/// <summary>
/// Doing search query with given parameters. Returns a List<> object.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="queryString"></param>
/// <param name="queryPages"></param>
/// <returns></returns>
public List <VideoInformation> SearchQuery(string queryString, int queryPages)
{
items = new List <VideoInformation>();
webclient = new WebClient
{
Encoding = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8
};
// Do search
for (int i = 1; i <= queryPages; i++)
{
// Search address
string html = webclient.DownloadString("https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=" + queryString + "&page=" + i + "&sp=EgIQAQ%253D%253D");
// Search string
string pattern = "<div class=\"yt-lockup-content\">.*?title=\"(?<NAME>.*?)\".*?</div></div></div></li>"; //THIS PATTERN SPLITS SEARCH RESULT DIVS BY VIDEOS. EACH MEMBER OF result IS A SEPERATE VIDEO RESULT
MatchCollection result = Regex.Matches(html, pattern, RegexOptions.Singleline);
for (int ctr = 0; ctr <= result.Count - 1; ctr++)
{
// Title
title = result[ctr].Groups[1].Value;
// Author
// yt-uix-sessionlink spf-link \" data-sessionlink=\"itct=
// </a></div><div class=\"yt-lockup-meta \">
author = VideoItemHelper.Cull(result[ctr].Value, "yt-uix-sessionlink spf-link \" data-sessionlink=\"itct=", "</a>"); //.Substring(44); //.Replace('"', ' ').TrimStart().TrimEnd();
author = author.Substring(45);
// Duration
duration = VideoItemHelper.Cull(VideoItemHelper.Cull(result[ctr].Value, "id=\"description-id-", "span"), ": ", ".<");
// Url
url = string.Concat("http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=", VideoItemHelper.Cull(result[ctr].Value, "watch?v=", "\""));
// Thumbnail
thumbnail = "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/" + VideoItemHelper.Cull(result[ctr].Value, "watch?v=", "\"") + "/mqdefault.jpg";
//// Remove playlists
//if (title != "__title__")
//{
// if (duration != "")
// {
// // Add item to list
// items.Add(new VideoInformation() { Title = title, Url = url, Duration = duration, Thumbnail = thumbnail, Author = author });
// }
//}
items.Add(new VideoInformation()
{
Title = title, Url = url, Duration = duration, Thumbnail = thumbnail, Author = author
});
}
}
return(items);
}
/// <summary>
/// Doing search query with given parameters. Returns a List<> object.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="querystring"></param>
/// <param name="querypages"></param>
/// <returns></returns>
public List <VideoInformation> SearchQuery(string querystring, int querypages)
{
items = new List <VideoInformation>();
webclient = new WebClient();
// Do search
for (int i = 1; i <= querypages; i++)
{
// Search address
string html = webclient.DownloadString("https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=" + querystring + "&page=" + i);
// Search string
string pattern = "<div class=\"yt-lockup-content\">.*?title=\"(?<NAME>.*?)\".*?</div></div></div></li>";
MatchCollection result = Regex.Matches(html, pattern, RegexOptions.Singleline);
for (int ctr = 0; ctr <= result.Count - 1; ctr++)
{
// Title
title = result[ctr].Groups[1].Value;
// Author
author = VideoItemHelper.cull(result[ctr].Value, "/user/", "class").Replace('"', ' ').TrimStart().TrimEnd();
// Description
description = VideoItemHelper.cull(result[ctr].Value, "dir=\"ltr\" class=\"yt-uix-redirect-link\">", "</div>");
// Duration
duration = VideoItemHelper.cull(VideoItemHelper.cull(result[ctr].Value, "id=\"description-id-", "span"), ": ", "<").Replace(".", "");
// Url
url = string.Concat("http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=", VideoItemHelper.cull(result[ctr].Value, "watch?v=", "\""));
// Thumbnail
thumbnail = "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/" + VideoItemHelper.cull(result[ctr].Value, "watch?v=", "\"") + "/mqdefault.jpg";
