aiotube 1.7.2

Access YouTube Public Data without YouTube API

aiotube

A library to access YouTube Public Data without YouTubeAPI

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• GitHub

• REST API (BETA)

Table of Contents

• Installation

• Building

• Quick Start

• Usage

• Channel

• Video

• Playlist

Installing

Python 3.6 or higher is required

# Linux/macOS
python3 -m pip install -U aiotube

# Windows
python -m pip install -U aiotube

Build from source

pip install git+https://github.com/jnsougata/aiotube

Quick Start

import aiotube


channel = aiotube.Channel('UCU9FEimjiOV3zN_5kujbCMQ')
print(channel.metadata)  # channel metadata in dict format


video = aiotube.Video('WVDT4lSozHk')
print(video.metadata)  # video metadata in dict format


playlist = aiotube.Playlist('PL-xXQjd8X_Q-xXQjd8X_Q-xXQjd8X_Q-')
print(playlist.metadata)  # playlist metadata in dict format


search = aiotube.Search.video('YouTube Rewind 2018')
print(search.metadata)  # searched video metadata in dict format


search = aiotube.Search.channel('PewDiePie')
print(search.metadata)  # searched channel metadata in dict format


search = aiotube.Search.playlist('Unlock Your Third Eye')
print(search.metadata)  # searched playlist metadata in dict format

Usage

Channel

Method	Return Type	Description
live()	bool	Returns True if the channel is live
streaming_now()	Video	Returns the video the channel is streaming now
current_streams()	List[str]	Returns a list of ids of currently streaming videos
old_streams()	List[str]	Returns a list of ids of previously streaming videos
video_count()	int	Returns the number of videos uploaded by the channel
upcoming()	Video	Returns a video object of the upcoming video
upcomings()	List[str]	Returns a list of ids of upcoming videos
playlists()	List[str]	Returns a Playlist object
uploads(limit: int)	List[str]	Returns a list of video ids of the uploaded videos
last_uploaded()	Video	Video object of the most recently uploaded video
last_streamed()	Video	Video object of the most recently streamed video

Properties	Return Types	Description
metadata	dict	Returns the metadata of the channel in dict format

Video

Properties	Return Types	Description
metadata	Dict[str, Any]	dictionary of video metadata

Playlist

Property	Return Type	Description
metadata	Dict[str, Any]	dictionary of playlist metadata

Search

Methods	Return Types	Description
channel(name: str)	Channel	Channel object of the channel with the given keywords
video(name: str)	Video	Video object of the video with the given keywords
playlist(name: str)	Playlist	Playlist object of the playlist with the given keywords
channels(name: str, limit: int)	List[str]	list of channel ids of the channels found with the given keywords
videos(name: str, limit: int)	List[str]	list of video ids of the videos found with the given keywords
playlists(name: str, limit: int)	List[str]	list of playlist ids of the playlists found with the given keywords