Youtube

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)

Installation

$ npm i --save @oreobot/youtube # via npm
$ yarn add @oreobot/youtube # yarn
$ pnpm add @oreobot/youtube # pnpm

const YouTube = require('@oreobot/youtube').default;

Example

Search

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

/*
[1] SOFTLY (Official Music Video) KARAN AUJLA | IKKY | LATEST PUNJABI SONGS 2023 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWMxCE2HTag)
[2] Winning Speech (Music Video) Karan Aujla | Mxrci | Latest Punjabi Songs 2024 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsWxs1tuwDk)
[3] Admirin' You (Official Video) Karan Aujla | Ikky | Making Memories | Latest Punjabi Songs 2023 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k85UB5b6pJU)
*/

API

search(query, options?)

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

YouTube.search('Winning Speech Karan Aujla')
    .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('Winning Speech Karan Aujla')
    .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('karan aujla').then(console.log);

/*
[
  'karan aujla new song',
  'karan aujla',
  'karan aujla song',
  'karan aujla all songs',
  'karan aujla podcast',
  'karan aujla kapil sharma show',
  'karan aujla new song 2024',
  'karan aujla old songs',
  'karan aujla mashup',
  'karan aujla interview',
  'karan aujla concert',
  'karan aujla new album',
  'karan aujla sad song',
  'karan aujla ringtone'
]
*/

validate(src, type)

Used to validate url/id.

Response Example

[
  Video {
    nsfw: false,
    shorts: false,
    unlisted: false,
    id: 'cWMxCE2HTag',
    title: 'SOFTLY (Official Music Video) KARAN AUJLA | IKKY | LATEST PUNJABI SONGS 2023',
    description: null,
    durationFormatted: '2:51',
    duration: 171000,
    uploadedAt: '10 months ago',
    views: 230357853,
    thumbnail: Thumbnail {
      id: 'cWMxCE2HTag',
      width: 720,
      height: 404,
      url: 'https://i.ytimg.com/vi/cWMxCE2HTag/hq720.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEcCNAFEJQDSFXyq4qpAw4IARUAAIhCGAFwAcABBg==&rs=AOn4CLDAmmxoV3Kiaeb8CslaL5CWowbcMA'
    },
    channel: Channel {
      name: 'Karan Aujla',
      verified: true,
      id: 'UC3XBkDeCVXCoCofFgfUZXGw',
      url: 'https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3XBkDeCVXCoCofFgfUZXGw',
      icon: [Object],
      subscribers: null
    },
    likes: 0,
    dislikes: 0,
    upcoming: false,
    live: false,
    private: false,
    tags: [],
    music: undefined
  },
]

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