Video description not keeping the \n

[CypElf]

When searching for videos and looking at one's description attribute, we can see the line feeds are not kept. They are instead replaced with spaces. Is it the expected behavior, and if so, how to get the original description with the line feeds?

[talmobi]

Hello there,

Can you provide an example search term on youtube that has search results with this working as expected?

[talmobi]

I think youtube intentionally only provides a small limited view of the video description in the search results.

If you want the full description, you should try making another request for that specific video's metadata which should contain it in full and include newlines etc.

example: https://runkit.com/talmobi/runkit-npm-yt-search-video

[CypElf]

It seems to be the case with all videos, but it happens for example with this one.
Fetching again the informations about the specific video is a good workaround, however it means 2 requests are needed, which are not instant. Is it a limitation of YouTube's API ? I didn't really look into that.

[talmobi]

This library does not use the YouTube API at all.

It uses the same requests that you would make when you open youtube as a user. This is why when you enter a search term, you get the results with minimal description -- because that's how it looks like when you search for something on youtube.

Your example is a specific video, not general search results.

For example compare the search results for the search term "hiroyuki sawano" https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=hiroyuki+sawano

All of these results have minimal descriptions without newlines etc.

These are the kind of results that this library returns, it does not use the YouTube API at all.

If you need more thorough results you should try using YoutTube's own API.