yt-dlapi

Overview

Unofficial Python API for YouTube.com built with yt-dlp as the backend. This library provides an alternative interface to yt-dlp's Python library that is simpler to use and includes full Pydantic schemas for all responses.

Why

yt-dlp is a great project and does almost exactly what I want, but it returns a dict instead of a schema model of the data. This library creates simpler functions to get information from yt-dlp with full Pydantic models returned instead of a dict which makes the data much easier to work with.

How Does It Work?

This library uses GAPI to automatically create and update all of the Pydantic models for the API responses. The entire library is just a thin wrapper around yt-dlp that adds Pydantic types to the responses.