = getDefaultConfig(__dirname);
config.resolver.extraNodeModules = {
  vm: require.resolve('vm-browserify'),
  http: require.resolve('stream-http'),
  https: require.resolve('https-browserify'),
  url: require.resolve('url'),
  stream: require.resolve('readable-stream'),
};

module.exports = config;