zyrouge / node-youtube-ext

A simple YouTube scraper.

YouTube Extractor

A simple YouTube scraper.

⚠️ YouTube stream data is decoded by evaluating arbitrary JavaScript code. By default, youtube-ext uses eval or node:vm. Please install isolated-vm or @ohmyvm/vm to prevent security issues.

Features

• Faster and Better! (comparison)
• Supports YouTube stream generation.
• Supports YouTube search.
• Supports YouTube video information.
• Supports YouTube playlist information.
• Supports YouTube channel information.
• No key required!

Installation

npm install youtube-ext

Usage

const ytext = require("youtube-ext");
// or
import ytext from "youtube-ext";
// or
import { ... } from "youtube-ext";

Examples can be found here!

Links

• Documentation
• NPM
• GitHub

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License

MIT