YoutubeFeed

Youtube RSS feed is customized with their own elements(prefixed with 'yt-').

This gem will parse youtube rss feed url and fetch feeds in standard rss format.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'youtube_feed'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install youtube_feed

Usage

# any youtube playlist rss url / user videos rss url / channel videos rss url
# url = https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?playlist_id=PLwj9AQsvgODeGN2ZFEKQq15kDXwz8bnll

feed = YoutubeFeed::Parser.new(url).fetch_and_parse

feed.entries # returns an array of Entry objects
# => [<YoutubeFeed::AtomEntry ...>, <YoutubeFeed::AtomEntry ...>, ...]

These entry objects contain the data parsed from the feed XML:

    entry = feed.entries.first
    entry.link
    # => "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lip-XpO3WIA"
    entry.title
    # => "Announcing verison 1.0"
    entry.description
    # => "Amazon Go will prompt retailers to rethink the checkout experience,...."
    entry.author
    # => "L2inc"
    entry.thumbnail
    # => "https://i1.ytimg.com/vi/Lip-XpO3WIA/hqdefault.jpg"
    entry.entry_id
    # => "Lip-XpO3WIA"
    entry.channel_id
    # => "UCBcRF18a7Qf58cCRy5xuWwQ"
    entry.published_at
    # => "2016-12-30T19:49:45+00:00"
    entry.star_rating
    # => "4.96"
    entry.views_count
    # => "64885"

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.