mirazmac/youscrape

Unofficial Public YouTube Scrapper

YouScrape

YouTube Public Data Scrapper, _(*1)

YouScrape is an unofficial replacement of YouTube Data API v3 for retrieving YouTube public data. Currently it can scrape channels, videos, playlists and single video information., _(*2)

Install via Composer

composer require mirazmac/youscrape

Limitations

• You can't limit or change the amount of results per page
• It depends on YouTube's internal ajax endpoints, as a result it can only show the information the endpoint provides.
• Its illegal and YouTube may block your IP if you send too many requests

Usage

Check examples folder for complete usage examples., _(*3)

Searching Videos

use MirazMac\YouScrape\YouScrape;

$youtube = new YouScrape;

try {
    $videos = $youtube->videos('Honest Trailer');
} catch (\Exception $e) {
    echo $e->getMessage();
    exit;
}

print_r($videos->getAll());

Fetching Information of a Single Video

use MirazMac\YouScrape\YouScrape;

$youtube = new YouScrape;

try {
    $single = $youtube->single('V7h01x1oiQs');
} catch (\Exception $e) {
    echo $e->getMessage();
    exit;
}

var_dump($single);

Searching Channels

use MirazMac\YouScrape\YouScrape;

$youtube = new YouScrape;

try {
    $channels = $youtube->channels('Entertainment');
} catch (\Exception $e) {
    echo $e->getMessage();
    exit;
}

print_r($channels->getAll());

Searching Playlists

use MirazMac\YouScrape\YouScrape;

$youtube = new YouScrape;

try {
    $playlists = $youtube->playlists('Entertainment');
} catch (\Exception $e) {
    echo $e->getMessage();
    exit;
}

print_r($playlists->getAll());

Todos

• Implement tests
• Run a benchmark to see if it gets blocked on too heavy requests
• Better and complete documentation