How to fix Youtube API results title that are returned encoded

Question

I\'m using youtube-search 1.1.4 to find videos. The problem is that i get the results titles encoded with & or ' instead of just

Answer 1

You can use the the DOM Parser

var parser = new DOMParser;

let finalResult = parser.parseFromString(results, "text/html")
console.log(finalResult.body.innerHtml); // will turn & to &

Answer 2

After finding a related ticket on google's issue tracker: issuetracker.google.com/u/1/issues/128673539 and got a response from google that this is the expected behaviour and they won't fix it, i just used user 3limin4t0r suggestion and decoded the return value title using he.js library, it's the idle way to solve this but i had no intention to wait for google to come around from their decision...

so, my solution goes like that:

var youtubeSearch = require("youtube-search")
let he            = require('he');

var opts = {
  maxResults  : 15,
  key         : 'MY_API_KEY',
  part        : 'snippet',
  type        : 'video',
};

youtubeSearch('post malone', opts, function(err, results) {
  if(err) return console.log(err);
  results = results.map(item => {
        item.snippet.title = he.decode(item.snippet.title);
        return item;
   });
  console.dir(results);
});