ytscrape v1.0.0

YT Scrape

A youtube search api scraper, without the need for the tokens. Features:

Usage:

Installation:

You know how this goes, to install simply run: npm install ytscrape --save

Searching the web:

To get started with searching for things, you must import the module:

const ytScrape = require("ytscrape");

to search, use the module like so:

ytScrape("funny cat videos", (error, videos) => {
    //do something with the data
})

In the above code, error is a regular javascript error object, or, null. Whereas videos will allways be an array of video objects, or null.

Object layouts:

video:

{
    "title": "<video title>",
    "url": "https://youtube.com/watch?v=<video id>",
    "id": "<video id>",
    "metadata": {
        "title": "<video title>",
        "keywords": [
            //array of keywords associated with the video
        ],
        "description": "<video description>",
        "duration": {
            "hours": 0,
            "minutes": 5,
            "seconds": 17
        },
        "thumbnail": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/<video id>/maxresdefault.jpg",
        "familyFriendly": true,
        "youtubeGenre": "Comedy",
        "links": [
            //array of video source links
        ]
    }
}

source

Note: not all of the tags below are there for every source, they vary depending on if it is a video or audio source

{
    "url": "<youtube backend source link>",
    "fps": "30",
    "size": "1280x720",
    "bitrate": "2184764",
    "quality_label": "720p"
}