A Ruby gem to fetch YouTube annotations

Yt::Annotations is a Ruby library to fetch annotations, cards and end screens of YouTube videos.

The source code is available on GitHub and the documentation on RubyDoc.

How to use

Simply call Yt::Annotations.for with the ID of a YouTube video:

annotations = Yt::Annotations.for 'MESycYJytkU'
# => [#<Yt::Annotations::Featured …>]
annotations.first.text
# => "Suggested by Fullscreen: What is Fullscreen?"
annotations.first.starts_at
# => 76.0
annotations.first.ends_at
# => 86.0
annotations.first.link
# {url: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeMlqbX2Ifg", new_window: true, type: :video}

How to install

Yt::Annotations requires Ruby 2.2.2 or higher.

To include in your project, add gem 'yt-annotations', ~> '1.0' to the Gemfile file of your Ruby project.

How to contribute

If you’ve made it this far in the README… thanks! :v: Feel free to try it the gem, explore the code, and send issues or pull requests.

All pull requests will have to make Travis and Code Climate happy in order to be accepted. :kissing_smiling_eyes:

You can also run the tests locally with bundle exec rspec.

Happy hacking!