youtubei.js
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A JavaScript client for YouTube's private API
YouTube.js is a JavaScript client for YouTube's private API, known as "InnerTube". It allows you to interact with YouTube programmatically, providing access to videos, comments, live chats, streaming data and more. It works seamlessly across Node.js, Deno, and modern browsers.
Before installing, make sure your environment meets the prerequisites.
# NPM
npm install youtubei.js@latest
# Yarn
yarn add youtubei.js@latest
# Git (edge version)
npm install github:LuanRT/YouTube.js
Deno:
import { Innertube } from 'https://deno.land/x/youtubei/deno.ts';
// const { Innertube } = require('youtubei.js');
import { Innertube } from 'youtubei.js';
const innertube = await Innertube.create(/* options */);
For detailed usage, check out the YouTube.js Guide and API Documentation.
We welcome all contributions, issues and feature requests, whether small or large. If you want to contribute, feel free to check out our issues page and our guidelines.
This project is not affiliated with, endorsed, or sponsored by YouTube or any of its affiliates or subsidiaries. All trademarks, logos, and brand names used in this project are the property of their respective owners and are used solely to describe the services provided.
As such, any usage of trademarks to refer to such services is considered nominative use. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact me.
Distributed under the MIT License.
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A JavaScript client for YouTube's private API, known as InnerTube.
The npm package youtubei.js receives a total of 22,973 weekly downloads. As such, youtubei.js popularity was classified as popular.
We found that youtubei.js demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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