I want to monitor my YouTube Live stream without using Search:List. How do I use YouTube API with Videos:List and Channel-ID instead of Video-ID? Use of chart filter in conjunction with videoCategoryId parameter seems a potential solution but I fail to construct the URL correctly. I have tried the following urls. The problem with URL #1 is that I have to specify video ID which changes every time the stream restarts.
Successful URLs #1
https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/videos?part=snippet&id=[Video ID]&key=[API KEY]
https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/videos?part=liveStreamingDetails&id=[Video ID]&key=[API KEY]
This URL don't work #2
https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/videos?part=snippet&chart=videoCategoryId=[Channel ID]&key=[API KEY]
chart=videoCategoryId=[Channel ID] is incorrect, you should instead use chart=mostPopular&videoCategoryId=VIDEO_CATEGORY_ID VIDEO_CATEGORY_ID being one listed by VideoCategories: list as documented chart and videoCategoryId. You are trying frantically to provide your channel id to a parameter (videoCategoryId) not accepting one.
Please don't make duplicated questions and update instead your old question, as I commented it and it may solve the problem you raised here.
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I'm trying to get channels info with ChannelsList. This endpoint has a parameter the name is: forUsername but it does not work for this page: https://www.youtube.com/c/FolkartTr
This is my query and it returns empty data:
Somehow, I got this channelID in the page source and its: "channelId":"[UCnS--2e1yzQCm5r4ClrMJBg]".
When I try to query with this ID it's okay and returns with correct data.
and this is its payload: http://jsonblob.com/941253671862419456
How will I be able to reach this channel info using a username? I got a few links with usernames and I want to get their info with their username. I don't have any chance to get their channelID's for all.
Thanks for your help.
If I understood correctly, your problem is that you can't do anything from such a username with the Channels: list of the YouTube Data API v3. If you're just looking for the channel id linked to this username then because as YouTube Data API v3 doesn't work for this, I would recommend you to use my open-source YouTube operational API, indeed by requesting https://yt.lemnoslife.com/channels?part=snippet&forUsername=FolkartTr you'll receive a JSON with id equals to the channel id linked to the provided forUsername value.
If you have any question don't hesitate to comment or come to the Discord support.
Notice that the channel title and the channel customUrl might be different.
In your example - http://jsonblob.com/941253671862419456 -, the channel title is Folkart, but its customUrl - which is the value you get when view on YouTube - is: folkarttr.
Note the difference in both case-sensitive and additional letters.
For these reasons, you should not based your channel search by name, but, rather, by its channel_id.
If you really need to search by userName, the answer from Benjamin Loison can solve your requirement.
See if you can find a ticket on Issue Tracker or post your issue there too. Then, you might get some official answer.
For some reason I can't get any information for some channels via API. For example this channel: http://youtube.com/vithorvascovv and API request
GET https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/channels?part=id&forUsername=vithorvascovv&key={YOUR_API_KEY}
gives me empty response. Why? You can try here with part=id and forUsername=vithorvascovv.
Even if I use search method like this:
GET https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search?part=id&q=vithorvascovv&type=channel&key={YOUR_API_KEY}
I have empty response but in same time channel can be found by using regular search on Youtube.
One more channel name with the same problem: Nsamurail
It looks like the user "vithorvascovv" merged with another channel. I'm not exactly sure why the username lookup no longer works, but I see that http://youtube.com/vithorvascovv redirects to https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsLprVocGZ9mUl6SGBZ91Ng. Using part=id and id=UCsLprVocGZ9mUl6SGBZ91Ng, I was able to return the proper results from the API.
For your second question, it looks like user "Nsamurail" changed their username to "xRidan" (http://www.youtube.com/Nsamurail redirects to https://www.youtube.com/user/xRidan). Using part=id and forUsername=xRidan, I was able to return the channel information from the API.
Question : How Can Fetch Playlists From Any Youtube Channel Name/User By Using YOUTUBE DATA API ?
Answer : When You Try To Do This We Always Face A Problem to apply "FILTER" in order to fetch Playlists , here you can use two different filters (forUsername,Id) in two different Youtube channel urls such as :
1. https://www.youtube.com/user/flashbuilding/playlists
Here channel name is : flashbuilding
Required Filter For API is: forUsername
Code Structure :
forUsername:flashbuilding
2. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJUmE61LxhbhudzUugHL2wQ/playlists
Here Chanel Name is not clear in this case:-
Required filter for API is : Id
Code Structure :
Id:UCJUmE61LxhbhudzUugHL2wQ
Note : use Id in API Filter section instead of API part Section
Since Google has deprecated the YouTube v2 API, I cannot find a way to get all the comments from a video.
Is it possible to use a single, non-deprecated API (Google+, YT v3) to do that?
I am not concerned about maintaining threading.
