Add `shorts` and `lives` to `channel`

[kooki45]

Is there a way to get channel streams / shorts ? I used to get a channel streams in channel.videos, but I cant find any streams in channel.videos anymore.

Thankyou

[SuspiciousLookingOwl]

I think this happens because YouTube now has a separate tab for Short and Live on channel page, so currently there's no way to get channel's shorts and live streams.

[RikiNozomu]

I think this happens because YouTube now has a separate tab for Short and Live on channel page, so currently there's no way to get channel's shorts and live streams.

Are You sure? I see https://github.com/LuanRT/YouTube.js can do it.

[SuspiciousLookingOwl]

so currently there's no way to get channel's shorts and live streams

by that, I mean there's no way to do that using this library.

[SuspiciousLookingOwl]

shorts and live are now on channel on dev branch, you can use the dev branch by running

npm i git://github.com/suspiciouslookingowl/youtubei.git#dist

although I'm planning to do some (possibly breaking) changes before merging to main

[CharlesKiarie]

Hi SuspiciousLookingOwl, Hope you are well :)

I was trying to get past live streams and it seems

const channelVideos = channel?.live returns undefined

However I can get the first 14 live streams if I use

const channelVideos = channel?.shelves[0].items.length

Could I be doing something wrong when using channel.live?

[SuspiciousLookingOwl]

@CharlesKiarie make sure you are already using the dev branch.

Can you give me a channel id for an example? I just tried the code locally and it works fine.

[SuspiciousLookingOwl]

Available on 1.2.0 with no breaking changes

[CharlesKiarie]

@SuspiciousLookingOwl I installed the dev branch $ npm i git://github.com/suspiciouslookingowl/youtubei.git#dist

You can try this channel id UCP4nMSTdwU1KqYWu3UH5DHQ.

I am using the getChannel method and it returns a channel but const channelVideos = channel.live returns undefined.

async function getLiveStreams() {
    const channel = await youtube.getChannel("UCP4nMSTdwU1KqYWu3UH5DHQ");
    const channelVideos = channel?.live
    console.log(channelVideos)  // returns undefined
}

getLiveStreams()

• I am using it in next js which could be an issue I just don't know yet.
• My goal would be to get all the livestreams and save them to a database.

Appreciate any help

[SuspiciousLookingOwl]

Just tested this code on Node and it's working fine

const channel = await client.getChannel("UCP4nMSTdwU1KqYWu3UH5DHQ");
if (channel) {
    const live = await channel.live.next();
    console.log(live[0].title); // 【WEEKLY SCHEDULE】feel free to hang out here~【NIJISANJI EN | Pomu Rainpuff】
}

Running it on backend side of Next.js (API routes) should work fine. If you are doing it on the client side, then that might the cause, because as far as I know, this library doesn't work on the browser due to CORS

[CharlesKiarie]

Thanks I needed .next() it works now. I also figured out using next with an argument of 0 .next(0) gets all the vods. 🙏

p.s. I would love to help improve your documentation/readme something I can do over the weekend and make a pull request.

[SuspiciousLookingOwl]

@CharlesKiarie there was a documentation error which was fixed here: https://github.com/SuspiciousLookingOwl/youtubei/commit/411cc17b75e7f01a3e9a88e4a93d3a948403a8fd

You should be able to read about ChannelLive and ChannelShorts on the doc now 😃