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Piped API client (Python)
A Python API wrapper for Piped. This can essentially be used as an alternative way to access YouTube's API, without needing to use an API key.
Installation
pip install piped-api
Quickstart
Getting started is very easy:
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})")
Why?
This package has allowed me to start creating my open-source project, ArchiveTube - a scrapper and archive for YouTube content (videos and comments) - to preserve them and make them available to anyone, with ability to search for comments and videos. View hall of fame (most liked comments and videos), bring back dislikes via ReturnYouTubeDislike.com, view deleted content and much more! Google has showed us that they make YouTube own us by harvesting our data. This is also followed by non-throught out decisions, which their users aren't happy with. Let's do it the other way around this time by reclaiming our content and entertainment back & make YouTube great again!
The creation of this package was also primarily fueled by the same type of motivation Piped has.
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, 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.