bhavyasruthi / YoutubeAPI-Node.js

YoutubeAPI-Node.js

This project demonstrates how to use "Youtube" API. We used npm package "youtube-node" in this project to work with Youtube API and get data from it.

Installing youtube-node using npm

For use CLI need install youtube-node using -g param. $ npm install youtube-node -g

Accessing API

1. Import npm package in you file using require() var YouTube = require('youtube-node');
2. Create instance for YouTube to access all of its methods by var youTube = new YouTube();
3. Set you API Key in this instance to get authorized inorder to access Youtube API's. In order to create your API Key please refer to this link https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/getting-started youTube.setKey('');// Add your Youtube API key
4. After setting API Key we can access Youtube API methods as -

• search (search term, num results, params, callback) return object
• getById (youtube id, result) return object
• related (youtube id, maxResults, result) return object

5. We can directly access Youtube API without using npm package "youtube-node", but I used this package as it makes my task easy by simple methods.

Displaying output

1. For example, we used search API in yotube to list matched data according to given string/ expression. youTube.search('Titanic Trailer', 2, function(error, result))
2. Every API's use node callback feature to access result/ error. Catch error if any or process data to the output if success.
3. We diplayed output of search API using response object in node by send method. res.send(JSON.stringify(result))