YoutubeVideoExtractor

Motivation :

YouTube provides an API to developers (https://developers.google.com/youtube/) allowing them to use YouTube's data (videos stats, comments, playlists, account management, auth, ...) in their own apps.

However in order to stream videos there are only 2 options :

1. Using a youtube library that uses UIWebView to use the Javascript player.

2. Embed html video integration (really html ????) like in websites.

Both ways offer very few customization options to 3rd-party applications ! and DO NOT ALLOW TO DOWNLOAD videos.

Solution :

The solution is to extract videos files urls' (mp4) from youtube VideoId. And with the url you can handle the video as you want (download, stream, custom player, convert to mp3, music downloaders apps ...).

Install :

include YoutubeVideoExtractor.swift to your project

How to use :

YoutubeVideoExtractor offers a function with that takes a YouTube VideoId and a completion handler to perform actions on urls extracted from the given videoId.

let videoId = "iol8n3m88SA" // your youtube video id here
extractVideos(from: videoId) { (dic) -> (Void) in 
    
    // dic is a Dictionary of available video quality 
    // the url of the video with hd720 quality (if available) is : dic["hd720"]
    // to print all available qualities use :
    print(dic.keys)
    
    // use dic here
}

Example

You can find in this repo a very basic example of using YoutubeVideoExtractor with a simple AVPlayer.

Applications using YoutubeVideoExtractor :

if you are using YoutubeVideoExtractor please contact as to add you to the list.

(comming soon)