YoutubeVideo

Intro

A Javascript library to access the WebM (and other) streams for Youtube Videos.

This is a little script we've extracted from http://omgig.com to directly access the WebM (and other formats) streams for Youtube Videos.

Dependencies

• jQuery

Usage

var youtubeId = "Q4-MnX5PfO8";
YoutubeVideo(youtubeId, function(video){
  console.log(video.title);
  var webmUrl = video.getSource("video/webm", "medium");
  console.log("WebM: " + webmUrl);
  var mp4Url = video.getSource("video/mp4", "medium");
  console.log("MP4: " + mp4Url);

  $("<video controls='controls'/>").attr("src", webmUrl).appendTo("body");
});