https://github.com/myflashlab/AS3-youtube-parser-video-link

This AS3 library can parse standard youtube links like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QowwaefoCec and will extract different elements of that video like available direct video addresses and video thumbnail. it works with public unrestricted video files only.
https://github.com/myflashlab/AS3-youtube-parser-video-link

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This AS3 library can parse standard youtube links like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QowwaefoCec and will extract different elements of that video like available direct video addresses and video thumbnail. it works with public unrestricted video files only.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/myflashlab/AS3-youtube-parser-video-link
• Owner: myflashlab
• Created: 2015-02-01T13:16:12.000Z (almost 10 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2020-03-22T10:20:29.000Z (almost 5 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-08-03T05:02:52.158Z (5 months ago)
• Language: ActionScript
• Size: 82 KB
• Stars: 20
• Watchers: 10
• Forks: 8
• Open Issues: 1
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  • Readme: README.md

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README

        
## AS3-youtube-parser-video-link ##

This AS3 library can parse standard youtube links like **https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QowwaefoCec** 

and will extract different elements of that video like available direct video addresses, video title

and video thumbnail. It works with public unrestricted video files only.

I must add that I wrote this library after being inspired by https://github.com/jeckman/YouTube-Downloader

It works on Android/iOS/Windows/Mac AIR projects.

USAGE:

```actionscript

import com.doitflash.remote.youtube.YouTubeLinkParser;

import com.doitflash.remote.youtube.YouTubeLinkParserEvent;

import com.doitflash.remote.youtube.VideoType;

import com.doitflash.remote.youtube.VideoQuality;

var _ytParser:YouTubeLinkParser = new YouTubeLinkParser();

_ytParser.addEventListener(YouTubeLinkParserEvent.COMPLETE, onComplete);

_ytParser.addEventListener(YouTubeLinkParserEvent.ERROR, onError);

_ytParser.parse("https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QowwaefoCec");

function onError(e:YouTubeLinkParserEvent):void

{

	// removing listeners just for clean cosing reasons!

	_ytParser.removeEventListener(YouTubeLinkParserEvent.COMPLETE, onComplete);

	_ytParser.removeEventListener(YouTubeLinkParserEvent.ERROR, onError);

	trace("Error: " + e.param.msg);

}

function onComplete(e:YouTubeLinkParserEvent):void

{

	// removing listeners just for clean coding reasons!

	_ytParser.removeEventListener(YouTubeLinkParserEvent.COMPLETE, onComplete);

	_ytParser.removeEventListener(YouTubeLinkParserEvent.ERROR, onError);

         

	trace("youTube parse completed...");

	trace("video thumb: " + _ytParser.thumb);

	trace("video title: " + _ytParser.title);

	trace("possible found videos: " + _ytParser.videoFormats.length);

	      

	trace("you can only access youtube public videos... no age restriction for example!");

	trace("some video formats may be null so you should check their availablily...");

	trace("to make your job easier, I built another method called getHeaders() which will load video headers for you! you can know the video size using these header information :) ");

	

	// let's find the VideoType.VIDEO_MP4 video format in VideoQuality.MEDIUM for this video

	// NOTICE: you should find your own way of selecting a video format! as different videos may not have all formats or qualities available!

	      

	var chosenVideo:String;

	for (var i:int = 0; i < _ytParser.videoFormats.length; i++) 

	{

		var currVideoData:Object = _ytParser.videoFormats[i];

		if (currVideoData.mimeType.indexOf(VideoType.VIDEO_MP4) > -1 && currVideoData.quality == VideoQuality.MEDIUM)

		{

			chosenVideo = currVideoData.url;

			break;

		}

	}

	_ytParser.addEventListener(YouTubeLinkParserEvent.VIDEO_HEADER_RECEIVED, onHeadersReceived);

	_ytParser.addEventListener(YouTubeLinkParserEvent.VIDEO_HEADER_ERROR, onHeadersError);

	_ytParser.getHeaders(chosenVideo);

}

     

function onHeadersError(e:YouTubeLinkParserEvent):void

{

	_ytParser.removeEventListener(YouTubeLinkParserEvent.VIDEO_HEADER_RECEIVED, onHeadersReceived);

	_ytParser.removeEventListener(YouTubeLinkParserEvent.VIDEO_HEADER_ERROR, onHeadersError);

         

	trace("Error: " + e.param.msg)

}

     

function onHeadersReceived(event:YouTubeLinkParserEvent):void

{

	_ytParser.removeEventListener(YouTubeLinkParserEvent.VIDEO_HEADER_RECEIVED, onHeadersReceived);

	_ytParser.removeEventListener(YouTubeLinkParserEvent.VIDEO_HEADER_ERROR, onHeadersError);

         

	var lng:int = event.param.headers.length;

	var i:int;

	var currHeader:*;

         

	for (i = 0; i < lng; i++ )

	{

		currHeader = event.param.headers[i];

		trace(currHeader.name + " = " + currHeader.value);

	}

         

	// ok, we are happy! now let's download this video, like any other file you would download:

	download(event.param.url);

}

```