Youtube-sr NPM

YouTube Search

Simple package to make YouTube search.

Features

Easy
Simple
Fast
Lightweight

Supported

✅ Regular YouTube Search (Video/Channel/Playlist) (~25 items)
✅ Get specific video
✅ Get homepage contents
✅ Get Playlist (including all videos)
✅ Get Mixes
✅ YouTube safe search
✅ YouTube Trending (~50 items)

Using youtube-sr in Bun

youtube-sr works well with Bun runtime with zero configuration.

Dependencies

youtube-sr depends upon the fetch API. It by default picks the fetch api from window or global object. You may have to install fetch api in nodejs. youtube-sr supports undici, node-fetch & cross-fetch. You don't have to add anything to the code. youtube-sr tries to resolve these libs itself.

Installation

$ npm i --save youtube-sr # via npm
$ yarn add youtube-sr # yarn
$ pnpm add youtube-sr # pnpm

const YouTube = require("youtube-sr").default;

Deno

import YouTube from "https://deno.land/x/youtube_sr/mod.ts";

Example

Search

const videos = await YouTube.search("playing with fire", { limit: 3 });
console.log(videos.map((m, i) => `[${++i}] ${m.title} (${m.url})`).join("\n"));

/*
[1] BLACKPINK - '불장난 (PLAYING WITH FIRE)' M/V (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pdj4iJD08s)
[2] BLACKPINK - ‘불장난(PLAYING WITH FIRE)’ DANCE PRACTICE VIDEO (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvWfJTbrTBY)
[3] BLACKPINK - PLAYING WITH FIRE (불장난) [Color Coded Han|Rom|Eng] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PT0mv-4IL4M)
*/

Safe Search

YouTube.search("some nsfw query", { limit: 3, safeSearch: true })
    .then((x) => console.log(x))
    .catch(console.error);

API

search(query, options?)

Used to search videos/channels/playlists. This works like a general YouTube search.

YouTube.search("the weeknd save your tears")
    .then((vids) => console.log(vids.map((m) => m.url))) // ["https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXXXXXX", ...]
    .catch(console.error);

searchOne(query, ...options?)

Similar to search but makes single search.

YouTube.searchOne("the weeknd save your tears")
    .then((res) => console.log(res.url)) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXXXXXX
    .catch(console.error);

getPlaylist(query, options?)

Returns playlist info.

Note: Data returned by getPlaylist is different from the playlist data obtained by search. Using limit in options wont fetch all videos. They are for current chunk only! Use fetchAll: true in order to fetch all videos. > limit with fetchAll will limit the videos for whole playlist. However, limit may not be always accurate.

Basic

YouTube.getPlaylist("some_youtube_playlist")
    .then(console.log) // max 100 items
    .catch(console.error);

Fetch all videos immediately

YouTube.getPlaylist("some_youtube_playlist", { fetchAll: true }).then(console.log).catch(console.error);

Getting all videos from a playlist at once manually

YouTube.getPlaylist("some_youtube_playlist")
    .then((playlist) => playlist.fetch()) // if your playlist has 500 videos, this makes additional 4 requests to get rest of the 400 videos. (100 videos = 1 request)
    .then(console.log) // all parsable videos
    .catch(console.error);

Lazily getting videos from a playlist

YouTube.getPlaylist("some_youtube_playlist")
    .then((playlist) => playlist.next()) // fetches next 100 items
    .then(console.log) // all parsable videos
    .catch(console.error);

getVideo(url, options?)

Returns basic video info by its url.

Note: Data returned by getVideo is different from the search. shorts property of the video object might not be 100% accurate.

YouTube.getVideo("Some_Video_URL")
    .then(console.log) // Video info
    .catch(console.error);

homepage()

Returns videos from the YouTube homepage.

YouTube.homepage()
    .then(console.log) // videos from youtube homepage
    .catch(console.error);

trending()

Returns trending videos from the YouTube.

