Video information and statistics fetching
Playlist information and videos
Search functions (with type filters)
Like & subscriptions API coverage (videos, channels, playlists)
Comment API coverage (partial, only for videos)
Simple User Authentication using OAuth2 (allows Private Videos) *1
Built on one of the latest versions
Typescript types (for most things)
Support for a wide variety of plattforms, due to optional adapter support for HTTP fetching and storage access

*1 This does not require an API Key. It uses extracted keys from the YouTube TV App.

Usage

Please look at the Basic Example

To-Do

I will do my best to keep up the work on this project, any pull requests or contributions in any way (e.g feature suggestions) are welcome.

Current Todo List

This API was originally designed for IonicTube (an alternative YT App)

Credits

@pytube for the authentication method: https://github.com/pytube/pytube
@ytdl-org for the consent confirmation: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/
@Microsoft with Visual Studio Code for development: https://code.visualstudio.com/
@Google for their API and Chrome Dev Tools to analyse it :)
@TeamNewPipe for the signature code (from: https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor)
@Anarios for the Return-YT-Dislike API (https://github.com/Anarios/return-youtube-dislike)
@Ajayyy for the Sponsorblock API (https://sponsor.ajay.app/)

Disclaimers

This project is not affiliated or linked to Google/YouTube in any way
This project does not contain any unofficial source code
This project is created for educational use only!
All mentioned brands and trademarks (e.g "Google" & "YouTube") are the property of their lawful owners

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Last updated on 25 May 2022

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