YouTubeMusicAPI 2.1.0

YouTubeMusicAPI is a simple and efficient C# wrapper for the YouTube Music Web API, enabling easy search and retrieval of songs, videos, albums, artists, podcasts, and more. It also provides streaming data and URLs, all with minimal effort.

Getting Started

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

dotnet add package YouTubeMusicAPI

To start using YouTube Music in your project, just create a new YouTubeMusicClient.

YouTubeMusicClient client = new(logger, geographicalLocation, cookies);

Usage

Search

Using this wrapper, you can search in two ways: directly for items or via "shelves." A shelf is a container for search results like songs or videos. Each shelf has a type (e.g., "Songs") and a "Next Continuation Token" to load more results dynamically (e.g., for infinite scrolling on a page).

If this seems complicated, no worries! You can simply use the search method with a generic type SearchAsync<IYouTubeMusicItem>() instead, which also contains a property to limit the search result so you dont have to deal with any of the shelf or token stuff.

// Search for songs directly
IEnumerable<SongSearchResult> searchResults = await client.SearchAsync<SongSearchResult>(query);

foreach (SongSearchResult song in searchResults)
  Console.WriteLine($"{song.Name}, {string.Join(", ", song.Artists.Select(artist => artist.Name))} - {song.Album.Name}");

// Search for the songs using shelves
IEnumerable<Shelf> shelves = await client.SearchAsync(query, null, YouTubeMusicItemKind.Songs);

foreach (Shelf shelf in shelves)
{
  Console.WriteLine($"{shelf.Kind}: Next Continuation Token-{shelf.NextContinuationToken}");

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

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// Search for all kinds directly
IEnumerable<IYouTubeMusicItem> searchResults = await client.SearchAsync<IYouTubeMusicItem>(query, limit);

foreach (IYouTubeMusicItem item in searchResults)
  Console.WriteLine($"{item.Kind}: {item.Name} - {item.Id}");

// Search for shelves including all kinds
IEnumerable<Shelf> shelves = await client.SearchAsync(query, null, null);

foreach (Shelf shelf in shelves)
{
  Console.WriteLine($"{shelf.Kind}: Next Continuation Token-{shelf.NextContinuationToken}");

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

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Getting more information

// Song/Video
SongVideoInfo info = await client.GetSongVideoInfoAsync(id);

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

// Album
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
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
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}");

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Streaming & Downloading

// Getting streaming data of a song
StreamingData streamingData = await client.GetStreamingDataAsync(id);

Console.WriteLine($"Expires in: {streamingData.ExpiresIn}");
Console.WriteLine($"Hls Manifest URL: {streamingData.HlsManifestUrl}");

foreach(MediaStreamInfo streamInfo in streamingData.StreamInfo)
{
  if (streamInfo is VideoStreamInfo videoStreamInfo)
    Console.WriteLine($"Video ({videoStreamInfo.Quality}): {videoStreamInfo.Url}");
  else if (streamInfo is AudioStreamInfo audioStreamInfo)
    Console.WriteLine($"Audio ({audioStreamInfo.SampleRate}): {audioStreamInfo.Url}");
}

// Download highest quality audio stream
StreamingData streamingData = await client.GetStreamingDataAsync(id);

MediaStreamInfo highestAudioStreamInfo = streamingData.StreamInfo
  .OfType<AudioStreamInfo>()
  .OrderBy(info => info.Bitrate)
  .First();
Stream stream = await highestAudioStreamInfo.GetStreamAsync();

using FileStream fileStream = new("audio.m4a", FileMode.Create, FileAccess.Write);
await stream.CopyToAsync(fileStream);

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.