README.md

You can see the changelog here

You have to bear in mind that this does not use an official youtube api, there is no documentation and a change could cause it to throw an error, besides that there are things that I do not know, such as different privacy settings or rendering

Use example:

const { getVideo, getPlaylist, search } = require('@fabricio-191/youtube')
  .setDefaultOptions({
    location: 'AR',
    language: 'es-419'
  });

here you can see a JSON that shows the information that each method gives (I do not put it here, because it is a lot)

Methods:

getVideo(URLorID, options)

• returns a Promise

getVideo('https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2wCwdHk-ao&list=PLDS0dpumEOi0pu_0pCGqvcaRkxg-o1gqg')
  .then(data => {
    console.log(data);
    //do something...
  })  
  .catch(console.error);

getPlaylist(URLorID, options)

• returns a Promise

getPlaylist('https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2wCwdHk-ao&list=PLDS0dpumEOi0pu_0pCGqvcaRkxg-o1gqg')
  .then(data => {
    console.log(data);
    //do something...
  })  
  .catch(console.error);

search(searchString, options)

• returns a Promise

search('Node.js', { quantity: 40 })
  .then(data => {
    const videos = data.results.filter(x => x.type === 'video');
    //do something...
  })  
  .catch(console.error);

setDefaultOptions(options)

• returns this

Options:

The default options are:

{
  language: 'en',
  location: 'US',
  quantity: 'all',
  requestsOptions: {}
}

The default quantity for a search is 20

The requestsOptions are passed directly to the http.request() (or https) method
here you can see which can be

And here you can see a list of valid locations and languages

When you pass options to a method, the options without value, will be taken from the default values

Notes:

• In an array of Thumbnails, the first will always be the bigger
• Some structures have a toString() method that returns the clear text in it, for others is an URL, like in an array of thumbnails

To-do

• A method to download videos
• Make typings and JSDoc
• Improve error handling
• A method to get info and videos from a channel
• Get comments from a video

Credits

• ytdl-core for the how to download a youtube video
• ytpl for the bases and the how-to
• This stack overflow post for the regex to get videos ID's from URL's