YouTube API

Package govidious implements a wrapper over the Invidious REST API v1, which is described in these documents: For each of the endpoints listed in those links, this module provides an API function which: Takes as many input arguments as needed depending on the endpoint. For example, the "/api/v1/stat" endpoint is represented by the "Stat()" API function which takes no arguments, while the "/api/v1/search" endpoint is represented by the "Search()" API function which takes many arguments (search query, date, duration, ...). Returns a structure that matches the JSON response associated to each endpoint. In order to use this package first create a new "InvidiousV1" instance using the "New()" function: ...then, simply call, on that object, the desired API function(s): For example, to get the URL of the most watched video featuring "kittens playing golf", you would do this: Notice that both URLs ("youtubeUrl" and "invidiousUrl") can be used on a web browser to actually watch the video. The main difference is that: Using "youtubeUrl" establishes a direct connection with YouTube servers. Using "invidiousUrl" might or might not establish a direct connection with YouTube servers, depending on how the Invidious server is configured. If you don't want to leave any trace of YouTube servers, make sure you use "InvidiousUrl" on an Invidious server configured to proxy video files. Another thing you can do with this URL ("youtubeUrl" or "invidiousUrl") is to use the "mpv" player to start watching the video directly, without needing a web browser. Under the hood, "mpv" uses "youtube-dl" (another program) to parse the web page, find the URL of the video file (which might change depending on the options you call "mpv" with, such as the desired quality) and download it. Well... the good news is that you don't need "mpv" nor "youtube-dl" to do all of this as the Invidious API can also be used to find out the URL of the video file once you have the "videoId". First, you obtain all the associated data of the desired video: ...then you inspect the returned structure to find the URL of the video with the desired quality level: There are many other things you can do with this package, such as listing all the videos from a given channel, retrieving the subtitles associated to a video, etc... Check the documentation of each function (and the name of the fields of the structures they return) for more details.

Package ytsearch: search for YouTube videos, channels & playlists. Without YouTube Data API.

Package youtube-dl-go wraps youtube-dl's Python API. youtube-dl-go is a simple wrapper to the popular youtube-dl application for Python. This allows you to access the youtube-dl binary programmatically in any application that you write.