cstigler/xcdyoutubekit

YouTube video player for iOS and OS X

About

XCDYouTubeKit is a YouTube video player for iOS and OS X.

Are you enjoying XCDYouTubeKit? You can say thank you with a tweet. I am also accepting donations. ;-)

Requirements

• Runs on iOS 5.0 and later
• Runs on OS X 10.7 and later

Warning

XCDYouTubeKit is against the YouTube Terms of Service. The only official way of playing a YouTube video inside an app is with a web view and the iframe player API. Unfortunately, this is very slow and quite ugly, so I wrote this player to give users a better viewing experience.

Installation

XCDYouTubeKit is available through CocoaPods and Carthage.

CocoaPods:

pod "XCDYouTubeKit", "~> 2.1.1"

Carthage:

github "0xced/XCDYouTubeKit" ~> 2.1.1

Alternatively, you can manually use the provided static library on iOS or dynamic framework on OS X. In order to use the iOS static library, you must:

1. Create a workspace (File → New → Workspace…)
2. Add your project to the workspace
3. Add the XCDYouTubeKit project to the workspace
4. Drag and drop the libXCDYouTubeKit.a file referenced from XCDYouTubeKit → Products → libXCDYouTubeKit.a into the Link Binary With Libraries build phase of your app’s target.

These steps will ensure that #import <XCDYouTubeKit/XCDYouTubeKit.h> will work properly in your project.

Warning: If you use the iOS static library and you are targeting iOS 7, add the JavaScriptCore framework. If you are targeting iOS 5 or 6, you must add the following Other Linker Flags instead to your app:

-Wl,-U,_JSContextGetGlobalObject -Wl,-U,_JSEvaluateScript -Wl,-U,_JSGlobalContextCreate -Wl,-U,_JSGlobalContextRelease -Wl,-U,_JSObjectCallAsFunction -Wl,-U,_JSObjectGetPrototype -Wl,-U,_JSObjectIsFunction -Wl,-U,_JSObjectSetProperty -Wl,-U,_JSStringCopyCFString -Wl,-U,_JSStringCreateWithCFString -Wl,-U,_JSStringRelease -Wl,-U,_JSValueIsObject -Wl,-U,_JSValueIsString -Wl,-U,_JSValueMakeString -Wl,-U,_JSValueToStringCopy

See my JavaScriptCore framework availability on iOS answer on Stack Overflow for a complete explanation.

Usage

XCDYouTubeKit is fully documented.

iOS and OS X

NSString *videoIdentifier = @"EdeVaT-zZt4"; // A 11 characters YouTube video identifier
[[XCDYouTubeClient defaultClient] getVideoWithIdentifier:videoIdentifier completionHandler:^(XCDYouTubeVideo *video, NSError *error) {
	if (video)
	{
		// Do something with the `video` object
	}
	else
	{
		// Handle error
	}
}];

iOS only

On iOS, you can use the class XCDYouTubeVideoPlayerViewController the same way you use a MPMoviePlayerViewController, except you initialize it with a YouTube video identifier instead of a content URL.

Present the video in full-screen

XCDYouTubeVideoPlayerViewController *videoPlayerViewController = [[XCDYouTubeVideoPlayerViewController alloc] initWithVideoIdentifier:@"9bZkp7q19f0"];
[self presentMoviePlayerViewControllerAnimated:videoPlayerViewController];

Present the video in a non full-screen view

XCDYouTubeVideoPlayerViewController *videoPlayerViewController = [[XCDYouTubeVideoPlayerViewController alloc] initWithVideoIdentifier:@"9bZkp7q19f0"];
[videoPlayerViewController presentInView:self.videoContainerView];
[videoPlayerViewController.moviePlayer play];

See the demo project for more sample code.

Credits

The URL extraction algorithms in XCDYouTubeKit are inspired by the YouTube extractor module of the youtube-dl project.

Contact

Cédric Luthi

• http://github.com/0xced
• http://twitter.com/0xced

License

XCDYouTubeKit is available under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for more information.