RMYouTubeExtractor provides an easy way to obtain MP4 URLs for your iOS apps by providing a YouTube video identifier.

This library borrows code from XCDYouTubeVideoPlayerViewController by Cédric Luthi - sans the MPMoviePlayerController, allowing you to just extract the URLs and roll your own player.

• iOS 7 (uses NSURLSession)
• ARC

pod “RMYouTubeExtractor”

then

$ pod install

1. Add RMYouTubeExtractor.h and RMYouTubeExtractor.m to your project
2. @import AVFoundation;

[[RMYouTubeExtractor sharedInstance] extractVideoForIdentifier:youtubeID
                                                    completion:^(NSDictionary *videoDictionary, NSError *error) {
                                                        }];

The instance returns a dictionary with up to 4 video qualities: 240p, 360p, 720p and 1080p. 1080p is rare.

Don’t forget to check for empty dictionary / errors.

See demo project for an example of how to use the extractor.

##Credit

Developed by Rune Madsen (@runmad and runmad.com).

Credit to Cédric Luthi for his work on extraction code.

##Feedback

I appreciate feedback. Create Github issues, pull requests or connect with me on Twitter.

I'd love to see and hear from you if you use it in a project.

RMYouTubeExtractor is available under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for more information.