Youtubetobibtex

Youtubetobibtex is a small library to export information from a YouTube video in a bibtex format.

The bibtex looks like :

@online{video:tomscott2019,
    title = {Why Electronic Voting Is Still A Bad Idea},
    date = {2019},
    organization = {YouTube},
    author = {Tom Scott},
    url = {https://youtube.com/watch?v=LkH2r-sNjQs},
}

(example with the video https://www.youtube.com/watch\?v=v=LkH2r-sNjQs).

Youtubetobibtex is available online at : https://pypi.org/project/youtubetobibtex/

Usage

The documentation can be found at : https://youtubetobibtex.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Class usage

The main part of the code is the YoutubetobibtexClient class. It implements methods to easily retrieve the bibtex

In [1]: from youtubetobibtex import YoutubetobibtexClient
In [2]: client = YoutubetobibtexClient("secret")
In [3]: client.check() # check if the client is correctly connected to google api
Out[3]: True
In [4]: video_id = client.get_video_id("https://www.youtube.com/watch\?v=v=LkH2r-sNjQs") # get id from url. several schemes of url are supported
In [5]: video_id                                     
Out[5]: 'LkH2r-sNjQs'
In [6]: client.get_bibtex(video_id) # get bibtex
Out[6]: '\n@online{video:tomscott2019,\n    title = {Why Electronic Voting Is Still A Bad Idea},\n    date = {2019},\n    organization = {YouTube},\n    author = {Tom Scott},\n    url = {https://youtube.com/watch?v=LkH2r-sNjQs},\n}\n  

The secret refers at the API key.

Cli usage

There is a command line interface shipped with youtubetobibtex. It can be used as follows :

youtubetobibtex https://youtube.com/watch?v=LkH2r-sNjQs secret

You can also use the python script :

python3 youtubetobibtex/cli.py https://youtube.com/watch?v=LkH2r-sNjQs secret

TODO

• Allow to enable more information in the bibtex, using options in the class
• Allow the command line interface to get the api key form file
• Properly close the socket if the api key is wrong

Run the tests

Command to run the tests :

python3 setup.py

or with coverage

coverage run --source=youtubetobibtex/ setup.py test