joymon / youtube-proxy-api

Proxy api to hide the YouTube API internals and version changes

YouTube Proxy API

Proxy api to hide the YouTube API internals and version changes

Getting started

Just call the API with .api/{channel id}/videos

Sample API URL to get Channel videos https://youtube-proxy-api.herokuapp.com/api/channels/UCzYqSifCwLYpmgRxvNo7BzA/videos

Sample response

Currently it returns 3 records

[
    {
        id: "P7kBUPIsefg",
        title: "A Day at Spring Lake Day Camp, New Jersey 2019 - Part 3",
        description: "Thanks to my company for providing a family fun day in 2019 at Spring Lake Day Camp, New Jersey. This is the third part that ...",
        publishedAt: "2021-10-02T13:00:18Z"
    },
    {
        id: "rcCjWarrTro",
        title: "A Day at Spring Lake Day Camp, New Jersey 2019 - Part 2",
        description: "Thanks to my company for providing a family fun day in 2019 at Spring Lake Day Camp, New Jersey. This is the second part that ...",
        publishedAt: "2021-09-18T14:30:06Z"
    },
    {
        id: "Lin8ixSG5Oc",
        title: "A Day at Spring Lake Day Camp, New Jersey 2019 - Part 1",
        description: "Thanks to my company for providing a family fun day in 2019 at Sprint Lake Day Camp, New Jersey. This is the first part that ...",
        publishedAt: "2021-09-11T13:00:14Z"
    }
]

Use cases

• If the client doesn't support or have restrictions in keeping API key
• Abstract client from YouTube API changes. Currently YouTube API is in version 3 and APIs are considerably different.

Deployment

NodeJS application. You can host it anywhere.

• Currently hosted at Heroku
• It uses the Heroku pipeline to deploy.

Due to APi limits, the above deployment works only for certain channels. If you need to access for different channel, better host yourselves.