YouTube Music API

An unofficial YouTube Music search API

Installation

1. Python 3.9 or later is required.
2. make sure that the latest pip version is installed in your working environment.

pip install -U pip

3. Run the following command given below to install the package:

pip install -U YouTubeMusicAPI

Usage

To use this package, you need to import it in your Python program and call the search function with a query string as an argument. The function will return a dictionary object with the following keys:

• title: The title of the song.
• id: The id of the song on YouTube Music.
• url: The url of the song on YouTube Music.
• artwork: The url of the artwork image of the song.
• author: A dictionary object with two keys: name and url, which represent the name and url of the author of the song.

If no result is found for your query, the function will return None.

Example

Here is an example of how to use this package to search by song name.

import YouTubeMusicAPI

query: str = "alan walker faded"

result = YouTubeMusicAPI.search(query)

if result:
    print(result)
else:
    print("No Result Found")

Output:

{
    "title": "Alan Walker - Faded",
    "id": "60ItHLz5WEA",
    "url": "https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=60ItHLz5WEA",
    "artwork": "https://img.youtube.com/vi/60ItHLz5WEA/0.jpg",
    "author": {
        "name": "Alan Walker",
        "url": "https://www.youtube.com/@Alanwalkermusic"
    }
}