youtube-scraping-api 0.0.2

A scraper for everything on YouTube

YouTube-Scraping-API

An easy-to-use YouTube API, without any kind of quota. I'm still working on it, so stay tuned for the updates to come.

Documentation

Importing The API

from YouTubeAPI import YouTubeAPI
api = YouTubeAPI()

Search

Returns a collection of search results that match the query parameters specified in the API request.

api.search(query=None, continuation_token=None)

query: The query string of your search
continuation_token: a token for continuing the search. You will find it at the very end of every search result JSON.

Playlist

Returns a collection of items and metadata of playlists that match the API request parameters.

api.playlist(playlistId=None, continuation_token=None, parseAll=True)

playlistId: The ID of playlist you want. You can find it at the url of the playlist page.
continuation_token: a token for continuing the search. You will find it at the very end of search result JSON if parseAll=False.
parseAll: Parse all items in the playlist. Default set to True.

Channel (working)

Returns a collection data of channel resources that match the request criteria.

api.channel(channelId=None, username=None)

channelId: The ID of channel.
username: The username of channel user.