https://github.com/JamesKyburz/youtube-audio-stream

youtube audio stream
https://github.com/JamesKyburz/youtube-audio-stream

audio ffmpeg javascript nodejs streams-youtube youtube

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youtube audio stream

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/JamesKyburz/youtube-audio-stream
• Owner: JamesKyburz
• License: other
• Created: 2013-08-14T19:04:14.000Z (about 11 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2023-05-19T01:58:01.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-04-14T05:52:03.937Z (7 months ago)
• Topics: audio, ffmpeg, javascript, nodejs, streams-youtube, youtube
• Language: JavaScript
• Size: 202 KB
• Stars: 348
• Watchers: 10
• Forks: 67
• Open Issues: 10
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# youtube-audio-stream

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This module streams youtube using [ytdl](https://github.com/fent/node-ytdl) to get the youtube download stream.

To convert to audio the module [fluent-ffmpeg](https://github.com/schaermu/node-fluent-ffmpeg) is used.

You will need to have [ffmpeg](http://www.ffmpeg.org/) and the necessary encoding libraries installed, as well as in your PATH.

If you're on OSX, this can be handled easily using [Homebrew](http://brew.sh/) with `brew install ffmpeg`.

## Getting Started

1. With [npm](http://npmjs.org), run `npm install youtube-audio-stream`

2. `const stream = require('youtube-audio-stream')`

## Usage

Here is an example that:

1. queries for a video by video ID

2. Retrieves the audio via this package

3. write it to `res`

```js

const stream = require('youtube-audio-stream')

async function handleView (req, res) {

  try {

    for await (const chunk of stream(`http://youtube.com/watch?v=${req.params.videoId}`)) {

      res.write(chunk)

    }

    res.end()

  } catch (err) {

    console.error(err)

    if (!res.headersSent) {

      res.writeHead(500)

      res.end('internal system error')

    }

  }

}

```

## Node example playing directly to speaker

```js

const stream = require('youtube-audio-stream')

const url = 'http://youtube.com/watch?v=34aQNMvGEZQ'

const decoder = require('lame').Decoder

const speaker = require('speaker')

stream(url)

.pipe(decoder())

.pipe(speaker())

```

## Testing

This package comes with a simple example for testing. This can be run with the command `npm test`, which will then serve the example at `localhost:3000`. The example consists of an `` component whose source is retrieved via this package.

### Testing inside a docker container

You can test this module without the need o have [ffmeg](http://www.ffmpeg.org/) locally installed

doing it inside a container.

To build the Docker image:

```

docker build . -t youtube-audio-stream-test

```

To run the test:

```

docker run --rm -it -p 3000:3000 youtube-audio-stream-test

```