ytextractor

Note: An new version with async, NodeJS support and more fixes are in development at branch dev-v1.2

Youtube data extractor

Extracts the data of a Youtube url. but more will be added soon!

The objective is extract every data that don't need authentication

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Features

Extracted Info

• Video url

  • Video info
    • Id (video code)
    • Title
    • Description
    • Thumbnails
    • Embed
    • Publish date
    • Upload date
    • Length
    • Family friendly
    • Unlisted
    • Private
    • Live (is live)
    • Channel
    • Views
    • Category
    • Likes
    • Keywords
    • Captions URLs
  • Channel
    • Name
    • Id
    • Url
    • Subscribers
    • Channel icons
    • Hidden subscribers (bool)

• Channel url

  • Id
  • Url
  • Name
  • Subscribers
  • Channel icons
  • Hidden subscribers (bool)
  • Family safe
  • Tags
  • Description (about)
  • Banners
  • Links
    • Primary
    • Secondary
  • Highlighted playlists videos
  • Highlighted video
    • Id (video code)
    • Title
    • Description
    • Thumbnails
    • Views
    • Rounded publish date
    • Badges
      • Name
      • Icon
      • IconType
      • Style

• Video captions

• Video data

  • Subtitles
  • Comments
    • Comments of comments
  • Livechat
    • Realtime
    • Replay

• Search results

• All videos from channel/user

• All videos of playlist (a seq of videos)

JS (browser) target avaliable!

Online example

An example can be found in examples/web.

Unfortunately the implementation isn't async, soon it will be fixed

TODO: Add captions extraction to JS example

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Usage

video.nim

import ytextractor
echo extractVideo "7on15IWC2u4"

or

import ytextractor
var vid = initYoutubeVideo "7on15IWC2u4".videoId
discard vid.update()
echo vid

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channel.nim

import ytextractor
echo extractChannel "https://www.youtube.com/c/taofledermaus"

or

import ytextractor
var channel = initYoutubeChannel "https://www.youtube.com/c/taofledermaus".channelId
discard channel.update(home)
echo channel

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captions.nim

import ytextractor
echo "7on15IWC2u4".extractVideo.captions[0].url.extractCaptions

or

import ytextractor
var captions = initYoutubecaptions()
discard captions.update "7on15IWC2u4".extractVideo.captions[0].url
echo captions

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Installation

Minimum Nim version is 1.2.2

Please choice one installation method:

• Automatically with nimble

  nimble install ytextractor

Or

• Manually

  git clone https://github.com/thisago/ytextractor
  cd ytextractor/
  nimble install

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Docs

A online docs is hosted in Github Pages

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TODO

• Usage guide (not only Nim)
• Make requests async
• Use API https://www.youtube.com/youtubei/v1/browse to get channel data instead using simple page request
• Add tests for captions sub module

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Useful links

nlitsme/youtube_tool

Python3 parser
With a "How it works" section

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License

MIT