require 'rexml/document' require 'cgi' require 'open-uri' module YoutubeSearch def self.search(query, options={}) options = options_with_per_page_and_page(options) query = options.merge(:q => query).map{|k,v| "#{CGI.escape k.to_s}=#{CGI.escape v.to_s}" }.join('&') xml = open("http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos?#{query}").read parse(xml) end def self.parse(xml) entries = [] doc = REXML::Document.new(xml) doc.elements.each('feed/entry') do |p| entry = Hash[p.children.map do |child| [child.name, child.text] end] entry['video_id'] = entry['id'].split('/').last entries << entry end entries end private def self.options_with_per_page_and_page(options) options = options.dup if per_page = options.delete(:per_page) options['max-results'] = per_page else per_page = options['max-results'] end if per_page and page = options.delete(:page) options['start-index'] = per_page.to_i * ([page.to_i, 1].max - 1) end options end end