#youtube #chat #real-time #live #comments #interface #fetching

youtube_chat

provides Rust interface of fetching youtube live chat comments

7 releases

0.2.1 Jul 17, 2023
0.2.0 Jul 13, 2023
0.1.4 Feb 23, 2023

#697 in Web programming

29 downloads per month
Used in yadio

MIT license

43KB
1K SLoC

how to use

build client

build from url or live_id or channel_id

// pattern 1
let mut client = LiveClientBuilder::new()
    .url("https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfKfPfyJRdk".to_string())
    .unwrap()
    .build();
// pattern 2
let mut client = LiveChatClientBuilder::new()
    .live_id("jfKfPfyJRd".to_string())
    .build();
// pattern 3
let mut client = LiveChatClientBuilder::new()
    .channel_id("UCHVXbQzkl3rDfsXWo8xi2qw".to_string())
    .build();

add callback function (each callback function is optional)

  • on_start
  • on_chat
  • on_end
  • on_error
let mut client = LiveChatClientBuilder::new()
    .url("https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dx5qFachd3A".to_string())
    .unwrap()
    .on_start(|_live_id| {})
    .on_error(|_err| {})
    .on_chat(|_chat_item| {})
    .on_end(|| {})
    .build();

get ready for fetching live

client.start().await.unwrap();

fetch chat comments

client.execute().await;

call execute intervally if you want to fetch comments in real time

Example using tokio

use std::time::Duration;

use tokio::{task, time};
use youtube_chat::live_chat::LiveChatClientBuilder;

#[tokio::main]
async fn main() {
    let mut client = LiveChatClientBuilder::new()
        .url("https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfKfPfyJRdk".to_string())
        .unwrap()
        .on_chat(|chat_item| println!("{:?}", chat_item.message))
        .on_error(|error| eprintln!("{:?}", error))
        .build();
    client.start().await.unwrap();
    let forever = task::spawn(async move {
        let mut interval = time::interval(Duration::from_millis(3000));
        loop {
            interval.tick().await;
            client.execute().await;
        }
    });

    forever.await.unwrap();
}

Dependencies

~7–23MB
~327K SLoC