Summary

Latest Version	Unknown
License	MIT
CI Status	Failing
Downloads	0
Last Indexed	2026-07-21 05:25

Installation

nimble install ytextractor

choosenim install ytextractor

git clone https://github.com/thisago/ytextractor

OS Compatibility

Platform	Linux	macOS	Windows	FreeBSD	OpenBSD	NetBSD	Android	iOS	WASM	Embedded
ytextractor	✓	✓	✓	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Source

Repository	https://github.com/thisago/ytextractor
Homepage	https://github.com/thisago/ytextractor
Registry Source	nimble_official

README

ytextractor

Note: An new version with async, NodeJS support and more fixes are in development at branch dev-v1.2

Youtube data extractor

Extracts the data of a Youtube url. but more will be added soon!

The objective is extract every data that don't need authentication

Features

Extracted Info

- **Video url** - Video info - [x] Id (video code) - [x] Title - [x] Description - [x] Thumbnails - [x] Embed - [x] Publish date - [x] Upload date - [x] Length - [x] Family friendly - [x] Unlisted - [x] Private - [x] Live (is live) - [x] Channel - [x] Views - [x] Category - [x] Likes - [x] Keywords - [x] Captions URLs - Channel - [x] Name - [x] Id - [x] Url - [x] Subscribers - [x] Channel icons - [x] Hidden subscribers (bool) - **Channel url** - [x] Id - [x] Url - [x] Name - [x] Subscribers - [x] Channel icons - [x] Hidden subscribers (bool) - [x] Family safe - [x] Tags - [x] Description (about) - [x] Banners - [x] Links - [x] Primary - [x] Secondary - [x] Highlighted playlists videos - [x] Highlighted video - [x] Id (video code) - [x] Title - [x] Description - [ ] Thumbnails - [x] Views - [x] Rounded publish date - [x] Badges - [x] Name - [x] Icon - [x] IconType - [x] Style - [x] Video captions - **Video data** - [ ] Subtitles - [ ] Comments - [ ] Comments of comments - Livechat - [ ] Realtime - [ ] Replay - [ ] Search results - [ ] All videos from channel/user - [ ] All videos of playlist (a seq of videos)

JS (browser) target avaliable!

Online example

An example can be found in examples/web.

Unfortunately the implementation isn't async, soon it will be fixed

TODO: Add captions extraction to JS example

Usage

`video.nim`

import ytextractor
echo extractVideo "7on15IWC2u4"

or

import ytextractor
var vid = initYoutubeVideo "7on15IWC2u4".videoId
discard vid.update()
echo vid

`channel.nim`

import ytextractor
echo extractChannel "https://www.youtube.com/c/taofledermaus"

or

import ytextractor
var channel = initYoutubeChannel "https://www.youtube.com/c/taofledermaus".channelId
discard channel.update(home)
echo channel

`captions.nim`

import ytextractor
echo "7on15IWC2u4".extractVideo.captions[0].url.extractCaptions

or

import ytextractor
var captions = initYoutubecaptions()
discard captions.update "7on15IWC2u4".extractVideo.captions[0].url
echo captions

Installation

Minimum Nim version is 1.2.2

Please choice one installation method:

Automatically with nimble bash nimble install ytextractor Or
Manually bash git clone https://github.com/thisago/ytextractor cd ytextractor/ nimble install

Docs

A online docs is hosted in Github Pages

TODO

[ ] Usage guide (not only Nim)
[ ] Make requests async
[ ] Use API https://www.youtube.com/youtubei/v1/browse to get channel data instead using simple page request
[ ] Add tests for captions sub module

ytextractor

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Installation

OS Compatibility

Source

README

ytextractor

Features

JS (browser) target avaliable!

Usage

`video.nim`

`channel.nim`

`captions.nim`

Installation

Docs

TODO

Useful links

nlitsme/youtube_tool

License