Used within Chewb Dash Player.

Get youtube dash chunks ready to be added to a video with Media Source Extensions

Uses a websocket client to request youtube buffer chunks from Chewb which is the socket server you connect to.

Use

Connect to a Chewb with socket.io-client

const socket = new YoutubeSocket(socketClient)

promised with bluebird

dash

Get sidx - this describes the ranges to request

socket
.getSidx({itags:["136"]}, options, { id: vId }))
.then(sidx => {
})

Get range

socket.getVideoRange({
        uuid: uuid, //optional, for caching
        url: url, //from the 'sidx'
        range: range //from the 'sidx'
      })

youtube

Interface with youtube api.

socket.youtube.playlistItems({
        playlistId,
        force: true, //get new uncached items
        access_token: accessToken //optional, but the envvars will need to be setup in Chewb if false
      })
      .then(results => {

      })
      

	socket.youtube.search({
        q,
        access_token: accessToken
      })
      .then(results => {
      })

socket.youtube.video({
      id,
      access_token: accessToken
    })