routes/ytApi/search.py

from urllib.request import urlopen, Request
from urllib.parse import quote_plus
import re
from .. import helpers

def search(request):
    searchQuery = helpers.getFromRequest(request, "query")
    if not searchQuery: searchQuery = "rickroll"
    try:
        html = urlopen(
            Request(
                "https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query={}".format(quote_plus(searchQuery)),
                headers={"User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/125.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/125.0.0.0"}
            )
        )
        videoList = re.findall(r"watch\?v=(\S{11})", html.read().decode())
        return {"status": "pass", "query": searchQuery, "videoIds": videoList}
    except Exception as e:
        print(e)
        return {"status": "error", "details": { "error_code": 666, "error_details": "Something went wrong..." }}, 500