# 0xced/XCDYouTubeKit

YouTube video player for iOS, tvOS and macOS

Repository: https://github.com/0xced/XCDYouTubeKit
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/xcdyoutubekit
Language: Objective-C
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: youtube, video, player
Last push: 2024-04-08T15:21:05+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4856, "days_push": 877, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2921, forks 608 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:30.213343+00:00)

## What it is
XCDYouTubeKit is an Objective-C library for playing YouTube videos natively in iOS, tvOS, and macOS apps. It extracts video streams so playback can bypass the slower official web-view iframe player.

## Use cases
- play youtube videos in an ios app
- embed youtube player in macos app
- native youtube video playback on tvos
- stream youtube video without webview
- objective-c youtube player library for ios

## When to choose
- you need native, fast YouTube playback in an Apple-platform app
- you want an Objective-C library with CocoaPods, Carthage, and SPM support

## When to avoid
- you need strict YouTube Terms of Service compliance - the official iframe player API is the sanctioned approach
- you target platforms outside iOS, tvOS, or macOS

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: video-processing, sdk
- domain: media, mobile-development
- platform: cpp
- tags: youtube, video-player, objective-c, tvos, cocoapods, video, ios, macos, swift

## Member repositories
- 0xced/XCDYouTubeKit (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:30.213343+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T07:33:46.698180+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/0xced/XCDYouTubeKit (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:30.213343+00:00, sha 615343ba0f81)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.