Playlist items

Yt::PlaylistItem represents a YouTube playlist item. Initialize using its YouTube ID:

item = Yt::PlaylistItem.new id: 'UEwtTGVUdXRjOUdSS0Qze'
# => #<Yt::PlaylistItem:0x... @id=UEwtTGVUdXRjOUdSS0Qze>

Authentication

Most methods of Yt::PlaylistItem retrieve public data from YouTube (e.g.: fetch an item’s position).
To use these methods (marked with   below), you only need to generate an API key and configure:

Yt.configuration.api_key = "<your api key>"                     ## use your API key
item = Yt::PlaylistItem.new id: 'UEwtTGVUdXRjOUdSS0Qze' ## use any playlist item ID
item.position # => 0

List of Yt::PlaylistItem data methods

any authentication works Playlist item’s snippet

→ Yt docsitem.id # => "UEwtTGVUdXRjOUdSS0Qze"
→ Yt docsitem.title # => "First public video"
→ Yt docsitem.description # => "A YouTube video to test the yt gem."
→ Yt docsitem.published_at # => 2016-11-18 23:40:55 UTC
→ Yt docsitem.thumbnail_url # => "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/gknzFj_0vvY/default.jpg"
→ Yt docsitem.channel_id # => "UCwCnUcLcb9-eSrHa_RQGkQQ"
→ Yt docsitem.channel_title # => "Yt Test"
→ Yt docsitem.playlist_id # => "PL-LeTutc9GRKD3yBDhnRF_yE8UTaQI5Jf"
→ Yt docsitem.position # => 0
→ Yt docsitem.video_id # => "gknzFj_0vvY"

any authentication works Playlist item’s status

→ Yt docsitem.privacy_status # => "public"

To limit the number of HTTP requests, use select to specify which parts of the item’s data to load:

slow = item # => without select: 2 HTTP requests
slow.title # => one HTTP request to fetch the item’s snippet
slow.privacy_status # => => another HTTP request to fetch the item’s status

→ Yt docsfast = item.select :snippet, :status # => with select: 1 HTTP request
fast.title # => one HTTP request to fetch both the item’s snippet and status
fast.privacy_status # => => no extra HTTP requests