Youtube Utility

General purpose toolbox for working with Youtube.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'yt_util'

Usage notes will come in time. Feel free to look at the source code as it's rather short.

Methods available:

YtUtil::Scrape.raw_query(search, filters = "")
YtUtil::Scrape.query(search = nil, filters = "", &qry)
YtUtil::Scrape.raw_video_stats(video_code)
YtUtil::Scrape.video_stats(video_code = nil, &qry)
YtUtil::Scrape.raw_user_stats(username)
YtUtil::Scrape.user_stats(username = nil, &qry)
YtUtil::URL.generate(video_code, options = {})
YtUtil::URL.request(web_request)
YtUtil::GooglePlus.get_username(youtube_username)
YtUtil::Channel::URL.play_all(username)

Any scraping results may become unavailable at anytime if Youtube chooses to change their page layout. This library is designed to return nil for any data it fails to scrape.

This project will become more and more complete over time. Eventually the mapping of scraped data will be implemented intelligently instead of statically. This way when Youtube changes their site the code will compensate for the change. Feel free to contribute with this in mind.

Copyright (c) 2014 Daniel P. Clark

MIT License

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