Youtube Data Extractor

A Ruby gem for extracting youtube video data.

This does not use the API that google provides, this is just data gathered from scraping raw HTML data. No reason really, I just find doing so more fun.

This gem is still in it's earlier stages of development so expect stuff to change. I will try not to change too much in terms of interface methods/ classes that can break your existing scripts for convenience sake.

Installation

Written and tested with and ruby 3.0.2 on Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS.

Install required gems:

bundle install

Build and install gem file locally:

gem build && gem install youtube-data-[version].gem

Or install from gem server:

gem install youtube-data

Usage

For some examples on how to use this gem go and check out the examples sub-directory.

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and the created tag, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Running tests:

cd tests  # These commands must be run in ./tests for relative path reasons.
./data/get_data  # Fetch data used in test. Used for mocked session objects to avoid sending requests when testing.
ruby test_all.rb  # To run all tests, or you can just call an individual test instead.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub.

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.