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CodeHelper.API.YouTube 1.0.1

CodeHelper.API.YouTube

CodeHelper.API.YouTube is a lightweight and simple .NET Wrapper to let you access the YouTube Search API Search for Videos, Channels, playlists, Movies, 3D Videos, ...

Question?

• Frederik van Lierde https://twitter.com/@frederik_vl/
• LinkedIN https://www.linkedin.com/company/codehelper-dotnet/
• YouTube API: https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs
• GitHub https://github.com/frederikvanlierde/CodeHelper.API.YouTube
• NuGet https://www.nuget.org/packages/CodeHelper.API.YouTube
• Wiki + Code Examples https://github.com/frederikvanlierde/CodeHelper.API.YouTube/wiki

Version

• 1.0.0 : GetVideoCategories + Search

Methods

• GetVideoCategoriesList(string regionCode="", string language= "en_US", string categoriesIDS = "") : Returns a list of categories that can be associated with YouTube videos.
• Search(string searchQuery, string searchOrder = SearchOrderTpes.Relevance, SearchOptions searchOptions = null) : Search Videos, Playlist of channels
• SearchVideos(string searchQuery, string searchOrder = SearchOrderTpes.Relevance, SearchOptions searchOptions = null) : Search videos only
• SearchChannels(string searchQuery, string searchOrder = SearchOrderTpes.Relevance, SearchOptions? searchOptions = null) : Search channels only
• SearchPlayLists(string searchQuery, string searchOrder = SearchOrderTpes.Relevance, SearchOptions? searchOptions = null) : Search playlists only
• SearchBroadcastEvents(string searchQuery, string eventType = EventyTypes.Completed, string searchOrder = SearchOrderTpes.Relevance, SearchOptions? searchOption = null) : Search BroadcastEvents only
• SearchLiveEvents(string searchQuery, string searchOrder = SearchOrderTpes.Relevance, SearchOptions? searchOption = null) : Returns a collection of broadcast events that are currentl are active/live
• SearchUpcomingEvents(string searchQuery, string searchOrder = SearchOrderTpes.Relevance, SearchOptions? searchOption = null) : Returns a collection of upcoming broadcast events
• Search3DVideos(string searchQuery, string searchOrder = SearchOrderTpes.Relevance, SearchOptions? searchOptions = null) : Search for 3d videos only
• SearchCreativeCommonVideos(string searchQuery, string searchOrder = SearchOrderTpes.Relevance, SearchOptions? searchOptions = null) : Returns a collection of Videos hat have a Creative Commons license.
• SearchMovies(string searchQuery, string searchOrder = SearchOrderTpes.Relevance, SearchOptions? searchOptions = null) : Returns a collection of Movies

Use of Code

using CodeHelper.API.YouTube;

YouTubeHelper _helper = new() {APIKEY= "{YOURAPIKEY}" };
var _categories = await _helper._helper.GetVideoCategoriesList("US");

var _videos = await _helper.SearchVideos("API development");
var _channels = await _helper.SearchChannels("Yachting");
var _broadcastingNow = await _helper.SearchLiveEvents("foorball");
var _upcomingEvents = await _helper.SearchUpcomingEvents("F1");

Authentication

YouTube API uses ApiLey and you need to get your APIKEYS which you can find via My Apps page https://console.cloud.google.com/apis/credentials

Usage

• Free Plan, but YouTube has quotas in place