// Remove playlists
if (title != "__title__")
{
if (duration != "")
{
// Add item to list
items.Add(new VideoInformation()
{
Title = title, Author = author, Description = description, Duration = duration, Url = url, Thumbnail = thumbnail,
});
}
}
}
}
return(items);
}
private void ProcessPage(string htmlPage)
{
MatchCollection result = Regex.Matches(htmlPage, Pattern, RegexOptions.Singleline);
for (int ctr = 0; ctr <= result.Count - 1; ctr++)
{
// Title
title = result[ctr].Groups[1].Value;
// Author
author = VideoItemHelper.cull(result[ctr].Value, "/user/", "class").Replace('"', ' ').TrimStart().TrimEnd();
// Description
description = VideoItemHelper.cull(result[ctr].Value, "dir=\"ltr\" class=\"yt-uix-redirect-link\">", "</div>");
// Duration
duration = VideoItemHelper.cull(VideoItemHelper.cull(result[ctr].Value, "id=\"description-id-", "span"), ": ", "<").Replace(".", "");
// Url
url = string.Concat(YtWatchUrl, VideoItemHelper.cull(result[ctr].Value, "watch?v=", "\""));
// Thumbnail
thumbnail = YtThumbnailUrl + VideoItemHelper.cull(result[ctr].Value, "watch?v=", "\"") + "/mqdefault.jpg";
// Remove playlists
if (title != "__title__")
{
if (duration != "")
{
// Add item to list
items.Add(new VideoInformation()
{
Title = title, Author = author, Description = description, Duration = duration, Url = url, Thumbnail = thumbnail,
});
}
}
}
}
private void ProcessPage(string htmlPage)
{
MatchCollection result = Regex.Matches(htmlPage, Pattern, RegexOptions.Singleline);
for (int ctr = 0; ctr <= result.Count - 1; ctr++)
{
if (result[ctr].Value.Contains("yt-uix-button-subscription-container\">") ||
result[ctr].Value.Contains("\"instream\":true"))
{
continue; // Don't add to the list of search results if the value is a channel or live stream.
}
// Title
title = result[ctr].Groups[1].Value;
// Author
author = VideoItemHelper.cull(result[ctr].Value, "/user/", "class").Replace('"', ' ').TrimStart()
.TrimEnd();
if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(author))
{
author = VideoItemHelper.cull(result[ctr].Value, " >", "</a>");
if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(author))
{
noAuthor = true;
}
}
// Description
description = VideoItemHelper.cull(result[ctr].Value, "dir=\"ltr\" class=\"yt-uix-redirect-link\">",
"</div>");
if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(description))
{
description = VideoItemHelper.cull(result[ctr].Value,
"<div class=\"yt-lockup-description yt-ui-ellipsis yt-ui-ellipsis-2\" dir=\"ltr\">", "</div>");
if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(description))
{
noDesc = true;
}
}
// Duration
duration = VideoItemHelper
.cull(VideoItemHelper.cull(result[ctr].Value, "id=\"description-id-", "span"), ": ", "<")
.Replace(".", "");
// Url
url = string.Concat(YtWatchUrl, VideoItemHelper.cull(result[ctr].Value, "watch?v=", "\""));
// Thumbnail
thumbnail = YtThumbnailUrl + VideoItemHelper.cull(result[ctr].Value, "watch?v=", "\"") +
"/mqdefault.jpg";
// View Count
{
string strView = VideoItemHelper.cull(result[ctr].Value, "</li><li>", "</li></ul></div>");
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(strView) && !string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(strView))
{
string[] strParsedArr =
strView.Split(new string[] { " " }, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);
string parsedText = strParsedArr[0];
parsedText = parsedText.Trim().Replace(",", ".");
viewCount = parsedText;
}
}
// Remove playlists
if (title != "__title__" && duration != "")
{
// Add item to list
items.Add(new VideoInformation()
{
Title = title, Author = author, Description = description, Duration = duration, Url = url,
Thumbnail = thumbnail, NoAuthor = noAuthor, NoDescription = noDesc, ViewCount = viewCount
});
}
// Reset values to default for next loop.
noAuthor = false;
noDesc = false;
}
}