Can someone tell me how do you update a YouTube video title using the YouTube Data API in Python.
I found the API's documentation not clear and couldn't understand, so I hit Stack Overflow.
I'd recommend to absorb and then tailor to your needs the official sample code provided by Google: update_video.py.
Note that this script is quite simple. But that may well be misleading, because the Python libraries used there hide away many API programming details involved when invoking YouTube API endpoints.
For example you have to be familiar with the so-called OAuth 2.0 authentication/authorization flows for to be able to change metadata associated to your YouTube videos.
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I am working on a personal program to use with my Google account. I don't have a custom website or domain to use. Basically, the idea of my request was to create a personal bot that would comment "First" on a video as a joke between my friends. I looked into the YouTube API a bit, but I got differing answers on the capabilities of the v3 data API. I found the commentThread page but am also confused about its usage. If anyone could give me a basic idea on if this project is possible, I would love to hear it.
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As you said, you want to create a comment when a video uploaded. YouTube has provide the webhooks for this.
You can see the docs push_notifications. I think that is what you want. :)
I had a working script written in PHP YouTube API 2.0 that would retrieve a feed of videos based on a search query.
Over the couple months it has been getting choppy and it won't consistently retrieve the amount of video views that each video has which is messing up my website.
Does anyone have or know where I can find a working Zend PHP YouTube API 3.0 example that will retrieve videos based on a specific search query?
Anything helps!
Check https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/code_samples/php
But be aware, that the V3 is still "experimental" and therefore some things might not work as expected ;)
you can find many code samples like https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/live/code_samples/php
Getting started - https://developers.google.com/gdata/articles/php_client_lib
YouTube API Samples project has a great example. Make sure, you enabled Data API v3 in your dev console first. Also Data API v3 is highly supported and not experimental anymore.
Is there a way to manage (create, update) annotations using the YouTube API?
I have a few hundred videos on YouTube that I would like to add annotations to.
There's an existing feature request for API access to annotations tracked at https://code.google.com/p/gdata-issues/issues/detail?id=558
I'd recommend "star"ing that feature request to be notified of any updates.
Update: It is possible to update InVideo programming annotations, but only those types. See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqtuSRe3QLo
No, this is not supported.
The YouTube Data API v3 does allow you to create Invideo programming annotations and watermarks.
Unless it's just come out, there isn't a documented way of doing anything with annotations via the API yet. I'd be surprised if that kind of support doesn't appear soon, though.
Some time Annotation makes irritate users but sometimes useful to instruct redirect to other topics.
Note: YouTube Discontinued Annotations because it's not working on mobile & second reason is that 70 % user watch YouTube videos on mobile so for better serve youtube took this type of decision.
Please Watch This Video for full clarity: https://youtu.be/Awl1TTUSY78
Is it possible to get all comments for a video with the new (experimental) YouTube API v 3.0?
I only found how to get "activities" (in their terminology comment is a kind of activity) originating from a given account.
The api page says the api is not feature complete, so it is quite possible that functionality is not yet made available. Although I might've just missed it.
There's no support for retrieving comments using v3 of the API. We can't make any commitments to add in support for reading/writing comments at this time, so if your application depends on them, using v2 is required.
I'm trying to use the google-api-java-client (I suppose this is what is referred to as 2.0) for writing an android application for youtube. (gdata-java-client (1.x) does not support android, I understand). I have loooked through the youtube documentation as well as the sample provided in "youtube-jsonc-sample", which only queries based on the .
I want to query for youtube videos, as detailed at
http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/2.0/developers_guide_java.html#Searching_for_Videos
The sample snippets described there however seem to be for the older gdata API. I do not find anything related to youtube in google-api-java-client except for the youtube sample. The reference at code.google.com/apis/youtube/2.0/reference.html#Searching_for_videos too makes only a fleeting reference to "conditions that should be used to filter the result set."
Is it possible to query youtube videos using the 2.0 API (on android) ? Please point me to pointers or sample code.
Thanks;
The best sample for YouTube right now is the youtube-jsonc-sample, which shows how to search for YouTube videos using the JSON-C format. Though it is written to run on the command-line, it should work almost unmodified on Android. You mention this sample, but not why it doesn't meet your needs. Would you kindly expand on that?