I have quite a bit of videos uploaded on youtube and would like to analyse the CTR and impression development of each video. Currently youtube analytics only allows me to manually download the data for each separate video. Is there a way of maybe automating the process and scrape the data off all videos at once?
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I own a YouTube channel with 500+ videos. I create one to two videos a week. I am building my own website where I want to host these videos as well.
To quickly move all my older videos I want to create a script where for a given YouTube video URL the video is downloaded in MP4 format. I can then tie this into a larger workflow which leverages Youtube and Akamai's APIs to move videos from Youtube to Akamai automatically.
I know how to use YouTube's APIs to get all my video URLs. I do not want to embed a Youtube video and need to (for business reasons) use a service like Akamai.
I want a solution I can automate so not looking for apps that do this.
Is there any way to get direct video download link from YouTube and which work on another devices for long time? I tried a lot of third parties softwares to generate the direct download links but after a short time these links dead. May be YouTube changes some parameters in the direct download url. I am trying this for my own channel, to offer direct download for my videos from YouTube at my website, so I need direct download links for each video.
One of the benefits of YouTube Red is the ability to download videos for up to 30 days on supported devices. This is the only official way I am aware of to download videos offline. According to the YouTube Developer Policy, you are not allowed to make content available for offline playback, so I would be cautious of these third party services.
One solution would be to upload the video to YouTube for normal online playback, and upload a copy of the video file somewhere else (ex. Google Drive or on your website) so that users can download from this alternate location.
I want to write an API using which I can download selected videos to n number of devices.
Is there any API from youtube as such?
Downloading YouTube videos using the API is against their Terms of Service.
However, based from this comment, try the youtube-dl that is written in Python which you may use for downloading a YouTube video given its URL.
Here's another reference:
Youtube API for video download
Downloading videos from YouTube is against the YouTube EULA.
You can use third part apps clive, it is a command line tool. Hope it helps you.
You can also use ffmpeg in addition to convert different format from flv or mp4 that you download from youtube.
I want to transfer some videos from youtube(I've videos ids) to my own youtube account.
How to do it without downloading video to my server and uploading to my account?(This is not good solution for me because the traffic on my hosting is limited and it's so long process(download+upload))
You can just create a playlist in your channel and add those videos into your playlist. They will still be hosted in their original channel's upload playlist as well though.
I am planning on integrating YouTube into my web app where users will be able to upload videos to YouTube. I will need to programmatically access the URLs for all uploaded videos, the user IDs of the users who uploaded the videos, and record them in my database.
How can I do this using YouTube Direct Lite?
Is it possible to...
have YouTube Direct Lite callback my app when the download has been completed?
save parameters along with the uploaded video?
You have two options. You can retrieve a feed of videos that have been submitted to your playlist using the Data API, just like YouTube Direct Lite does behind the scenes. The relevant API call is something like
https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos?v=2&orderby=published&category=%7Bhttp%3A%2F%2Fgdata.youtube.com%2Fschemas%2F2007%2Fkeywords.cat%7DytdlPLAYLISTID
where PLAYLISTID is the id of the playlist you're using to solicit videos (omit the PL prefix).
You can periodically make this query from your own app to get a feed of videos that are being submitted.
Alternatively, you can use YouTube Direct instead of YouTube Direct Lite. YouTube Direct is a full Java App Engine web application, and has its own datastore that gets updated whenever a submission happens. You can use that data however you'd like. It's a lot more work to get up and running with YouTube Direct, though.