YouTube API

July 22, 2019 1 min read youtube, nodejs

Written in 2019. Tools, APIs and prices may have changed since.

Lab note What I wrote down while learning this by building with it. Short by design; the code is in pfeilbr/youtube-api-playground.

learn youtube api using node.js

Running

# install deps
npm install

# setup your .env with your youtube api key
cp .env.sample .env

# run
npm start

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