YouTubeMusicAPI 1.2.0

YouTubeMusicAPI is a simple and efficient wrapper for the internal YouTube Music Web API for dotnet & C# developers. This library allows you to easily search for songs, videos, albums, community playlists, artists, podcasts, podcast episodes & profiles on YouTube Music.

Installation

To install YouTubeMusicAPI, add the following package to your project:

dotnet add package YouTubeMusicAPI

Usage

Search

// Search for items directly
YouTubeMusicClient client = new();

IEnumerable<IShelfItem> searchResults = await client.SearchAsync<IShelfItem>(query, limit);
foreach (IShelfItem item in searchResults)
  Console.WriteLine($"{item.Kind}: {item.Name} - {item.Id}");

// Search for shelves
YouTubeMusicClient client = new();

IEnumerable<Shelf> shelves = await client.SearchAsync(query, null, null);
foreach (Shelf shelf in shelves)
{
  Console.WriteLine($"{shelf.Kind}: Next Continuation Token-{shelf.NextContinuationToken}");

  foreach (IShelfItem item in shelf.Items)
    Console.WriteLine($"{item.Kind}: {item.Name} - {item.Id}");
}

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Search for specific item only (songs, videos, albums, community playlists, artists, podcasts, podcast episodes profiles)

// Search for songs directly
YouTubeMusicClient client = new();

IEnumerable<Song> searchResults = await client.SearchAsync<Song>(query);
foreach (Song song in searchResults)
  Console.WriteLine($"{song.Name}, {string.Join(", ", song.Artists.Select(artist => artist.Name))} - {song.Album.Name}");

// Search for the songs shelves
YouTubeMusicClient client = new();

IEnumerable<Shelf> shelves = await client.SearchAsync(query, null, ShelfKind.Songs);
foreach (Shelf shelf in shelves)
{
  Console.WriteLine($"{shelf.Kind}: Next Continuation Token-{shelf.NextContinuationToken}");

  foreach (IShelfItem item in shelf.Items)
  {
    Song song = (Song)item;
    Console.WriteLine($"{song.Name}, {string.Join(", ", song.Artists.Select(artist => artist.Name))} - {song.Album.Name}");
  }
}

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Get information about a song/video, album, community playlist & artist

// Song/Video
YouTubeMusicClient client = new();

SongVideoInfo info = await client.GetSongVideoInfoAsync(id);
Console.WriteLine($"{info.Name}, {string.Join(", ", info.Artists.Select(artist => artist.Name))} - {info.Description}");

// Album
YouTubeMusicClient client = new();

string browseId = await client.GetAlbumBrowseIdAsync(id);

AlbumInfo info = await client.GetAlbumInfoAsync(browseId);
foreach (AlbumSongInfo song in info.Songs)
  Console.WriteLine($"{song.Name}, {song.SongNumber}/{info.SongCount}");

// Community Playlist
YouTubeMusicClient client = new();

string browseId = client.GetCommunityPlaylistBrowseId(id);

CommunityPlaylistInfo info = await client.GetCommunityPlaylistInfoAsync(browseId);
foreach (CommunityPlaylistSongInfo song in info.Songs)
  Console.WriteLine($"{song.Name}, {string.Join(", ", song.Artists.Select(artist => artist.Name))} - {song.Album?.Name}");

// Artist
YouTubeMusicClient client = new();

ArtistInfo info = await client.GetArtistInfoAsync(id);
foreach (ArtistSongInfo song in info.Songs)
  Console.WriteLine($"{song.Name}, {string.Join(", ", song.Artists.Select(artist => artist.Name))} - {song.Album?.Name}");

Shelves

In the usage samples you may have noticed there are two ways to search for something via this Wrapper - directly for the items or the "shelf".
But what is a shelf? The internal YouTube Music API returns so called "shelves" when searching. A shelf is like a container for search results like songs, videos etc.
Each shelf has a kind which says what items it contains for example "Songs". A Shelf is also contains the 'Next Continuation Token' which is useful if you want to dynamically load more search results (e.g. when scrolling on a page).

If all of this sounds kind of useless to you, dont worry! You can just use the search method with a generic type SearchAsync<IShelfItem>() instead, this also contains a property to limit the search result so you dont have to manually implement that with the 'Next Continuation Token'.
This handles all the shelf stuff in the background and returns a list of all your search results.

License

This project is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0. See the LICENSE file for details.

Contact

For questions, suggestions or problems, please open an issue with a detailed description.