youtube-websearch 1.0.1

searches youtube for videos without using the official api

youtube websearch libary

• no api key required
• no api limit

search through via web scraping

if you know how to test something like this, feel free to make as issue/pull request

Example Usage

open we will rock you in a webbrowser:

import youtube_websearch as yt
import webbrowser

yt_basis = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v="

search_results = yt.search('we will rock you')
# search_results = yt.search('we will rock you', useragent="something")  # you can set your own useragent
videoId = search_results[0]["videoId"]

webbrowser.open(yt_basis + videoId)

pip install youtube-websearch

this libary provides multiple depths of search:

video_search

This function only returns the videos with this data:

• videoId
• title
• publishedTimeText
• lengthText
• viewCountText

if you need more videodata like thumbnails etc. use messy_video_search if you think there is data this function should return, feel free and make a issue/pull request

messy_video_search

This functions returns the plain video search data.

if you need meta information about your search use plain_search

plain_search

This function returns the whole search json. its a very messy thing with a lot of irrelevant data