Believe me it works
https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/commentThreads?key=******************&textFormat=plainText&part=snippet&videoId=kffacxfA7G4&maxResults=50
Key will be provided by the google developer console and 50 denotes 50 comments in form of a json, video id is the id of the video. For any type of queries comment below.
You can get only 100 at most at a time with the comments API. But you get a nextPageToken from the comment api response. Pass &pageToken={nextPageToken} to next api call, until the nextPageToken is undefined. Then you can get all comments if you like.
https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/commentThreads?key={your_api_key}&textFormat=plainText&part=snippet&videoId={video_id}&maxResults=100&pageToken={nextPageToken}
Apparently it is now possible to fetch comment threads.
(old answer)
Currently that's impossible with a first-party tool.
Source:
While v3 offers the majority of v2 functionality, there are currently
a couple of tasks that can only be done with the older API.
Specifically, applications that manage captions or that work with
video comments still need to use the v2 API until modern equivalents
are available. Our goal is to provide similar functionality well
before the April 2015 shut-off date—please subscribe to this blog, the
YouTube Data API v3 revision history page, or follow +YouTubeDev on
Google+ to keep up-to-date. -
http://apiblog.youtube.com/2014/03/committing-to-youtube-data-api-v3.html
TubeKit (YouTube crawling toolkit) might be of help to some.
You can fetch all the comments using https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/commentThreads
The Youtube API v3.0 allows you the following parameters.
textFormat - This parameter indicates whether the API should return comments formatted as HTML or as plain text. The default value is html.
videoId - The Youtube Video ID you want to fetch comments for ( if you dont know your Youtube Video ID, you can get one from Youtube Video ID Finder )
maxResults - The maxResults parameter specifies the maximum number of items that should be returned in the result set.
pageToken - The pageToken parameter identifies a specific page in the result set that should be returned. In an API response, the nextPageToken property identifies the next page of the result that can be retrieved.
$.ajax({
dataType: "jsonp",
type: 'GET',
url: "https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/commentThreads?key=PUT-YOUR-KEYXXXXXXX&textFormat=plainText&part=snippet&videoId=PUT-YOUR-VIDEO-ID",
success: function(result){
data = result;
$('.data').text(data);
console.log(data);
}});
To find PUT-YOUR-KEY(API key) ---> https://console.developers.google.com/apis/credentials then click on blue color button select API key option you can get
I'm trying to use the YouTube API to return videos that were recently published, but the filter I'm using doesn't seem to work as expected.
This API call only returns two videos whereas there should be tons more that were published after March 1st:
https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos?q=&fields=entry[xs:dateTime(published)%20%3E%20xs:dateTime('2013-03-01T12:00:00.000Z')]
However, if I add a query string, then many more results are returned. For example:
https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos?q=surfing&fields=entry[xs:dateTime(published)%20%3E%20xs:dateTime('2013-03-01T12:00:00.000Z')]
Anyone know why? Is there another approach I should be using to just get me the latest videos published regardless of query string?
I understand your confusion, but that's not what the fields= parameter is used for. The documentation should hopefully clear things up, but to summarize, using fields= in that manner is equivalent to making a request without the fields= parameter and then filtering the results of that request so that it only includes the entries that match your filter.
So if your request without fields= would normally return 25 specific videos, adding fields= to it will give you a response that includes somewhere between 0 and 25 videos—all the non-matching videos are filtered out.
You can request a feed of recently published videos without any other filters using http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos?v=2&orderby=published
I am authenticating with google to try and get youtube analytics my problem is that i don't know how to filled you the parameters when quering youtube
here i am making a new service: and then try to query it
I am not sure what to put in the "ids" parameter or where to find it?
What do I put there?
_analyticService = new YoutubeAnalyticsService(_authenticator = CreateAuthenticator());
...
_analyticService.Reports.Query("ids", "2013-01-01", "2013-02-02", "views").Fetch();
The ids parameter is the an expression with the id of your channel. If you go to http://www.youtube.com/analytics and click on the title with your own channel name, you get a link like http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYHMS8hN8s49F93iJuEgG6w The last part is the id of your channel. You have to use this as the ids parameter in an expression like "channel==UCYHMS8hN8s49F93iJuEgG6w". This is to query in the context of your own channel. This is needed as you might have access to several channels.
I can query views for one of my videos by: https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/analytics/v1/reports?ids=channel%3D%3DUCYHMS8hN8s49F93iJuEgG6w&start-date=2013-01-01&end-date=2013-02-02&metrics=views&dimensions=day&filters=video%3D%3D_iwmv6644dA&sort=day&key={YOUR_API_KEY}
Try to use the API explorer at the bottom of this page, there are some text explaining the different parameters there as well. https://developers.google.com/youtube/analytics/v1/
Hope it goes well!