me-diru / youtube_fetcher

an API to fetch latest videos sorted in reverse chronological order of their publishing date-time from YouTube for a given tag/search query in a paginated response.

youtube_fetcher

an API to fetch latest videos sorted in reverse chronological order of their publishing date-time from YouTube for a given tag/search query in a paginated response.

Installation Steps

• Create a virtual environment python3 -m venv venv
• Install required dependencies using pip3 install -r requirements.txt
• To run the API, use flask run
• Update YOUTUBE_DATA_API_KEY at app/config to run background process
• To run the background process of storing latest youtube video details, open other terminal and run hypercorn background_process:asgi_app
• NOTE: Specify your own API key if limit reaches

Docker

If using docker, follow the steps below

• To build, docker build -t youtube-fetcher .

• To run, docker run -p 5000:5000 -p 8000:8000 youtube-fetcher

Checking application

The API comes with two endpoints:

• /v1/fetch_stored_youtube_videos to get which returns the stored video data in a paginated response sorted in descending order of published datetime.
  • Test using, by default gives 5 response

  curl http://localhost:5000/v1/fetch_stored_youtube_videos?start=4
  
  

  • Output:
• /v1/search To search matching the youtube videos data in the database
  • Test using

  curl http://localhost:5000/v1/search?search_string=semi%20-%20final
  
  

  • Output: