Youtube Scraper Improved

Description

Promise based youtube scraper. Working towards typescript implementation.

Current functionality

• Get a transcript from a video
• Get a channel id from a username based url
• Get number of public uploaded videos from a channel
• Get all public uploaded video ids from a channel

Installation

npm install youtube-scraper-improved

Usage

const ytsi = require('youtube-scraper-improved');

(async function() {
  try {
    const scraper = new ytsi();
    const transcript = await scraper.Transcript.getTranscript('a_TSR_v07m0');
    console.log('transcript', transcript);
  } catch (error) {
    console.log('error');
    console.log(error);
  };
})();

Functions

# Get transcript from youtube
# Argument: Id of video
# Returns: string in srv format by default
scraperInstance.Transcript.getTranscript('video-id-goes-here');

# Example URLS
# Channel id: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCd_3THjYRVujgverdszeGfQ
# Username channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/polynesiancultural

# Get channel id from user name channel url
# Argument: Username channel url string
# Returns: UCd_3THjYRVujgverdszeGfQ
scraperInstance.Channel.getChannelIdByUserChannelUrl('user-channel-url-goes-here');

# Get number of uploaded videos
# Argument: Channel id or username url + '/videos'
# Ex Arg: https://www.youtube.com/user/polynesiancultural/videos
# Returns: Number of videos
scraperInstance.Channel.getNumberOfUploadedVideos('url-goes-here');

# Get all updated video ids
# Argument: Channel id or username url
# Returns: Array of strings
scraperInstance.Channel.getAllUploadedVideoIds('url-goes-here');

TODO

• Add more data endpoints
• Add Youtube API wrapper functionality
• Add testing -- Test if transcript does not exist, etc...