Youku for Node.js

An asyncronous client library for the Youku REST api.

var Youku = require('youku');
 
var client = new Youku({
  client_id: ''
  client_secret: ''
  redirect_uri: ''
});
 
client.get('videos/by_user', {
  user_id: 77296796
}, function(error, data, response){
  if (error) {
    return console.log("Error: " + error);
  }
  console.log(data);
});

Installation

npm install youku-client

Quick Start

You will need a developer client_id from Youku, which can be obtained here. If using chrome and you don't speak chinese, right-click anywhere on the page and select "Translate to (your language)".

I highly recommend placing your credentials somewhere private and safe.

var config = require('/keys/youku.json');
var client = new Youku({
  client_id: config.client_id,
  client_secret: config.client_secret
});

To make GET and POST requests:

client.get(path, params, callback);
client.post(path, params, callback);

Making Requests

Youku API documentation can be found here. Though youku provides an english language version of the site, it's incomplete. I'll be adding API documentation to this repository when I get around to it.

Get data about a video:

client.get('videos/show', {
  video_id: XODkyODA3MjI4
}, function(err, video, resp) {
  if (err) {
    return console.log("Error: " + err);
  }
  console.log(video);
  return console.log(resp);
});

Follow user:

client.post('users/show', {
  user_name: "Ｈ＆Ｍ"
}, function(err, user, resp) {
  if (err) {
    return console.log("Error: " + err);
  }
  console.log(user);
  return console.log(resp);
});

OAuth2 Authorization

• In order for you to make requests on a user's behalf, you'll need to ubtain an access_token through Youku's oauth authentication flow.

getAuthorizationUrl: use this to build a URL that will redirect your user to the youku login screen. It takes an optional argument, the redirect_uri. If a redirect_uri is not passed in, it'll use the redirect_uri that was provided when the Youku instance was created

authorizeUrl: when Youku redirects back to your redirect_uri, they will send code as a GET parameter. Pass code into authorizeUrl and a callback takes two parameters, err and result in that order. If the call is successful, result will be populated with authorization data.

refreshUrl: Takes refresh_token and a callback. When you receive an authorization object from Youku, you receive a refresh_token. Pass this into refreshUrl to receive a fresh token.

Below is an example of how one might authenticate a user within an ExpressJS app.

var http = require('http');
var express = require('express');
var Youku = require('youku-client');
var app = express();

var client = new Youku({
  client_id: "YOUR_CLIENT_ID",
  client_secret: "YOUR_CLIENT_SECRET",
  redirect_uri: 'http://www.example.com/handleauth'
});

// Send your users here first to authorize
app.get('/authorize_user', function (res) {
  var youku_login_url = client.getAuthorizationUrl();
  res.redirect(youku_login_url);
});

// This is your redirect URI
app.get('/handleauth', function (req, res) {
  client.authorizeUser(req.query.code, function (err, result) {
    if (err) {
      console.log("Auth Failed");
      res.send(err);
    } else {
      console.log("Auth Successful");
      console.log("Access Token: " + result.access_token);
      res.send(result);
    }
  });
});

http.createServer(app).listen(app.get('port'), function () {
  console.log("Express server listening on port " + app.get('port'));
});

Documentation

I've included Youku API documentation in english here for your convenience. Youku provides english documentation on their site, but it's incomplete.

Examples

Examples will go here.

Testing

Add YOUKU_CLIENT_ID and YOUKU_CLIENT_SECRET as environment variables.

to test if developing in the CoffeeScript source file: cake build; mocha test/test.js

to test if developing in compiled JavaScript: mocha test/test.js

Contributors

Authored and maintained by @sjanderson.

License

The MIT License (MIT)

youku-client: Copyright (c) 2015 Steve Anderson

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