Lets build a RedditBot to curate playlist links - III
Tags: rust, tutorial
Published: 2020-08-11 19:04:39

We've reached the final chapter. The spoils are just ahead of us, lets go grab em.

# Obtaining Credentials

We need to generate a different set of credentials to talk with YouTube. Lets go do that step by step..

1. Logon to [Google Developer Console](https://console.developer.google.com)

2. Click `Enable Apis and Service`
![Enable API](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/i/hdqpmrbd1hu5hsoulzdj.png)

3. Search for `YouTube Data API v3`
![YouTube Data API v3](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/i/wl3mybevggxlqbmgvesf.png)

4. Click the `Enable` button to enable the API for our account
![Enable YouTube API](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/i/69ipwnu5ntnmz4jctdc8.png)

5. Click the `Create Credentials` button to start creating credentials for us to use.
![Create Credentials](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/i/iiu41fyb8h89h4xizu8j.png)

6. We need to first describe what kind of credentials have to be generated. Don't worry, just follow the screenshot.
![Generate Credentials](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/i/bgix1krigatizp0qbt6b.png)

7. We're Done! 
![Done](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/i/kjb0e9q1e27mi3fbzqsl.png)

# Handling JSON better

In the last part we used a dynamic JSON to to retrieve the playlist url from Reddit. This time to interact with the YouTube API we wont do that, instead we will one up ourselves and de-serialize the JSON into structs that we define in rust.
> We use [`serde`](https://crates.io/crates/serde) to do handle the heavy lifting of JSON de-serialization

The response of the YouTube API is a bit more well defined than the Reddit API.
```json
{
  "kind": "youtube#playlistItemListResponse",
  "etag": "Fij-lGuELswW5Y6HXEJsEVAZ6Xg",
  "nextPageToken": "CAUQAA",
  "items": [
    {
      "kind": "youtube#playlistItem",
      "etag": "KC_3PIeEyspbfuA_AplI4dv2ITA",
      "id": "UExmM3U4TmhvRWlraFRDNXJhZEdybW1xZGtPSy14TURvWi45ODRDNTg0QjA4NkFBNkQy",
      "snippet": {
        "publishedAt": "2020-08-05T19:31:06Z",
        "channelId": "UC9X86dyEwpbCnpC18qjt33Q",
        "title": "Rusty Days 2020 - Hackathon Submissions",
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          },
          "medium": {
            "url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/QaCvUKrxNLI/mqdefault.jpg",
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            "height": 180
          },
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            "width": 640,
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          }
        },
        "channelTitle": "Rust Wrocław",
        "playlistId": "PLf3u8NhoEikhTC5radGrmmqdkOK-xMDoZ",
        "position": 0,
        "resourceId": {
          "kind": "youtube#video",
          "videoId": "QaCvUKrxNLI"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "kind": "youtube#playlistItem",
      "etag": "EgGMmoAJ81l2BJFspcg1idaKy-8",
      "id": "UExmM3U4TmhvRWlraFRDNXJhZEdybW1xZGtPSy14TURvWi5EMEEwRUY5M0RDRTU3NDJC",
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  ],
  "pageInfo": {
    "totalResults": 9,
    "resultsPerPage": 5
  }
}
```
This JSON response can be constructed from simple structs that we can define.
The `#[derive(Deserialize)]` helps `serde` understand that it can use this struct to deserialize json into by matching the fields of the struct to those of that in the JSON body.
> `serde` is an amazing library and a bit too vast to explain in this post.

```rust
# main.rs

#[derive(Debug, Deserialize)]
struct Snippet {
    title: String,
    position: i32,
}
#[derive(Debug, Deserialize)]
struct Item {
    kind: String,
    snippet: Snippet,
}
#[derive(Debug, Deserialize)]
struct YoutubeResponse {
    items: Vec<Item>,
}
```

Now that we have defined our struct lets go ahead and call the YouTube API.
```rust
# main.rs

let mut reply: String =
    "Sorry couldn't find the YouTube Link! :(".to_string();

if playlist_id.is_some() {
    // Generate api url
    let url = format!("https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/playlistItems?part=snippet&playlistId={}&key={}&maxResults={}",playlist_id.unwrap(), YT_KEY, YT_MAX_RESULT);
                        // Fire the API
    let playlist_items = match reqwest::get(&url).await {
                        // Try to convert the response to our struct
        Ok(response) => match response.json::<YoutubeResponse>().await {
                               // Return the array of Item            Ok(yt_response) => Some(yt_response.items),
            Err(e) => {
                error!(
                    "Couldn't parse playlist response for comment {} reason : {}",
                        &message.data.name, e
                            );
                None
            }
        },
        Err(e) => {
            error!(
                "Couldn't fetch YouTube data for comment {} reason : {}",
                &message.data.name, e
            );
            None
        }
    };
    //Loop over each item and then create the message.
    if playlist_items.is_some() {
        let items = playlist_items.unwrap();
        if items.len() > 0 {
            reply = "Playlist Items: \n".to_string();
            for item in items {
                reply.push_str(
                    format!("\n {} \n", item.snippet.title).as_str(),
                )
            }
        }
    }
}
```

We first define `reply` with the string that we want to respond with if we fail to identify the playlist id.
If we have a playlistID we then call YouTube API with the key we generated earlier. We then extract the items of the playlist generated our reply text. The code that we have written in the previous part already handles replying to the message.
Lets try it out!
```shell
(base) DeltaManiac @ ~/git/rust/vyom
└─ $ cargo run
   Compiling vyom v0.1.0
    Finished dev [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 5.79s
     Running `target/debug/vyom`
[2020-08-11T18:46:46Z INFO  vyom] Replied to t1_g14nya9
[2020-08-11T18:46:46Z INFO  vyom] Marked t1_g14nya9 as read
```
And on Reddit it looks just as beautiful!
![Final](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/i/poxb0f9lmqtufptsvo4j.png)

![](https://media.giphy.com/media/3oKIPf3C7HqqYBVcCk/giphy.gif)

Oh BTW the code can be found on the part-III branch here
{% github DeltaManiac/VyomBot no-readme %}

# Fin
Thanks for joining along while we built our first bot :heart:.
If this journey has taught you something, feel free to give a shout out!