XCDYouTubeKit is a YouTube video player for iOS, tvOS and macOS.
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- Runs on iOS 8.0 and later
- Runs on macOS 10.9 and later
- Runs on tvOS 9.0 and later
XCDYouTubeKit is against the YouTube Terms of Service. The only official way of playing a YouTube video inside an app is with a web view and the iframe player API. Unfortunately, this is very slow and quite ugly, so I wrote this player to give users a better viewing experience.
XCDYouTubeKit is available through CocoaPods, Carthage and Swift Package Manager.
CocoaPods:
pod "XCDYouTubeKit", "~> 2.14"
Carthage:
github "0xced/XCDYouTubeKit" ~> 2.14
Swift Package Manager:
Add XCDYouTubeKit
to the dependencies value of your Package.swift
dependencies: [
.package(url: "https://github.com/0xced/XCDYouTubeKit.git", from: "2.14.0")
]
Alternatively, you can manually use the provided static library or dynamic framework. In order to use the static library, you must:
- Create a workspace (File → New → Workspace…)
- Add your project to the workspace
- Add the XCDYouTubeKit project to the workspace
- Drag and drop the
libXCDYouTubeKit.a
file referenced from XCDYouTubeKit → Products → libXCDYouTubeKit.a into the Link Binary With Libraries build phase of your app’s target.
These steps will ensure that #import <XCDYouTubeKit/XCDYouTubeKit.h>
will work properly in your project.
XCDYouTubeKit is fully documented.
AVPlayerViewController *playerViewController = [AVPlayerViewController new];
[self presentViewController:playerViewController animated:YES completion:nil];
__weak AVPlayerViewController *weakPlayerViewController = playerViewController;
[[XCDYouTubeClient defaultClient] getVideoWithIdentifier:videoIdentifier completionHandler:^(XCDYouTubeVideo * _Nullable video, NSError * _Nullable error) {
if (video)
{
NSDictionary *streamURLs = video.streamURLs;
NSURL *streamURL = streamURLs[XCDYouTubeVideoQualityHTTPLiveStreaming] ?: streamURLs[@(XCDYouTubeVideoQualityHD720)] ?: streamURLs[@(XCDYouTubeVideoQualityMedium360)] ?: streamURLs[@(XCDYouTubeVideoQualitySmall240)];
weakPlayerViewController.player = [AVPlayer playerWithURL:streamURL];
[weakPlayerViewController.player play];
}
else
{
[self dismissViewControllerAnimated:YES completion:nil];
}
}];
NSString *videoIdentifier = @"9bZkp7q19f0"; // A 11 characters YouTube video identifier
[[XCDYouTubeClient defaultClient] getVideoWithIdentifier:videoIdentifier completionHandler:^(XCDYouTubeVideo *video, NSError *error) {
if (video)
{
// Do something with the `video` object
}
else
{
// Handle error
}
}];
On iOS, you can use the class XCDYouTubeVideoPlayerViewController
the same way you use a MPMoviePlayerViewController
, except you initialize it with a YouTube video identifier instead of a content URL.
- (void) playVideo
{
XCDYouTubeVideoPlayerViewController *videoPlayerViewController = [[XCDYouTubeVideoPlayerViewController alloc] initWithVideoIdentifier:@"9bZkp7q19f0"];
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self selector:@selector(moviePlayerPlaybackDidFinish:) name:MPMoviePlayerPlaybackDidFinishNotification object:videoPlayerViewController.moviePlayer];
[self presentMoviePlayerViewControllerAnimated:videoPlayerViewController];
}
- (void) moviePlayerPlaybackDidFinish:(NSNotification *)notification
{
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] removeObserver:self name:MPMoviePlayerPlaybackDidFinishNotification object:notification.object];
MPMovieFinishReason finishReason = [notification.userInfo[MPMoviePlayerPlaybackDidFinishReasonUserInfoKey] integerValue];
if (finishReason == MPMovieFinishReasonPlaybackError)
{
NSError *error = notification.userInfo[XCDMoviePlayerPlaybackDidFinishErrorUserInfoKey];
// Handle error
}
}
XCDYouTubeVideoPlayerViewController *videoPlayerViewController = [[XCDYouTubeVideoPlayerViewController alloc] initWithVideoIdentifier:@"9bZkp7q19f0"];
[videoPlayerViewController presentInView:self.videoContainerView];
[videoPlayerViewController.moviePlayer play];
See the demo project for more sample code.
Since version 2.2.0, XCDYouTubeKit produces logs. XCDYouTubeKit supports CocoaLumberjack but does not require it.
See the XCDYouTubeLogger
class documentation for more information.
The URL extraction algorithms in XCDYouTubeKit are inspired by the YouTube extractor module of the youtube-dl project.
Cédric Luthi
XCDYouTubeKit is available under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for more information.