Youtube Video Search API

API to fetch latest videos sorted in reverse chronological order of their publishing date-time from YouTube for a given tag/search query in a paginated response.

Approach

1. Get the youtube video metadata(title, description, publishing datetime, thumbnails URLs, etc.) using the Youtube Data API in a goroutine.
2. Store the metadata in a database.
3. Create an API to fetch the metadata from the database in a paginated response sorted in reverse chronological order of publishing datetime.

Stack

• Golang : supports concurrency and is fast
• GoFiber : fast and lightweight web framework
• Postgres : fast and reliable relational database

How to run

• Ensure Go and Postgres are installed

• Ensure the Postgres server is running and the database that you want to use is created

• Clone the repository

• Copy the .env.example file to .env and update the values

  • Pro tip: Supply multiple API KEYs as a comma separated values to avoid hitting the quota limit

• Build and run the application

go build -o ./build/main && ./build/main 

• You can optionally pass the query tag as a command line argument, the default is fampay

go build -o ./build/main && ./build/main cricket

API

• GET /search : Gets the paginated list of videos sorted in reverse chronological order of publishing datetime
  • Query parameters
    • page : page number
    • limit : number of videos per page