youtube-playlist-search

Searches over title and description of videos in an specific playlist.

This library was born as a need for retrieving info from a specific YouTuBe playlist and search over their results. At this point, as I'm learning React it was easier for me to code this library and use it, than to code this functionality inside the React APP.

Installation

yarn add youtube-playlist-search

Supported parameters

• key

  • Your API key from Google developer console.

    This parameter is required.

• maxResults

  • unsigned integer

    The maxResults parameter specifies the maximum number of items that should be returned in the result set. Acceptable values are 0 to 50, inclusive. The default value is 5.

    Default value 30.

• part

  • string

    The part parameter specifies a comma-separated list of one or more playlistItem resource properties that the API response will include.

    If the parameter identifies a property that contains child properties, the child properties will be included in the response. For example, in a playlistItem resource, the snippet property contains numerous fields, including the title, description, position, and resourceId properties. As such, if you set part=snippet, the API response will contain all of those properties.

    The following list contains the part names that you can include in the parameter value and the quota cost for each part:

    • contentDetails: 2
    • id: 0
    • snippet: 2
    • status: 2

    Default value 'snippet,contentDetails'

• playlistId

  • string

    The playlistId parameter specifies the unique ID of the playlist for which you want to retrieve playlist items. Note that even though this is an optional parameter, every request to retrieve playlist items must specify a value for either the id parameter or the playlistId parameter.

    This parameter is required.

• pageToken

  • string

    The pageToken parameter identifies a specific page in the result set that should be returned. In an API response, the nextPageToken and prevPageToken properties identify other pages that could be retrieved.

These parameters are based on the ones specified for the playlistItem YouTuBe API, except from key (the API key that I'm using for making the request) and from term which I'm using for filtering the results that come in the response.

How to use it

Here is an example of how I'm using it:

import _ from 'lodash';
import YTSearch from 'youtube-playlist-search';
import React, { Component } from 'react';
import logo from './logo.svg';
import './App.css';
import SearchBar from './components/search_bar';
import VideoList from './components/video_list';
import VideoDetail from './components/video_detail';
 
class App extends Component {
  constructor(props) {
    super(props);
 
    this.state = {
      videos: [],
      selectedVideo: null
    };
 
    this.key = process.env.REACT_APP_YTB_API_KEY_DEV
    if (process.env.NODE_ENV === 'production') {
      this.key = process.env.REACT_APP_YTB_API_KEY_PROD
    }
 
    this.params = {
      part: 'snippet,contentDetails',
      playlistId: 'PLH99prTh-VPqO7ld0o2Sny6bLxpf80Js0',
      key: this.key
    };
 
    this.videoSearch('')
  }
 
  videoSearch(term) {
    YTSearch(term, this.params, (err, videos) => {
      this.setState({
        videos: videos,
        selectedVideo: videos[0]
      });
    });
  }
 
  render() {
    const videoSearch = _.debounce((term) => {this.videoSearch(term)}, 300);
    return (
      <div className="App">
        <header className="App-header">
          <img src={logo} className="App-logo" alt="logo" />
          <h1 className="App-title">Welcome to React</h1>
        </header>
        <SearchBar onSearchTermChange={videoSearch}/>
        <VideoDetail video={this.state.selectedVideo}/>
        <VideoList
          onVideoSelect={selectedVideo => this.setState({selectedVideo})}
          videos={this.state.videos}/>
      </div>
    );
  }
}
 
export default App;