youtube-api-v3-search

YouTube Search Google API for Node.js and Browser

Search for YouTube videos, channels, playlists and live events via Google API

• Node.js using https and in the Browser using XMLHttpRequests

• Super light no third-party libraries Added browser-resolve for performance.

• Supports the Prmise API

• Thanks to @MaximVanhove for adding Support for CommonJS, AMD and global variable.

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Installing

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Using npm:

 npm install youtube-api-v3-search

Using cdn:

 
 
 <script src="https://unpkg.com/youtube-api-v3-search@1.2.1/dist/youtube-api-v3-search.min.js"></script> 
 
 

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Example Usage

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const searchYoutube = require('youtube-api-v3-search');

or

import searchYoutube from 'youtube-api-v3-search';
 

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Callbacks

 
/**
 * Searching YouTube.
 * @param {string} $YOUTUBE_KEY youtube api-key
 * @param {Object} $options search parameters.
 * @param {function} callback( @param error , @param result).  
 * @return {void} 
 */
 
searchYoutube($YOUTUBE_KEY,$options,callback);

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Promises Just don't callback and you'll get a Promise :)

 
// NOT passing callback as the 3rd argument it returns Promise
/**
 * Searching YouTube.
 * @param {string} $YOUTUBE_KEY youtube api-key
 * @param {Object} $options search parameters.
 * @return {Promise} The result of the search .
 */
 
searchYoutube($YOUTUBE_KEY,$options);

Async/Await

async () => {
  let result = await searchYoutube($YOUTUBE_KEY,options);
}

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Options

[options/parameters]

Search Options

The q parameter specifies the query term to search for.

The part parameter specifies a comma-separated list of one or more search resource properties that the API response will include. Set the parameter value to snippet.

The type parameter restricts a search query to only retrieve a particular type of resource. The value is a comma-separated list of resource types. The default value is video,channel,playlist.

Acceptable values are:

• channel
• playlist
• video

Example

 
const options = {
  q:'nodejs',
  part:'snippet',
  type:'video'
}

YouTube API Reference Search#parameters