Youtube Info

Purpose

A Node.js module that fetches meta information about YouTube videos. The information is scraped directly from the YouTube website, so no need for a Google API-key.

This project is in no way affiliated with YouTube.

Installation

Install as a module via npm.

$ npm install youtube-info-ant

Usage

http//www.youtube.com/watch?v={videoId}

var fetchVideoInfo = require('youtube-info');
fetchVideoInfo(videoId, cb);

or for different languages:

fetchVideoInfo(videoId, {language: 'fr'}, cb);

Parameter	Meaning
videoId	ID of youtube Video
params	(optional) language option
callback	(optional) callback function

Promises API

var fetchVideoInfo = require('youtube-info');
fetchVideoInfo('{videoId}').then(function (videoInfo) {
  console.log(videoInfo);
});

Callback API

var fetchVideoInfo = require('youtube-info');
fetchVideoInfo('{videoId}', function (err, videoInfo) {
  if (err) throw new Error(err);
  console.log(videoInfo);
});

Result

{
  videoId: '{video Id}',
  url: '{video url}',
  language: '{language from input option}',
  title: '{video title}',
  description: '{video description as HTML}',
  owner: '{video owner}',
  channelId: '{owner channel id}',
  thumbnailUrl: '{video thumbnail url}',
  embedURL: '{video embed url}',
  datePublished: '{video publication date}',
  genre: '{video genre}',
  paid: {true/false},
  unlisted: {true/false},
  isFamilyFriendly: {true/false},
  duration: {video duration in seconds},
  views: {number of views},
  regionsAllowed: [ '{two letter country code}', ... ],
  commentCount: {number of comments},
  likeCount: {number of likes},
  dislikeCount: {number of dislikes},
  channelThumbnailUrl: {channel thumbnail url},
  "tags": [{array of tags}],
}