Youtube Video Search by Codecs

CLI to filter Youtube videos based on the desired Audio/Video Codec

Requirements

• An API Key from Google Developers Console. You can get one here.
• youtube-dl installed. If you are on Linux: snap install youtube-dl

Quick start

Pass in your API_KEY and your QUERY and you are good to go :).

By default it will filter videos that contain Surround Codecs. You can see the Codecs codes on this page.

git clone git@github.com:gugacavalieri/youtube-video-codec-search.git
[npm|yarn] install
env API_KEY=<> QUERY="Full Concert" [npm|yarn] run search

Additional Parameters:

You can pass these as Environment Variables if you want. You can also look at the full docs

Name	Description	Required	Default
PAGE_TOKEN	The **pageToken** parameter identifies a specific page in the result set that should be returned.	No	''
QUERY	The **q** parameter specifies the query term to search for.	No	'full concert'
API_KEY	Youtube API Key	Yes	-
MAX_RESULTS	The **maxResults** parameter specifies the maximum number of items that should be returned in the result set. Acceptable values are 0 to 50, inclusive.	No	50
TYPE	The **type** parameter restricts a search query to only retrieve a particular type of resource. The value is a comma-separated list of resource types.	No	'video'
VIDEO_DURATION	The **videoDuration** parameter filters video search results based on their duration.	No	'long'

Desired Codecs

If you want to narrow/broaden your search, you can tweak this line of code:

/**
 * Youtube Surround Codes Lookup table
 */
const DESIRED_CODEC_CODES = {
  // uncomment these lines to look for other codecs as well
  // 141: 'AAC_STEREO_256_KBPS',
  // 251: 'OPUS_STEREO_160_KBPS',
  258: 'AAC_SURROUND_384_KBPS',
  256: 'AAC_SURROUND_192_KBPS',
  327: 'AAC_SURROUND_256_KBPS',
  338: 'WEBM_QUAD_480_KBPS',
};