Add an API for searching about youtubeexplode HOT 7 CLOSED

In case it helps anyone, I'm currently successfully using the library here: https://github.com/mrklintscher/YoutubeSearch along with YoutubeExplode, and it seems to be working well. Using this code with a WPF ListView:

listView.Items.Clear();
string querystring = txtSearch.Text;
int querypages = 3;

        var items = new VideoSearch();

        string vidLink = "";
        
        foreach (var item in items.SearchQuery(querystring, querypages))
        { 
            listView.Items.Add(new vidItem { Name = HttpUtility.HtmlDecode(item.Title), Url = item.Url });
        }

I then just pull a URL from the ListView into Youtube Explode with a mouse event handler.

I hope this helps.

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@djdynamix nice catch, but it's a GPL -.-

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That library uses normal search (https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=test) and just parses the HTML for results. This can be replicated easily but I'm not sure how volatile it is.

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I think it's better to use that library separately, if you want and if there is a need just map ones model to another. I would prefer ajax/api calls instead of html parsing.

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You can probably parse mobile version of the site: https://m.youtube.com/results?search_query=dogs&app=m. It's very compact and hasn't been changed in a long time from what I can see. You would just need to regex all video links (/watch?v=) and continuation token (&ctoken=) for next page.

There are also some search options: you can search for playlists and channels instead of videos, and can filter by upload date.

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I got it working somehow, with pages, although it's still not the same as YouTube's search but it's kinda close and better than nothing I guess.

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Worth noting that the Video objects returned by the search lack keywords and their description is trimmed. This is how the request returns them...

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