YoutubeKit
YoutubeKit is a video player that fully supports Youtube IFrame API and YoutubeDataAPI to easily create Youtube applications.
Important Referecens
YoutubeKit is created based on the following references. If you are unsure whether it is a normal behavior or a bug, please check the following documents first.
Example
This is an app using YoutubeKit. A simple video playback example is included into Example.
You can create these functions very easily by using YoutubeKit.
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What is YoutubeKit?
YoutubeKit provides useful functions to create Youtube applications. It consists of the following two functions.
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YTSwiftyPlayer (WKWebView + HTML5 + IFrame API) -
YoutubeDataAPI
YTSwiftyPlayer
YTSwiftyPlayer is a video player that supports Youtube IFrame API.
Features:
- High performance (Performance is 30% better than traditional UIWebView based player)
- Low memory impact (maximum 70% off)
- Type safe parameter interface(All IFrame API's parameters are supported as
VideoEmbedParameter)
YoutubeDataAPI
This library supports YoutubeDataAPI (v3). For the details is Here.
Available API lists:
- Actitivty(list)
- Actitivty(insert)
- Caption(list)
- Channel(list)
- ChannelSections(list)
- Comment(list)
- CommentThreads(list)
- GuideCategories(list)
- PlaylistItems(list)
- Playlists(list)
- Search(list)
- Subscriptions(list)
- VideoAbuseReportReasons(list)
- VideoCategories(list)
- Videos(list)
Get Started
Playback the youtube video.
import YoutubeKit
final class VideoPlayerController: UIViewController {
private var player: YTSwiftyPlayer!
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
// Create a new player
player = YTSwiftyPlayer(
frame: .zero,
playerVars: [
.playsInline(false),
.videoID("9AALILYu58w"),
.loopVideo(true),
.showRelatedVideo(false),
.autoplay(true)
])
view = player
player.delegate = self
// Load video player
let playerPath = Bundle(for: ViewController.self).path(forResource: "player", ofType: "html")!
let htmlString = try! String(contentsOfFile: playerPath, encoding: .utf8)
player.loadPlayerHTML(htmlString)
}
}
YTSwiftyPlayerDelegate
YTSwiftyPlayerDelegate supports folowing delegate methods.
func playerReady(_ player: YTSwiftyPlayer)
func player(_ player: YTSwiftyPlayer, didUpdateCurrentTime currentTime: Double)
func player(_ player: YTSwiftyPlayer, didChangeState state: YTSwiftyPlayerState)
func player(_ player: YTSwiftyPlayer, didChangePlaybackRate playbackRate: Double)
func player(_ player: YTSwiftyPlayer, didReceiveError error: YTSwiftyPlayerError)
func player(_ player: YTSwiftyPlayer, didChangeQuality quality: YTSwiftyVideoQuality)
func apiDidChange(_ player: YTSwiftyPlayer)
func youtubeIframeAPIReady(_ player: YTSwiftyPlayer)
func youtubeIframeAPIFailedToLoad(_ player: YTSwiftyPlayer)Call IFrame API during playback.
// Pause the video.
player.pauseVideo()
// Seek after 15 seconds.
player.seek(to: 15, allowSeekAhead: true)
// Set a mute.
player.mute()
// Load another video.
player.loadVideo(videoID: "abcde")Get video information using YoutubeDataAPI
First, Get API key from Here.
Next, add this code in your AppDelegate.
func application(_ application: UIApplication, didFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions: [UIApplicationLaunchOptionsKey: Any]?) -> Bool {
// Set your API key here
YoutubeKit.shared.setAPIKey("Your API key")
return true
}
And then you can use YoutubeDataAPI request like this.
// Get youtube chart ranking
let request = VideoListRequest(part: [.id, .statistics], filter: .chart)
// Send a request.
YoutubeAPI.shared.send(request) { result in
switch result {
case .success(let response):
print(response)
case .failed(let error):
print(error)
}
}
Example of response here.
VideoList(items: [YoutubeKit.Video(etag: "\"A8kisgyDEbllhHF9ooXPFFrkc/nR6_A9oyIoLTJuucY_UXeasjYNU\"",
kind: "youtube#video",
id: "jeiDjeJgF0",
contentDetails: nil,
statistics: Optional(YoutubeKit.Statistics.VideoList(dislikeCount: "1631", likeCount: "60307", commentCount: Optional("8675"), favoriteCount: "0", viewCount: "1259046")),
snippet: nil,
status: nil),
etag: "\"J67fSnfblalhHF0foXPiFFrkc/TZGPJdE22-LilSv4-3VNoPw1cS4\"",
kind: "youtube#videoListResponse",
pageInfo: YoutubeKit.PageInfo(resultsPerPage: 5, totalResults: 200))Fetch the next page (Pagination)
var nextPageToken: String?
...
// Send some request
YoutubeAPI.shared.send(request) { [weak self] result in
switch result {
case .success(let response):
// Save nextPageToken
self?.nextPage = response.nextPageToken
case .failed(let error):
print(error)
}
}
...
// Set nextPageToken
let request = VideoListRequest(part: [.id], filter: .chart, nextPageToken: nextPageToken)Authorization Request
If you want authorized request such as a getting your activity in Youtube, you set your access token before sending a request.
To use GoogleSignIn, you can easily get your access token.
pod 'GoogleSignIn'
First, add this code in your AppDelegate.
func application(_ application: UIApplication, didFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions: [UIApplicationLaunchOptionsKey: Any]?) -> Bool {
// Set your access token for autheticate request
YoutubeKit.shared.setAccessToken("Your access token")
return true
}And then you can use request requiring authorization, this is an example to get your Youtube activity.
// Get your Youtube activity
let request = ActivityListRequest(part: [.snippet], filter: .mine(true))
// Send a request.
YoutubeAPI.shared.send(request) { result in
switch result {
case .success(let video):
print(video)
case .failed(let error):
print(error)
}
}Requirements
Xcode 12+
Swift 5+
Installation
Swift Package Manager
Add the following to your Package.swift file:
dependencies: [
.package(url: "https://github.com/rinov/YoutubeKit.git", from: "0.7.0")
]Cocoapods
$ pod repo update
And add this to your Podfile:
pod 'YoutubeKit'and
$ pod install
Carthage
Add this to your Cartfile:
github "rinov/YoutubeKit"
and
$ carthage update
Author
Github: https://github.com/rinov
Twitter: https://twitter.com/rinov0321
Email: rinov[at]rinov.jp
License
YoutubeKit is available under the MIT license.