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gbuckingham89/youtube-rss-parser
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A simple parser for reading a YouTube RSS feed.

0.4.0(5y ago)2017.2k7MITPHPPHP ^7.1.8|^8.0

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gbuckingham89/youtube-rss-parser
================================

[](#gbuckingham89youtube-rss-parser)

A simple PHP parser for reading a YouTube RSS feed. It provides a object oriented interface for accessing the RSS feed data. Perfect for when you need to access recent videos, but don't want to use the full YouTube API.

Requirements
------------

[](#requirements)

Requires PHP 7.1.8 or greater. Uses *guzzlehttp/guzzle* as a HTTP client and *nesbot/carbon* for handling dates. See `composer.json` for more details.

If you require support for an older PHP version (>=5.5), see [release v0.1.0](https://github.com/gbuckingham89/youtube-rss-parser/tree/v0.1.0).

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

Use [Composer](http://getcomposer.org):

```
composer require gbuckingham89/youtube-rss-parser

```

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

To get started you'll need to create an instance of the parser;

```
$parser = new \Gbuckingham89\YouTubeRSSParser\Parser();

```

You can then load the RSS feed from a URL:

```
$rss_url = 'https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=CHANNEL_ID_HERE';
$parser->loadUrl($rss_url);

```

Or, if you're in a hurry, you can also pass in the URL as the first argument when you instantiate the parser object.

Or if you've already got the XML of RSS feed content as a string, you can load it via that:

```
$rss_content = 'RSS FEED CONTENT';
$parser->loadString($rss_content);

```

Both of these methods then return an instance of `\Gbuckingham89\YouTubeRSSParser\Channel`. You can also access the `channel` property or call the `channel` method on the `Parser` instance to get the `Channel` object.

You can then access the properties of the channel (see the class file). The `videos` property is an array of `\Gbuckingham89\YouTubeRSSParser\Video` objects, on which you can access the properties of the video (see the class file).

Prefer working with arrays? Or JSON? You can simply call the `toArray` or `toJson` on both the `Channel` and `Videos` objects.

Contributing / bugs
-------------------

[](#contributing--bugs)

Just open an issue / pull request if you find a bug, or want to contribute!

Copyright and license
---------------------

[](#copyright-and-license)

Code and documentation copyright 2017 [George Buckingham](https://www.georgebuckingham.com). Code released under the [MIT License](https://github.com/gbuckingham89/eloquent-uuid/blob/master/LICENSE).

###  Health Score

36

—

LowBetter than 79% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity35

Limited adoption so far

Community15

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity62

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 70% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~354 days

Total

5

Last Release

1939d ago

PHP version history (3 changes)v0.1.0PHP >=5.5.0

v0.2.0PHP ^7.1.8

0.3.0PHP ^7.1.8|^8.0

### Community

Maintainers

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