Get specified video info without YouTube Data API on GAS.
Due to my side project HoloDDer, I notice that the big costs of search with YouTube Data API. Projects that enable the YouTube Data API have a default quota allocation of 10,000 units per day. Different types of operations have different quota costs. For example:
- A read operation that retrieves a list of resources -- channels, videos, playlists -- usually costs 1 unit.
- A write operation that creates, updates, or deletes a resource usually has costs 50 units.
- A search request costs 100 units.
- A video upload costs 1600 units.
There are some requests for crawling specified video info in my side project which will results in exceeding YouTube Data API quota limit. So I spend a little time to implement it with UrlFetchApp service.
| Search By | YouTube Data API | UrlFetchApp |
|---|---|---|
| costs / limits | 100 / 10,000 per day | 1 / 20,000 per day |
If you have Google Workspace account, the quota of UrlFetchApp will be 100,000 per day.
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Create YouTubeVideo object.
//const video = SubTube.video("https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyI6JILCjVA");
const video = SubTube.video("https://youtu.be/NyI6JILCjVA");Value of video.meta will be false with fetch failure.
if(video.meta) console.log(video.title());- video(): Create YouTubeVideo object.
- YouTubeVideo
- Properties
- url: video url
- meta: JSON object
- methods
- title(): @return {String} title of YouTube video
- views(): @return {String} views count of YouTube video
- likes(): @return {String} likes count of YouTube video
- chName(): @return {String} channel name of YouTube video
- chUrl(): @return {String} channel url of YouTube video
- chAvatarS(): @return {String} channel avatar(small, 48x48) url of YouTube video
- chAvatarM(): @return {String} channel avatar(medium, 88x88) url of YouTube video
- chAvatarL(): @return {String} channel avatar(large, 176x176) url of YouTube video
- chSubscribers(): @return {String} channel subscribers count of YouTube video
- Properties