Used within Chewb Dash Player.
Get youtube dash chunks ready to be added to a video with Media Source Extensions
Uses a websocket client to request youtube buffer chunks from Chewb which is the socket server you connect to.
Use
Connect to a Chewb with socket.io-client
const socket = new YoutubeSocket(socketClient)
promised with bluebird
dash
Get sidx - this describes the ranges to request
socket
.getSidx({itags:["136"]}, options, { id: vId }))
.then(sidx => {
})
Get range
socket.getVideoRange({
uuid: uuid, //optional, for caching
url: url, //from the 'sidx'
range: range //from the 'sidx'
})
youtube
Interface with youtube api.
socket.youtube.playlistItems({
playlistId,
force: true, //get new uncached items
access_token: accessToken //optional, but the envvars will need to be setup in Chewb if false
})
.then(results => {
})
socket.youtube.search({
q,
access_token: accessToken
})
.then(results => {
})
socket.youtube.video({
id,
access_token: accessToken
})