niyasrahman / gatsby-source-youtube

Gatsby source to fetch data from the Youtube Data API

gatsby-source-youtube

A gatsby source plugin for fetching videos for a Youtube channel by channel ID.

Learn more about Gatsby plugins and how to use them here: https://www.gatsbyjs.org/docs/plugins/

Install

npm install --save gatsby-source-youtube

gatsby-config.js

plugins: [
  {
    resolve: `gatsby-source-youtube`,
    options: {
      channelId: '<<Youtube channelID eg. UCK8sQmJBp8GCxrOtXWBpyEA >>',
      apiKey: '<< Add your Youtube api key here>>',
      maxVideos: 50 // Defaults to 50
    },
  },
  ...
]

Examples of how to query:

Get all the videos:

{
  allYoutubeVideo {
    edges {
      node {
        id
        title
        description
        videoId
        publishedAt
        privacyStatus
      }
    }
  }
}

Schema

title : The title of the Youtube video

description : The description of the Youtube video

videoId : The id for the video on Youtube, can be used to make a url to the video or to embed it

publishedAt : The date the video was published.

privacyStatus : The privacy status of the video, public, private, or unlisted

thumbnail : The information about the largest thumbnail available on Youtube. Sub-properties: url, width, height

localThumbnail : The information about the locally saved thumbnail. Works with gatsby-image