A client for Invidious' JSON API. No Google API key is required.
Under minimal maintenance. Please, also see my Piped API client for a maintained alternative.
pip install invidious-api-clientfrom invidious_api_client import InvidiousClient
CLIENT = InvidiousClient()
CLIENT.get_video('dQw4w9WgXcQ')See more examples in the tests/ or examples/ folders.
Mass scraping of instances will lead them to being blocked by Google relatively fast. Some instances may block their API access entirely While this package tries to automatically find a working one, I do not encourage mass scraping nor support blocking these innocent instances.
But then again, being blocked is on responsibility of the instance admins. In other words, they should put a security measures in order to avoid being blocked. Some instances probably use proxies to hide their IP address from Google, therefore their API access isn't limited and they can handle many connections in a shorter period of time more than the ones that are at the risk of being blocked by Google.
I support the idea of every website with public content having an easy-to-access REST API. This project was made for people that want a cheap and quick way to access Google's API anonymously, without having to worry about all the API keys and other walls.