YouTube.trending()
    .then(console.log) // trending videos from youtube
    .catch(console.error);

getSuggestions(query)

Returns youtube search suggestions.

YouTube.getSuggestions("alan walker").then(console.log);

/*
[
  'alan walker',
  'alan walker songs',
  'alan walker faded',
  'alan walker alone',
  'alan walker remix',
  'alan walker spectre',
  'alan walker on my way',
  'alan walker new song',
  'alan walker lily',
  'alan walker darkside',
  'alan walker pubg song',
  'alan walker ringtone',
  'alan walker ignite',
  'alan walker live'
]
*/

validate(src, type)

Used to validate url/id.

Response Example

[
  Video {
    id: 'K5KAc5CoCuk',
    title: 'Indila - Dernière Danse (Clip Officiel)',
    description: 'Compositeurs: ',
    durationFormatted: '3:35',
    duration: 215000,
    uploadedAt: '7 years ago',
    views: 714624838,
    shorts: false,
    thumbnail: Thumbnail {
      id: 'K5KAc5CoCuk',
      width: 720,
      height: 404,
      url: 'https://i.ytimg.com/vi/K5KAc5CoCuk/hq720.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEXCNAFEJQDSFryq4qpAwkIARUAAIhCGAE=&rs=AOn4CLBBognlttPrCx9VCmx6P_nSW2LREw'
    },
    channel: Channel {
      name: 'Indila',
      verified: true,
      id: 'UCX4EBb-NmxyntI0mQAErHvQ',
      url: 'https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX4EBb-NmxyntI0mQAErHvQ',
      icon: [Object],
      subscribers: null
    },
    likes: 0,
    dislikes: 0,
    live: false,
    private: false,
    tags: []
  },
  Video {
    id: '1ox1GvNiwtc',
    title: 'Indila - dernière danse (last dance) english lyrics',
    description: 'If you liked this beautiful song, then mind an leave a thumbs up, and hit "Subscribe" for more videos,and share to make our videos ...',
    durationFormatted: '3:33',
    duration: 213000,
    uploadedAt: '6 years ago',
    views: 2004026,
    shorts: false,
    thumbnail: Thumbnail {
      id: '1ox1GvNiwtc',
      width: 720,
      height: 404,
      url: 'https://i.ytimg.com/vi/1ox1GvNiwtc/hq720.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEXCNAFEJQDSFryq4qpAwkIARUAAIhCGAE=&rs=AOn4CLDVTH3SyGIvvPWm-zcDT3X1uEZ7cQ'
    },
    channel: Channel {
      name: 'Freegs Box',
      verified: false,
      id: 'UCzgz8LIN-qjjVEqjKWGktiw',
      url: 'https://www.youtube.com/user/medpks',
      icon: [Object],
      subscribers: null
    },
    likes: 0,
    dislikes: 0,
    live: false,
    private: false,
    tags: []
  },
  Video {
    id: 'UN4VLmo1QG4',
    title: 'Indila - Dernière Danse (Lyrics)',
    description: 'I take requests just comment! Artist: ',
    durationFormatted: '3:32',
    duration: 212000,
    uploadedAt: '11 months ago',
    views: 1843719,
    shorts: false,
    thumbnail: Thumbnail {
      id: 'UN4VLmo1QG4',
      width: 720,
      height: 404,
      url: 'https://i.ytimg.com/vi/UN4VLmo1QG4/hq720.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEXCNAFEJQDSFryq4qpAwkIARUAAIhCGAE=&rs=AOn4CLDCaFr-i5MJrLSlclRRKSliEJ33lw'
    },
    channel: Channel {
      name: 'Audioandlyrics',
      verified: false,
      id: 'UChWcegNjI5qZV-8jBgFAJ6A',
      url: 'https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChWcegNjI5qZV-8jBgFAJ6A',
      icon: [Object],
      subscribers: null
    },
    likes: 0,
    dislikes: 0,
    live: false,
    private: false,
    tags: []
  }
]