youtube search videos [youtube] [search] [official api]

/*
  nama    : youtube search
  fungsi  : search video di youtube
  base    : www.youtube.com
  node    : v24.4.0
  by      : wolep
  update2 : 14 Juli 2025
  fix     : empty result, filter discard live videos
*/

const youtubeSearch = async (query) => {
    if (typeof (query) !== "string" || query.length === 0) throw Error(`invalid query`)

    const headers = {
        "Accept-Encoding": "gzip, deflate, br, zstd"
    }

    const body = JSON.stringify({
        "context": {
            "client": {
                "hl": "en", // ubah ke id kalau mau result bahasa indo
                "gl": "ID",
                "clientName": "WEB",
                "clientVersion": "2.20250701.09.00",
            },
        },
        "params": "EgIQAQ%3D%3D",
        query
    });

    const response = await fetch('https://www.youtube.com/youtubei/v1/search?prettyPrint=false', { headers, body, "method": "post" })
    if (!response.ok) throw Error(`${response.status} ${response.statusText}\n${await response.text()}`)
    const json = await response.json()

    const result = json.contents.twoColumnSearchResultsRenderer.primaryContents.sectionListRenderer.contents[0].itemSectionRenderer.contents
        .filter(v => v?.videoRenderer?.lengthText?.simpleText).map(v => {
            const vr = v.videoRenderer
            const videoId = vr.videoId
            const obj = {
                videoId,
                title: vr.title.runs[0].text,
                channel: vr.ownerText.runs[0].text,
                url: `https://youtu.be/${videoId}`,
                thumbnail: vr.thumbnail.thumbnails[1]?.url || vr.thumbnail.thumbnails[0]?.url,
                duration: vr.lengthText.simpleText,
                datePassed: vr.publishedTimeText?.simpleText || null,
                views: vr.shortViewCountText.simpleText
            }
            return obj
        })

    if (result.length === 0) throw Error(`tidak bisa menemukan video dari keyword ${query}`)
    return result

}

// youtubeSearch("live lofi")
// .then(j => console.log(JSON.stringify(j)))


/* output
[
  {
    videoId: 'zPyg4N7bcHM',
    title: 'Calm Your Anxiety',
    channel: 'NEOTIC',
    url: 'https://youtu.be/zPyg4N7bcHM',
    thumbnail: 'https://img.youtube.com/vi/zPyg4N7bcHM/maxresdefault.jpg',
    duration: '24:14',
    datePassed: '4 years ago',
    views: '22M views'
  },

  (dan belasan array lainnya....)

]

*/

export default youtubeSearch