youtubei-rs

An asynchronous implementation of the Invidious InnerTube (aka youtubei) API wrapper.

Uses tokio, reqwest, serde and serde_json.

Configuration

The client_config can be configured to dump the JSON response into a file if it's not parsable, which is on by default when using the default_client_config() function.

When creating the client_config manually, you can parse true/false as the last parameter to disable this behavior.

Roadmap

• Implement proxy support
• Remove panics
• Add more endpoints

Implemented endpoints

• next
• browse
• search
• resolve_url
• player

Supported queries

• next_video_id: Get next (aka related and comments) results for a given videoId
• next_continuation: Fetch more next (aka related and comments) results for a given ctoken
• browse_id: Get browse (aka a channel or playlist) results for a given browseId
• browse_continuation: Fetch more browse(aka a channel or playlist) results for a given ctoken
• resolve: Resolve a given URL
• player: Get player data for a given videoId

For in depth info, take a look at query.rs and tests.rs.

Example

use youtubei_rs::{query::player, utils::default_client_config, tokio};

#[tokio::main]
async fn main() {
    // Create the default client_config with web client
    let client_config = &default_client_config();

    // Get player for video with id `gC6dQrScmHE`
    let player = player(
        String::from("gC6dQrScmHE"), // Video ID
        String::new(), // Parameters
        &client_config // Client config
    ).await.except("Couldn't fetch the video info");

    println!("{}", player.video_details.title); // Print the video title
}

With logging

For logging, tracing is used so tracing_subscribe can be installed for easier use of tracing. The library has as target youtubei_rs with debug, trace, and error levels.

use youtubei_rs::{query::player, utils::default_client_config, tokio};

#[tokio::main]
async fn main() {
    std::env::set_var("RUST_LOG", "youtubei_rs=debug");
    tracing_subscriber::fmt::init();

    // Create the default client_config with web client
    let client_config = &default_client_config();

    // Get player for video with id `gC6dQrScmHE`
    let player = player(
        String::from("gC6dQrScmHE"), // Video ID
        String::new(), // Parameters
        &client_config // Client config
    ).await.except("Couldn't fetch the video info");

    println!("{}", player.video_details.title); // Print the video title
}