Search youtube via this simple ruby api

• simple
• no dependencies

Install

sudo gem install youtube_search

Or

rails plugin install git://github.com/grosser/youtube_search.git

Usage

YoutubeSearch.search('boat').first
{
  "title"=>"Killer Whale Imitates Boat Motor",
  "published"=>"2011-09-29T15:30:43.000Z",
  "id"=>"http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/0b2U5r7Jwkc",
  "video_id"=>"0b2U5r7Jwkc",
  "content"=>"Top YouTube Videos on ...",
  "updated"=>"2011-10-13T20:20:54.000Z",
  "raw" => <REXML::Element ... >,
  "embeddable" => true,
  ...
}

page / per_page are supported

YoutubeSearch.search('cats', :page => 10, :per_page => 4).first

and standard youtube options

YoutubeSearch.search('cats', 'time' => 'this_week', 'orderby' => 'viewCount').first

I can haz iframe:

# DISCLAIMER this iframe may steal 4 minutes of your life ;)
id = YoutubeSearch.search('lolcats').first['video_id']
%{<iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/#{id}" width=640 height=480 frameborder=0></iframe>}

Searching playlists

YoutubeSearch.search_playlists('cats').first

Retrieve videos by playlist ID

videos = YoutubeSearch.playlist_videos('5F23DAF4BFE3D14C')

TODO

• more detailed xml parsing (you can fetch everything via 'raw', but more defaults would be nice)
• parse dates into ruby objects

Author

Contributors

• David Gil
• Jim Jones
• Sławek

Michael Grosser
[email protected]
Hereby placed under public domain, do what you want, just do not hold me accountable...