Youtubetobibtex is a small library to export information from a YouTube video in a bibtex format.
The bibtex looks like :
@online{video:tomscott2019,
title = {Why Electronic Voting Is Still A Bad Idea},
date = {2019},
organization = {YouTube},
author = {Tom Scott},
url = {https://youtube.com/watch?v=LkH2r-sNjQs},
}
(example with the video https://www.youtube.com/watch\?v=v=LkH2r-sNjQs).
Youtubetobibtex is available online at : https://pypi.org/project/youtubetobibtex/
The documentation can be found at : https://youtubetobibtex.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
The main part of the code is the YoutubetobibtexClient class. It implements methods to easily retrieve the bibtex
In [1]: from youtubetobibtex import YoutubetobibtexClient
In [2]: client = YoutubetobibtexClient("secret")
In [3]: client.check() # check if the client is correctly connected to google api
Out[3]: True
In [4]: video_id = client.get_video_id("https://www.youtube.com/watch\?v=v=LkH2r-sNjQs") # get id from url. several schemes of url are supported
In [5]: video_id
Out[5]: 'LkH2r-sNjQs'
In [6]: client.get_bibtex(video_id) # get bibtex
Out[6]: '\n@online{video:tomscott2019,\n title = {Why Electronic Voting Is Still A Bad Idea},\n date = {2019},\n organization = {YouTube},\n author = {Tom Scott},\n url = {https://youtube.com/watch?v=LkH2r-sNjQs},\n}\n
The secret refers at the API key.
There is a command line interface shipped with youtubetobibtex. It can be used as follows :
youtubetobibtex https://youtube.com/watch?v=LkH2r-sNjQs secret
You can also use the python script :
python3 youtubetobibtex/cli.py https://youtube.com/watch?v=LkH2r-sNjQs secret
- Allow to enable more information in the bibtex, using options in the class
- Allow the command line interface to get the api key form file
- Properly close the socket if the api key is wrong
Command to run the tests :
python3 setup.py
or with coverage
coverage run --source=youtubetobibtex/ setup.py test