public static void Main(string[] args)
{
string input = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyvQaVUeu90"; // here 'input' is the URL of youtube video...
// you can also assign URL of a video from playlist to 'input'...
// 'input' can also be a search query (e.g. input = "windows 10")...
string playlistID;
string playlistTitle;
YouTube youtube = new YouTube(); // create object of YouTube class...
switch (youtube.Check(input)) // 'Check(input)' method automatically detects if input is a URL or a search query and returns 'InputType'...
{ // (e.g. InputType.VideoURL, InputType.PlaylistURL, InputType.SearchQuery, InputType.Invalid)...
case YouTube.InputType.VideoURL:
foreach (Information information in youtube.Informations(youtube.GetVideoID(input)))
{
/*
* all the information can be retrieved from 'information' object...
*/
bool adaptive = information.adaptive; // whether the video is in DASH format or not (if the video is in DASH format, value of 'adaptive' will be true)...
int itag = information.itag; // itag is a tag assigned by youtube for different resolutions and file formats...
string videoID = information.videoID; // unique video id...
string title = information.title; // title of the video...
string duration = information.duration; // duration of the video...
playlistID = information.playlistID; // unique playlist id...
string playlistIndex = information.playlistIndex; // index of the video in it's playlist...
playlistTitle = information.playlistTitle; // title of the playlist...
string resolution = information.resolution; // video quality (e.g. 4K, 2K, Full HD, HD etc)...
string fileType = information.fileType; // if the information is about the DASH audio file or video file...
string fileSize = information.fileSize; // size of the file...
string fileExtension = information.fileExtension; // file extension...
string downloadLink = information.downloadLink; // download link of that video...
Uri thumbnailUri = youtube.GetThumbnailUri(information.videoID, YouTube.ThumbnailQuality.High); // there are 3 qualities (Low, Medium, High) available for thumbnail...
string thumbnailURL = thumbnailUri.ToString(); // to get the URL of the thumbnail...
Console.WriteLine(information + "\n"); // also you can just simply print the 'information' object...
}
break;
case YouTube.InputType.PlaylistURL:
playlistID = youtube.GetPlaylistID(input); // unique playlist id from PlaylistURL...
string playlistPage = youtube.GetPlaylistPage(playlistID); // downloads web page of the playlist as string...
playlistTitle = youtube.GetPlaylistTitle(playlistPage); // parses title of the playlist...
int playlistVideoCount = youtube.CountPlaylistVideos(playlistPage); // parses the number of videos in a playlist...
Console.WriteLine("Playlist Title = " + playlistTitle + "\nVideo(s) = " + playlistVideoCount + "\n");
foreach (string url in youtube.PlaylistURLs(playlistID)) // you will get URLs of all the videos of the playlist...
{
Console.WriteLine(url);
}
Console.WriteLine("\n");
foreach (Information information in youtube.PlaylistInformations(playlistID))
{
/*
*
* you can get all the information from 'information' object
* just like the previous example...
*
*/
Console.WriteLine(information + "\n"); // also you can just simply print the 'information' object...
}
break;
case YouTube.InputType.SearchQuery:
int page = 3; // page must be greater than zero...
// here we set 'page = 3' because we want to get the search results from the third page...
foreach (string videoID in youtube.Search(page, input)) // you will get URLs of all the videos from the third page of the search result...
{
Console.WriteLine(youtube.ToVideoURL(videoID));
}
break;
case YouTube.InputType.Invalid:
Console.WriteLine("Invalid input detected...");
break;
}
Console.ReadKey();
}
