Access public YouTube API feeds from your Node.js apps

This module relies heavily on YouTube Data API v2 which was deprecated on April 20th 2015 to be replaced by version 3 of their API. The code is not being maintained anymore.

It is recommended for all users to switch to a YouTube module with API v3 support.

See the Wiki for a working example: https://github.com/fvdm/nodejs-youtube/wiki

Stable: npm install youtube-feeds

Develop: npm install fvdm/youtube-feeds#develop

// load the module
var youtube = require('youtube-feeds')

// search parkour videos
youtube.feeds.videos( {q: 'parkour'}, console.log )

developerKey is required for some methods, ie. user.activity. You can also temporarily override the global setting with the key property in a method's vars.

var youtube = require ('youtube-feeds');
youtube.httpProtocol = 'https';
youtube.feeds.videos ({q: 'keywords'}, callback);

Each method takes a callback function as last parameter. When everything seems alright err is null, otherwise err will be instanceof Error for tracing.

function (err, data) {
	if (err) {
		console.log (err);
	} else {
		console.log (data);
	}
}

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Retrieve lists, search videos, related material.

Get a list of recently published or updated videos, or search them all, filter, sort, etc.

API docs: custom query parameters

youtube.feeds.videos (
	{
		q:              'parkour',
		'max-results':	2,
		orderby:        'published'
	},
	console.log
);

Output:

{ updated: '2012-06-18T17:55:11.294Z',
  totalItems: 6985,
  startIndex: 1,
  itemsPerPage: 2,
  items: 
   [ { id: 'WEeqHj3Nj2c',
       uploaded: '2006-06-08T01:17:06.000Z',
       updated: '2012-06-18T15:53:06.000Z',
       uploader: 'sauloca',
       category: 'Sports',
       title: 'Parkour and FreeRunning',
       description: 'Edited by: Saulo Sampson Chase [..]',
       tags: 
        [ 'le',
          'parkour',
          'free',
          'running' ],
       thumbnail: 
        { sqDefault: 'http://i.ytimg.com/vi/WEeqHj3Nj2c/default.jpg',
          hqDefault: 'http://i.ytimg.com/vi/WEeqHj3Nj2c/hqdefault.jpg' },
       player: 
        { default: 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEeqHj3Nj2c&feature=youtube_gdata_player',
          mobile: 'https://m.youtube.com/details?v=WEeqHj3Nj2c' },
       content: 
        { '1': 'rtsp://v8.cache8.c.youtube.com/CiILENy73wIaGQlnj809HqpHWBMYDSANFEgGUgZ2aWRlb3MM/0/0/0/video.3gp',
          '5': 'https://www.youtube.com/v/WEeqHj3Nj2c?version=3&f=videos&app=youtube_gdata',
          '6': 'rtsp://v8.cache8.c.youtube.com/CiILENy73wIaGQlnj809HqpHWBMYESARFEgGUgZ2aWRlb3MM/0/0/0/video.3gp' },
       duration: 218,
       geoCoordinates: { latitude: -7.100892543792725, longitude: -34.91455078125 },
       rating: 4.862864,
       likeCount: '85314',
       ratingCount: 88343,
       viewCount: 32718590,
       favoriteCount: 99541,
       accessControl: 
        { comment: 'denied',
          commentVote: 'allowed',
          videoRespond: 'moderated',
          rate: 'allowed',
          embed: 'allowed',
          list: 'allowed',
          autoPlay: 'allowed',
          syndicate: 'allowed' } } ] }

Get related videos for a video with videoid.

Get videos in response to videoid.

Get comments to a video. This is still in the original XML-to-JSON format as YouTube does not have JSON-C available for this feed. This may change in future (major) versions of this module.

Get a standard feed, such as most viewed or top rated videos. Worldwide, local or by subject (or a combination).

API docs: Standard feeds

Example: most recent videos worldwide:

youtube.feeds.standard ('most_recent', console.log);

Example: today's top-rated News videos in the Netherlands:

youtube.feeds.standard ('NL/top_rated_News', {time: 'today'}, console.log);

Get videos on a certain playlist.

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The video function provides shorthand methods for one specific video.

Same as video.details

youtube.video ('ern37eWDnT0', console.log);

Get details for one video.

youtube.video ('ern37eWDnT0').details (console.log);

Get related videos, same as feeds.related.

youtube.video ('ern37eWDnT0').related ({'max-results': 2}, console.log);

Get videos in response to one video, same as feeds.responses.

youtube.video ('ern37eWDnT0').responses ({'max-results': 2}, console.log);

Get comments to a video, same as feeds.comments.

youtube.video ('ern37eWDnT0').comments ({'max-results': 2}, console.log);

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Get (public) feed data for one specific user.

Same as user.profile.

youtube.user ('user', console.log);

Get user profile, in old XML-to-JSON style.

youtube.user ('user').profile (console.log);

Get the user's favorite videos. You can optionally filter the results like the other feeds.

youtube.user ('user').favorites (console.log);

Get user playlists. Use feeds.playlist to get the videos.

Get the user's uploaded videos.

youtube.user ('user').uploads (console.log);

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Directly talk to the API. This function takes care of connecting and calling the callback only when valid JSON is returned.

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