Youtube Downloader Application

Question

I am a computer science student and I want to make an application to automatically download the latest news from youtube and save it on my hdd. I want to make an application that would download youtube videos that were uploaded on a particular day on a particular channel. I have the following programming skills: C#, JavaScript/Jquery, asp.net, Java.

This is what I want to do :

• Search for the videos on that particular channel on a specific date
• Extract & manipulate header info to generate the get_video token
• Download the videos or feed it to a 3rd party download manager through a txt file

But I am not sure how to do this. Any ideas on how to proceed???? What technologies should I be looking at to make this possible....

Answer 1

Using C#, here is what you may do:

• To search for specific video, you can use Google's YouTube API. There are a few C# samples in the documentation: https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/code_samples/dotnet#search_by_keyword. In the "Reference" section, there is also something more specific about filtering by channel.

• I'm not sure, wether the API provides a download functionality: Anyway, you could use this library instead: https://github.com/flagbug/YoutubeExtractor

Hope this helps.

Answer 2

To make Youtube downloader application, you can use the following technologies:

• Reactjs (for front end) . It is based on JavaScript.
• 'react-player' node module for embedding Youtube.
• Google's Youtube API to get the list of videos based on the search.
• "ReadableStream" object of JavaScript for downloading the stream and video files. (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Streams_API/Using_readable_streams)
• Nodejs for back-end.

Example of a Youtube downloader is YTDownload. You can contact the website or youtube developer for more details.