Scrapes YouTube video data with ID, and returns title, description, channel, views and gameName (if it's a game video)

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes.

• Installed local Node.js environment
• Package manager to install packages. Yarn or npm

Clone the repo in your environment

git clone https://github.com/gnurgeldiyev/youtube-video-scraper.git

# move into project folder
cd youtube-video-scraper

# install the dependencies
yarn install

# rename the .env.sample
mv .env.sample .env

# add your variables
nano .env

yarn start

# GET - /{videoId}
curl localhost:3000/h8OX0FNWANM

{
  "status": true,
  "title": "Recognizing Ignaz Semmelweis and Handwashing",
  "description": "Today’s Doodle follows the official guidelines ...",
  "channel": "GoogleDoodles",
  "views": "56188961"
}

yarn test

• Express - The web framework used
• Puppeteer - For web scraping
• Jest - For testing
• SuperTest - For testing HTTP API

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details