Convert a searched text to a youtube search link

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I need to convert the searched text to a youtube search link, for example:

  • search text: the show must go on
  • result: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=the+show+must+go+on

And yes, I could "just" write a parser that would replace spaces with the plus sign, but spaces aren't the only thing that are getting replaced, for example:

  • search text: !@#$%^&*()
  • result: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=!%40%23%24%25%5E%26*().

And so manually writing converter for every each special sign would be a really tedious and buggy mess.
And from what I've seen Youtube API doesn't have anything like that.

So, is there a API, dictionary or something else available that could do that for me?

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1 Answers

The thing you are looking for is URL Encoding, right?

string searchText ="the show must go on";
string searchUrlBase = "https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=";
string searchUrl = searchUrlBase + System.Net.WebUtility.UrlEncode(searchText);
Console.WriteLine(searchUrl);

This will give you Hello+World and !@#$%^&*() will give you !%40%23%24%25%5E%26*(). Example added here

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