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YouTube Public Data Scrapper that parses HTML for the data

FackTube is a scrapper for retrieving YouTube public data. Currently it can only scrape videos. Channels, playlists and single video will be added in future. Feel free to fork and add.

It's not a reliable method for fetching data unless you use tons of paid proxies. And I wouldn't recommend using it on Production either. But hey, YouTube's been a real jerk lately with their Data API v3. It's the least we can do, so lets fack on YouTube.

Install via Composer

composer require mirazmac/facktube

Limitations

You can't limit or change the amount of results per page
It depends on YouTube's internal html output, and since YouTube heavily relies on JavaScript it can only show the results YouTube provides with no filter whatsoever
Its illegal and YouTube may block your IP if you send too many requests

Usage

Check usage folder for complete usage examples.

Searching Videos

use MirazMac\FackTube\FackTube;

$fack = new FackTube($options);

try {
    $results = $fack->videos('Honest Trailer');
} catch (\Exception $e) {
    echo $e->getMessage();
    exit();
}

print_r($results);

But hey, if html parsing is so messy, Why not AJAX endpoints?

Well, yeah I did that previously with https://github.com/MirazMac/YouScrape and now YouTube completely revamped their AJAX endpoints with session based Tokens and other stuff. So, thats a no no. But if you find a way to bypass those create a new repo and let me know, I'll be happy to contribute.

mirazmac / facktube

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