#command-line-tool #search #api-key #search-query #operator #parameters #google

bin+lib search-youtube

A simple command line tool and library to search youtube videos

2 releases

0.1.0 Feb 18, 2024

#1484 in Web programming

41 downloads per month

MIT license

29KB
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Youtube Search

https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/search/list

Warning: initial working out; it will change very frequently.

Usage

Set the environment variable YOUTUBE_API_KEY to a gcp api key with the youtube data api enabled. You can create a new api key at https://console.cloud.google.com/apis/credentials.

export YOUTUBE_API_KEY="YOUR_API_KEY"
cargo run --release -- -q "rust programming"

Description

This is a cli tool and library to search Youtube using the official Youtube API.

The q parameter specifies the query term to search for. Your request can also use the Boolean NOT (-) and OR (|) operators to exclude videos or to find videos that are associated with one of several search terms. For example, to search for videos matching either "boating" or "sailing", set the q parameter value to boating|sailing. Similarly, to search for videos matching either "boating" or "sailing" but not "fishing", set the q parameter value to boating|sailing -fishing. Note that the pipe character must be URL-escaped when it is sent in your API request. The URL-escaped value for the pipe character is %7C.

Dependencies

~8–23MB
~327K SLoC