YouTube Metadata normal grabs singular details about a video and its uploader.
Note: This extension works in Laravel 8 and Laravel 9.
Run the command: composer require khaleejinfotech/youtube-data-api-laravel to download the package into the Laravel platform.
After you have installed the package, open your Laravel config file config/app.php and add the following lines.
In the $providers array add the service providers for this package.
Khaleejinfotech\YoutubeDataApi\YoutubeDataApiServiceProvider::class,
Publish the config file with
php artisan vendor:publish --tag="youtube_data_api"
Open the config/youtube_data_api.php in any text editor and add your api key obtained from google developer console.
<?php
return [
'key' => env('YOUTUBE_DATA_API')
];Create a TestController in Laravel using the below command line
php artisan make:controller TestController
Open the app/Http/Controllers/TestController.php in any text editor. To use IP2Location, add the below lines into the controller file.
<?php
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use Khaleejinfotech\YoutubeDataApi\YoutubeDataApi;
class TestController extends Controller
{
//Create a fetch function for display
public function fetch(){
// Try query the video metadata by video Id
$youtubeDataApi = new YoutubeDataApi();
$youtubeDataApi->setVideoID("cT1Df9lpYw8");
$videoData= $youtubeDataApi->fetch();
echo 'VideoID : ' . $videoData->videoId . "<br>";
echo 'Title : ' . $videoData->title . "<br>";
echo 'Description : ' . $videoData->description . "<br>";
echo 'Channel Title : ' . $videoData->channelTitle . "<br>";
echo 'Published At : ' . $videoData->publishedAt ;
$thumbnails = $videoData->thumbnails; // Returns array of different thumbnail sizes.
$defaultImageUrl = $thumbnails->default->url;
$defaultImageWidth = $thumbnails->default->width;
$defaultImageHeight = $thumbnails->default->height;
$mediumImageUrl = $thumbnails->medium->url;
$mediumImageWidth = $thumbnails->medium->width;
$mediumImageHeight = $thumbnails->medium->height;
$highImageUrl = $thumbnails->high->url;
$highImageWidth = $thumbnails->high->width;
$highImageHeight = $thumbnails->high->height;
}
}Add the following line into the routes/web.php file.
Route::get('test', [TestController::class,'fetch');
Enter the URL localhost:8000/test and run. You should see the metadata of videoID cT1Df9lpYw8.