youtubei.js 1.4.5
A full-featured wrapper around the InnerTube API — which is what YouTube itself uses.
youtubei.js@1.4.5 was published on 2022-08-12. Its manifest declares 5 runtime dependencies and 0 peer requirements. Type declarations are bundled according to the package metadata. The declared Node.js requirement is >=14.
All youtubei.js versions · Permanent reference to 1.4.5 · Latest release
Package specifications
| Version | 1.4.5 |
|---|---|
| License declaration | MIT |
| Published | 2022-08-12T00:37:28.446Z |
| Node.js requirement | >=14 |
| Type declarations | Bundled declarations |
| Runtime dependency count | 5 |
| Peer requirement count | 0 |
| Optional dependency count | 0 |
| Minified size | Measurement not available yet |
| Minified + gzip | Measurement not available yet |
| Unpacked distribution size | 326.45 KiB |
| Published file count | 97 |
| Package type | Not declared |
| ES module entry | Not declared |
| Default entry | index.js |
| Side effects declaration | Not declared |
| Direct advisories | 0 |
| Resolved graph dependencies | 9 |
| Repository stars | 5387 |
| Repository forks | 448 |
Install youtubei.js 1.4.5
npm install youtubei.js@1.4.5 pnpm add youtubei.js@1.4.5 yarn add youtubei.js@1.4.5
Runtime dependencies
- flat ^5.0.2
- uuid ^8.3.2
- axios ^0.21.4
- user-agents ^1.0.778
- protocol-buffers-encodings ^1.1.1
Peer requirements
- None declared
Optional dependencies
- None declared
Resolved dependency graph
This deps.dev graph describes a generic 64-bit Linux environment, not your application lockfile.
- axios@0.21.4 — direct
- b4a@1.9.0 — indirect
- flat@5.0.2 — direct
- follow-redirects@1.16.2 — indirect
- protocol-buffers-encodings@1.2.0 — direct
- signed-varint@2.0.1 — indirect
- user-agents@1.1.675 — direct
- uuid@8.3.2 — direct
- varint@5.0.0 — indirect
How to interpret the specifications
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Advisories apply to this package version directly; transitive dependencies need separate inspection. Repository signals describe the whole repository and are current observations, including on historical-version pages.
Evidence and freshness
- https://registry.npmjs.org/youtubei.js/1.4.5 — retrieved 2026-10-30T20:16:24.449Z
- https://api.deps.dev/v3/projects/github.com%2FLuanRT%2FYouTube.js — retrieved 2026-10-30T15:33:10.219Z
- https://api.deps.dev/v3/systems/npm/packages/youtubei.js/versions/1.4.5 — retrieved 2026-10-30T20:16:24.964Z
- https://api.deps.dev/v3/systems/npm/packages/youtubei.js/versions/1.4.5:dependencies — retrieved 2026-10-30T20:16:24.974Z