YoutubeJExtractor is Android library that allows you to extract youtube video and audio from any youtube video along with some other data such as a video title, description, author, thumbnails and others.
This library was initially created for my android app Youtube audio player
YoutubeJExtractor youtubeJExtractor = new YoutubeJExtractor();
YoutubeVideoData videoData;
try {
videoData = youtubeJExtractor.extract(videoId);
}
catch (ExtractionException e) {
// Something really bad happened, nothing we can do except just show some error notification to the user
}
catch (YoutubeRequestException e) {
// Possibly there are some connection problems, ask user to check the internet connection and then retry
}YoutubeVideoData is an object that contains data for the requested video split across two main objects: VideoDetails and StreamingData.
- VideoDetails contains various video data such as title, description, author, rating, view count, etc.
- StreamingData contains two fields with the lists of streams (video and audio), dashManifestUrl and hlsManifestUrl fields which are contains links to the DASH and HLS manifests (if you dealing with a live stream) and expiresInSeconds which indicates how long links will be alive.
To get all the video streams:
List<VideoStreamItem> videoStreamsList = videoData.getStreamingData().getVideoStreamItems()Each StreamItem object contains fields that describe the stream such as it's extension (like mp4, ogg, etc), codec, bitrate, url and many others. Check VideoStreamItem.class and AudioStreamItem.class for the details.
Tested on API 16+.
Youtube-dl - the idea and implementation were influenced by Youtube-dl
Distributed under the GPL v2 License. See LICENSE.md for terms and conditions.