ytSearchWithoutAPI

ytSearchWithoutAPI.js

const https = require('https');


/**
 * Define our function
 */
const ytSearchResult = (song) =>{

  // return promised result
  return new Promise((resolve, reject) =>{

    // Send get request to the youtube
    https.get(`https://www.youtube.com/results?q=${encodeURIComponent(song)}&hl=en`, (res) => {

      // Init data string
      let data = '';

      // Append data
      res.on('data', (chunk) => {
          data += chunk;
      });

      // Event fired on stream finish
      res.on('end', () => {

        // Our exporting id list 
        let idlist = [];

        // Match all results
        const ids = data.match(/{"url":"\/watch\?v=(.{11})"/g);

        // Parse trough them and get id
        ids.forEach((string, index) =>{

          // Data is not well formated so we need to split returned string
          idlist.push(string.split('=')[1]);
          
          // Check if we have reached end of array
          if((index + 1) === ids.length){
            
            // If yes resolve with id array list
            resolve(idlist);
          }

        });

      });

    }).on("error", (err) => {
        reject(err);
    }); 
  });
}

// Call function
ytSearchResult('best song').then(data => {

  // Log array id
  console.log(data)

}).catch(err => console.log(err.toString()))

/** 
 * Example
 * 
 * [
  'NSRobDsUb54"', 'o_v9MY_FMcw"',
  'k_on7zgBPUA"', 'qclWIFxq2F4"',
  'lyIhRNPCNiw"', 'HPkydJOXXNs"',
  'cW9EdTbkWfc"', '-ObdvMkCKws"',
  'jRS6cGbr3Og"', 'LwOQdoYKQ5k"',
  'HigTewy3OTM"', '5D8KR6_wPU0"',
  'LpfMVFY1TOM"', 'AOMU6qcOFW0"',
  'P51_8HMI150"', 'DQ2Ru2obvQE"',
  'UgfsbL-uHOA"', '4HD_pJpQ4SQ"',
  'X3e2oPpX5ek"', 'cWm8OXGUHZQ"',
  '5mFTXbZzOAE"', 'nntmY825J64"',
  'OlRKpevb-Gs"', 'GKSRyLdjsPA"',
  'o_cikTgwMXY"', 'lbPhbuO4wc4"',
  'Zf94v3vTGQc"', '7zT8omdej4c"'
]
 */