Youtube PubSubHubBub Notification Application

A server side Nodejs application that subscribes to and receives push notifications from YouTube's Data API. Push notifications are received for a specific YouTube channel for the following events:

• New video is uploaded
• A video’s title is updated
• A video’s description is updated

Why I created this project

I work as a backend enigineer and I work a lot with third party applications that implement webhooks. It took me a while to figure out how to programmatically receive push notifications from YouTube's API. I had to tinker with someone else's python code (I am not a python dev) to get an idea and then write my own program in Nodejs and typescript. So, I hope this helps someone. Cheers!

Start up server

npm start

Compile typescript

npm run dev

Link to my blog post on this project

How to Subscribe to and Receive Push Notifications from YouTube’s API using Typescript and Nodejs

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