Python function for searching for youtube videos to avoid using their heavily rate-limited API
To avoid using the API, this uses the form on the youtube homepage and scrapes the resulting page.
For a basic search (and all of the current functionality), you can use the search tool as follows:
pip install youtube-search
from youtube_search import YoutubeSearch
results = YoutubeSearch('search terms', max_results=10).to_json()
print(results)
# returns a json string
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results = YoutubeSearch('search terms', max_results=10).to_dict()
print(results)
# returns a dictionary
FAQs
Perform YouTube video searches without the API
We found that youtube-search 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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