Yt - a Ruby client for the YouTube API

Yt helps you write apps that need to interact with YouTube.

The source code is available on GitHub and the documentation on RubyDoc.

After registering your app, you can run commands like:

channel = Yt::Channel.new id: 'UCwCnUcLcb9-eSrHa_RQGkQQ'
channel.title #=> "Yt Test"

The full documentation is available at rubydoc.info.

A comprehensive guide to Yt

All the classes and methods available are detailed on the Yt homepage:

Please proceed to https://fullscreen.github.io/yt-core for more details and examples.

How to install

To install on your system, run

gem install yt-core

To use inside a bundled Ruby project, add this line to the Gemfile:

gem 'yt-core', '~> 0.1.0'

Since the gem follows Semantic Versioning, indicating the full version in your Gemfile (~> major.minor.patch) guarantees that your project won’t occur in any error when you bundle update and a new version of Yt is released.

How to test

To run live-tests against the YouTube API, type:

rspec

Note that some tests actually hit the YouTube API, and therefore require either an API key or authentication credentials.

In order to run tests marked as :server you need to set up a test YouTube application with access to the YouTube Data API v3 and an environment variable:

• YT_SERVER_API_KEY: API Key of a Google app with access to the YouTube Data API v3

In order to run tests marked as :account you als need to create a client ID and secret and then generate a refresh token for the account you want to use as test. Make sure this account has a channel with at least one playlist:

• YT_ACCOUNT_CLIENT_ID: Client ID of a Google app with access to the YouTube Data API v3
• YT_ACCOUNT_CLIENT_SECRET: Client Secret of a Google app with access to the YouTube Data API v3
• YT_ACCOUNT_REFRESH_TOKEN: Refresh token of a YouTube account for the app above

How to release new versions

If you are a manager of this project, remember to upgrade the Yt gem whenever a new feature is added or a bug gets fixed.

Make sure all the tests are passing on Travis CI, document the changes in HISTORY.md and README.md, bump the version, then run

rake release

Remember that the yt gem follows Semantic Versioning. Any new release that is fully backward-compatible should bump the patch version (0.0.x). Any new version that breaks compatibility should bump the minor version (0.x.0)

How to contribute

Contribute to the code by forking the project, adding the missing code, writing the appropriate tests and submitting a pull request.

In order for a PR to be approved, all the tests need to pass and all the public methods need to be documented and listed in the guides. Remember:

• to run all tests locally: bundle exec rspec
• to generate the docs locally: bundle exec yard
• to list undocumented methods: bundle exec yard stats --list-undoc
• to launch the guides locally: bundle exec jekyll s -s docs