python-piped-api-client/README.md

# Piped API client (Python)

A Python API wrapper for [Piped](https://piped-docs.kavin.rocks/). This can essentially be used as an alternative way to access YouTube's API, without needing to use an API key. Forked to allow for search queries to be made.

## Installation

```bash
pip install git+https://gitdab.com/cere/python-piped-api-client
```

## Quickstart

Getting started is very easy:

```python
from piped_api import PipedClient

CLIENT = PipedClient()


# Print out the first audio stream URL for a video:
video = CLIENT.get_video(video_id)
audio_stream = video.get_streams('audio')[0]

print(f"Audio stream URL: {audio_stream.url} ({audio_stream.mime_type})")
```

You can find more examples in the [`tests`](https://github.com/CWKevo/python-piped-api-client/tree/master/tests) folder.

## Why?

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The creation of this package was primarily fueled by the same type of motivation [Piped has](https://piped-docs.kavin.rocks/docs/why/).

Google's API is not very easy-to-use - you must obtain some JSON thingy to use it, and it is very low-level and not very user-friendly.
On the other hand, this package accessed the [Piped API](https://piped.kavin.rocks/), which has a much more high-level API and doesn't need an account or API keys.

It is not meant to be a replacement for the official YouTube API, but it can help you to cut the strings that Google attaches to you when using their API.

## Useful links

- [Piped's official API documentation](https://piped-docs.kavin.rocks/docs/api-documentation/)