Yourub

Yourub is a gem that search videos on youtebe using the YouTube API v3.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'yourub'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install yourub

Usage

Get a developer key as explained here After that, you have 2 ways to use the client. If you want to use it in your rails app, create a app/config/yourub.yml file as follow:

yourub_defaults: &yourub_defaults
  developer_key: 'YoUrDevEl0PerKey'
  youtube_api_service_name: 'youtube'
  youtube_api_version: 'v3'
  application_name: "yourub"
  application_version: "0.1"
  log_level: WARN

development:
  <<: *yourub_defaults

production:
  <<: *yourub_defaults

test:
  <<: *yourub_defaults

If you want to use it from the console, or in another program, you can simply pass an hash containing the needed options

options = { developer_key: 'mySecretKey',
             application_name: 'yourub',
             application_version: 2.0,
             log_level: 3 }

client = Yourub::Client.new(options)

Examples

For example, to find the most recent videos in the category "sports" in Germany

client = Yourub::Client.new
client.search(country: "DE", category: "sports", order: 'date') do |v|
  puts v
end

To find video for a specific thema, use the parameter query

client = Yourub::Client.new
client.search(query: "aliens") do |v|
  puts v
end

that is the content of the response:

[{"kind"=>"youtube#video", "etag"=>"\"N5Eg36Gl054SUNiWWc-Su3t5O-k/U6AzLXvcnZt2WFqpnq9_dksV7DA\"", "id"=>"NisCkxU544c", "snippet"=>{"publishedAt"=>"2009-04-05T05:20:10.000Z", "channelId"=>"UCCHcEUksSVKsRDH86j77Ntg", "title"=>"Like A Boss (ft. Seth Rogen) - Uncensored Version", "description"=>"http://www.itunes.com/thelonelyisland\r\n\r\nThe new single from The Lonely Island's debut album \"INCREDIBAD\" In stores now!\r\n\r\nFeaturing Seth Rogen.\r\n\r\nThe Lonely Island is Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer & Jorma Taccone.", "thumbnails"=>{"default"=>{"url"=>"https://i1.ytimg.com/vi/NisCkxU544c/default.jpg", "width"=>120, "height"=>90}, "medium"=>{"url"=>"https://i1.ytimg.com/vi/NisCkxU544c/mqdefault.jpg", "width"=>320, "height"=>180}, "high"=>{"url"=>"https://i1.ytimg.com/vi/NisCkxU544c/hqdefault.jpg", "width"=>480, "height"=>360}, "standard"=>{"url"=>"https://i1.ytimg.com/vi/NisCkxU544c/sddefault.jpg", "width"=>640, "height"=>480}, "maxres"=>{"url"=>"https://i1.ytimg.com/vi/NisCkxU544c/maxresdefault.jpg", "width"=>1280, "height"=>720}}, "channelTitle"=>"thelonelyisland", "categoryId"=>"23", "liveBroadcastContent"=>"none"}, "statistics"=>{"viewCount"=>"120176425", "likeCount"=>"594592", "dislikeCount"=>"15121", "favoriteCount"=>"0", "commentCount"=>"208109"}}]

Available parameters

:query String, example aliens

:country String, one or more alpha-2 country codes ISO 3166-1, example US or IT, DE. The default one is US

:category String, example comedy. It accept the wildcard all, that retrieves videos for all the category for the given nation, or the default one (US) if no one is given

:count_filter Hash, example {views: ">= 100"} or {views: "== 600"}

:max_results Integer, between 1 and 50

:order String, one of these: 'date', 'rating', 'relevance', 'title', 'videocount', 'viewcount'. The default one is 'relevance'

It's necessary at least one of this parameters to start a search: :country, :category, :query

Methods

• search, search youtube videos for the given parameters

client = Yourub::Client.new
client.search(query: "space missions")

• get_views it return the number of views for the given video id

client = Yourub::Client.new
client.get_views("G2b0OIkTraI")

• get retrieves all the metatags available for one

client = Yourub::Client.new
client.get("G2b0OIkTraI")

Supported Ruby Versions

This gem supports the following Ruby versions:

• Ruby 1.9.3
• Ruby 2.0.0
• Ruby 2.1
• Ruby 2.2
• JRuby 1.7 (in Ruby 1.9 mode)

##TODO Here there is a list of the available methods. Currently, this gem implements: videos.list, search.list and videoCategories.list. The next methods that will be implemented are playlist.list and channelis.list

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Run the test, run the spec/yourub/integration.rb file with a valid developer key
5. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
6. Create new Pull Request