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youtube-scrapper

Download videos and get info on them aswell as searching and other features.

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Simply use npm i youtube-scrapper.

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const scrapper = require("youtube-scrapper")
const { createWriteStream } = require("fs")

async function main() {
    // Getting videos through query.
    const result = await scrapper.search("best hits 2010")

    console.log(result.videos.map(vid => vid.details.title)) // Array of videos mapped by name.

    // Downloading first result and piping to a file.
    // We have to get the full song info first.
    const video = await scrapper.getVideoInfo(result.videos[0].id)

    // Write to file.
    scrapper
        .downloadFromVideo(video)
        .pipe(createWriteStream("./song.ogg"))
}

main()

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Package last updated on 20 Apr 2022

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