XMLTubeInfoFetcher

XMLTubeInfoFetch is a lightweight Node.js app/function designed to effortlessly retrieve basic video and channel details from the legacy XML-based YouTube API, simplifying data access and integration.

• Simple, Light and Basic to use.
• No API Key needed.
• Parse YouTube XML API to JSON.
• Easy to implement everywhere.
• Two main libraries only: Axios and XML2JS

Table of Content

• About
• How can I use it?

About

Some of you may be asking why this simple project is using an inappropriate YouTube API.

YouTube's current API sucks for me in these ways:

• First, the Youtube Oficial API need a API Key.
• Secound, there's a lot of Limits to make requests to their API.
• Third, Rate Limits are Crazy.
• Fourth, I need a very basic API Wrapper, just for fetch basic information, I already tryed the oficial wrappers on, but it's very stressful having to create an API Key for such a small project.
• Fifth, I started these project for an Discord Youtube Notification's Bot. If i use current v3 of YouTube API, I will spam and get Rated Limited every time for checking if there's a new video from a YouTube Channel. I tryed these a long time ago and I just forfeit. I watch a lot of popular Discord Bots getting rated limited by youtube and yeah.....

How can I use it?

Like i sayed before, it's pretty simple to use it.

1. Download the project be:

   1. git clone https://github.com/GuikiPT/XMLTubeInfoFetcher.git if you have git installed.

   2. Or clicking on <> Code and after in Download Zip.

   If you download as zip, you need to uncompress the file!.

2. Open the folder of the project.

3. Make sure you have Node.JS installed, and if not, install it: NodeJS Download Website Page.

4. Inside the project folder, open a terminal (Bash for Linux and CMD or PowerShell for Windows, don't ask me for MacOs, because I not have one to test, but if you want to give me one I really appreciate 😊)

5. Install necessary modules be doing npm install.

6. On the main.js edit the const channel_id = ''; with the desired YouTube Channel Id.

7. Simply execute the project be doing npm start or npm main.js;

8. They will retrieve an console log with information about the channel and latest videos:

{
    "author": {
        "name": "Name of the YouTube Channel - String",
        "url": "Url for YouTube Channel - String",
        "id": "Id of the YouTube Channel - String",
        "created_at": 1231313213 # Created Channel Timestammp - Number - Unix Time
    },
    "videos": [
        {
            "channel_id": "Id of the YouTube Channel - String",
            "video_id": "Id of the YouTube Video - String",
            "title": "The Title of the YouTube Video - String",
            "url": "Url for YouTube Video - String",
            "description": "The YouTube Video Description - String",
            "thumbails": {
                "default": "Default Thumbnail Image Url - String",
                "hq_default": "High Quality Thumbnail Image Url - String",
                "mq_default": "Medium Quality Thumbnail Image Url - String",
                "sd_default": "Standard Quality Thumbnail Image Url - String",
                "max_res_default": "Maximum Resolution Quality Thumbnail Image Url - String",
            },
            "community": {
                "star_rating" {
                    "count": 123, # Number of Likes - Number
                    "average": 123, # Average number of likes - Number
                    "min": 123, # ?? - Number
                    "max": 123 # ?? - Number
                }
            },
            "published_at": 12312321123, # Video Published Time - Number - Unix Time
            "lastUpdate_at": 12312312312, # Last Video Update Status Time - Number - Time
        },
        {
            ...
        }
    ]
}

See?

It's EZ PZ to get basic information about.