Common Video Parser

An easy way to get info from API of common video parsing websites.

Supported as of now

• Youtube
• Vimeo
• Dailymotion
• Google Drive (video files)

Disclaimer: You have to provide your own API Authentication info for Vimeo & Youtube/Google Drive (can use same key for both technically).

To Do :

• Add typings file
• Non specifc get function that auto parses link and gets data
• Make returned data fields/objects more consistent

Changelog:

(1.1.0)

• Uses bluebird promises and axios now instead of request-promise
• optimized code, reduced average time for multi-requests by atleast 40%

Installation

npm i commonvideoparser

yarn add commonvideoparser

Testing

npm run test

yarn run test

If you have jest installed globally, simply run jest in folder

How To Use

Make sure you have enabled Youtube & Google Drive API for your app key;

This app doesn't use oAuth, use simple API key

https://console.developers.google.com

Get Vimeo auth config

https://developer.vimeo.com/

Initialize

 
const vLib = require('commonvideoparser');
 
vLib.setGoogleApiKey("XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX");
 
vLib.setVimeoApiConfig({
  CLIENT_ID:"XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX",
  CLIENT_SECRET:"XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX",
  ACCESS_TOKEN:"XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"
});
 
// These functions also return the config obj/key after setting it
 

Individual video libraries return promises, can be handled with async/await

Youtube

Single/Multiple Video Links

 
vLib.youtube.videoData("https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXXXXXX")
  .then(result=>{
    // do whatever with data
  })
  .catch(error=>console.log(error));
 
// Shortened links also work
// https://youtu.be/XXXXXXXXXXX
 
// Can also pass array of videos
 
vLib.youtube.videoData([
  "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXXXXXX",
  "https://youtu.be/XXXXXXX"
])
 

Playlist Info

Basic Playlist Info, not the actual videos of the playlist

 
vLib.youtube.playlistInfoData("https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=XXXXXXXXXXX")
 
// Can also pass array
 
vLib.youtube.playlistInfoData([
  "https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=XXXXXXXXXXX",
  "https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=XXXXXXXXXXX"
])
 

Playlist Video Data

 
vLib.youtube.playlistVideoData("https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=XXXXXXXXXXX")
 
// Same as others, can pass array of playlist links
 

Vimeo

 
vLib.vimeo.videoData("https://vimeo.com/XXXXXXX")
 
// Same as others, can pass array of video links
 

Dailymotion

 
vLib.dailymotion.videoData([
  "http://dai.ly/XXXXXXX",
  "http://www.dailymotion.com/video/XXXXXXX"
])
 
// can pass array and shortened urls
 

Google Drive

 
vLib.dailymotion.videoData([
  "https://drive.google.com/file/d/XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX/preview",
  "https://docs.google.com/file/d/XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX",
  "https://drive.google.com/open?id=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"
])
 
// Can pass array and different variations of the link
 

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Data Returned

Youtube	Vimeo	Dailymotion	Google Drive
title	name	title	title
duration	duration	duration	duration
link	link	link	link
embeddable	user	createdTime	size
channel	description	dimensions	createdTime
description	created_time	thumbnail	thumbnail
published	release_time		dimensions
thumbnail	dimensions
	thumbnail

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ES6

If you want to use individual modules, you can set API/Config directly from within.

(For Youtube, Google Drive, Vimeo)

 
import { vimeo as vm } from 'commonvideoparser';
 
vm.setVimeoApiConfig({
  CLIENT_ID:"XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX",
  CLIENT_SECRET:"XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX",
  ACCESS_TOKEN:"XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"
});
 

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