If I upload a video which has CategoryId 34 (Comedy/Komödie), the API tells me the CategoryId isn't available/supported.
But I got the Categories from YouTube, saved the List in a DB with the following call:
https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/videoCategories/list?apix_params=%7B%22part%22%3A%22snippet%22%2C%22hl%22%3A%22de_DE%22%2C%22regionCode%22%3A%22DE%22%7D
and this category exists.
So with every "failed upload" my Quota raises. Unfortunately I can upload only 6 videos a day.
Any suggestions?
I checked the Categories, still up-to-date
According to the URL of the request you provided in your question, you're using de_DE as regionCode.
If so, you need to use the id 23 instead - which corresponds to Komödie.
See:
{
"kind": "youtube#videoCategory",
"etag": "\"0UM_wBUsFuT6ekiIlwaHvyqc80M/l3o_qqirQJQvOVhrSz9qa3x9Nxo\"",
"id": "23",
"snippet": {
"channelId": "UCBR8-60-B28hp2BmDPdntcQ",
"title": "Komödie",
"assignable": true
}
}
You can test the results in these demos:
Results of videoCategories.list from Germany "de_DE" in YouTube Official Documentation - "try-it" feature.
Results of videoCategories.list from Germany "de_DE" in Google API Explorer demo.
If you're still sure there's a problem with YouTube Data API, my advice is search whether your problem is already reported on Issue Tracker or report the problem there.
Related
I am aware of similar questions being asked before, but not this exact one, so please bear with me...
I want to reproduce a channel's uploaded videos list as they appear on YouTube's web page (broken into pages and sorted by publish date).
To do this, I am trying to get a list of VideoIDs from a YouTube channel that's sorted by publish date (by YouTube, not my code since there could be 1000's of videos in a playlist and YouTube limits to 50 results per query which can add up when I only want to show the user the first 25 entries).
Initially, I was using this YouTube Data API v3 Search query:
https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search?key=[APIKey]&channelId=[ChannelID]&part=snippet,id&order=date&type=video&maxResults=25
However, as some of the previous posts on stackoverflow mentioned (YouTube API v3 Search not returning all videos), this method does not guarantee to return all videos and indeed, some videos are missing from the result, making use of this query problematic.
I then saw this google video in some of the posts:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjUlmco7v2M
In the video, it is explained that you must first get the 'uploads' playlist for a channel (I'm also grabbing the channel's title and thumbnail in this query), which I do using:
https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/channels?key=[APIKEY]&part=snippet,contentDetails&id=[ChannelID]
And once I have the 'uploads' playlist ID, I query:
https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/playlistItems?key=[APIKey]&playlistId=[PlaylistID]&part=snippet,id&order=date&type=video&maxResults=25
However, the returned entries are not sorted by the publish date and according to the documentation (https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/playlistItems/list), there is no optional "order" parameter associated with this query.
With all these issues in mind, how do I get the first 25 entries of the 'uploads' playlist sorted by publish date without downloading the entire playlist so I can faithfully recreate how the YouTube website is listing videos.
After making some tests and thanks to this answer (and the next answers too) I was able to retrieve the information you need using the YouTube Data API v3 and here is how I made it:
First, in your question you're using the "search" API - since I don't know which criteria you're using in the search request, I omitted it for get direct to get the "upload" playlist id from a given channel_id.
Using the channel_id = UCT2rZIAL-zNqeK1OmLLUa6g (which belongs to "Microsoft HoloLens"), I use the "channels" API for retrieve the uploads playlist id.
Here is the URL request for retrieve the "upload" playlist id from the channel_id previously mentioned:
https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/channels?part=id%2Csnippet%2CcontentDetails&fields=items(contentDetails%2FrelatedPlaylists%2Fuploads%2Csnippet%2Flocalized)&id=UCT2rZIAL-zNqeK1OmLLUa6g&key=<YOUR_API_KEY>
Explanation:
part: set the snippet and contentDetails parts for retrieve the following:
fields: from the snippet part: (localized, description and title) and from the contentDetails part: (relatedPlayLists and uploads).
id: channel_id used in this request.
Here are the results from this request:
{
"items": [
{
"snippet": {
"localized": {
"title": "Microsoft HoloLens",
"description": "The official YouTube channel of Microsoft HoloLens. Transform your world with holograms. Visit HoloLens.com for more info."
}
},
"contentDetails": {
"relatedPlaylists": {
"uploads": "UUT2rZIAL-zNqeK1OmLLUa6g"
}
}
}
]
}
Check the value of the uploads property in the
contentDetails section. This value will be used in the next API request.
You can also check these results in the Google API Explorer demo I prepared for make this request.
Once retrieved the uploads value (as specified in previous lines), now it's time to use the "playlistItems" API for build the following URL:
https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/playlistItems?part=snippet%2CcontentDetails&playlistId=UUT2rZIAL-zNqeK1OmLLUa6g&fields=items(contentDetails(videoId%2CvideoPublishedAt)%2Csnippet%2Ftitle%2Cstatus)&maxResults=25&key=<YOUR_API_KEY>
Explanation:
part: set the snippet and contentDetails parts for retrieve the following:
fields: from the snippet part: (title and status) and from the contentDetails part: (videoId and videoPublishedAt).
playlistId: is the playlistId used in this request - (that is, the uploads value).
maxResults: set to 25.
Here are the results from this request:
{
"items": [
{
"snippet": {
"title": "Microsoft Windows Mixed Reality update | October 2018"
},
"contentDetails": {
"videoId": "00vnln25HBg",
"videoPublishedAt": "2019-01-04T17:43:47.000Z"
}
},
{
"snippet": {
"title": "How to use Spectator View for mobile devices"
},
"contentDetails": {
"videoId": "3fXlPw_FGLg",
"videoPublishedAt": "2018-10-15T17:13:42.000Z"
}
},
{
"snippet": {
"title": "Microsoft HoloLens: Visualizing the next mission to Mars."
},
"contentDetails": {
"videoId": "XVBbJ4EtAQY",
"videoPublishedAt": "2018-07-02T16:30:26.000Z"
}
},
{
"snippet": {
"title": "Microsoft HoloLens: Making mixed reality plug and play."
},
"contentDetails": {
"videoId": "QwXcSekZKWE",
"videoPublishedAt": "2018-06-25T23:25:55.000Z"
}
},
{
"snippet": {
"title": "Microsoft HoloLens | Windows Mixed Reality HMD Exerciser"
},
"contentDetails": {
"videoId": "RU3OMjq_Yic",
"videoPublishedAt": "2018-05-14T16:58:43.000Z"
}
}
]
}
I check the order of the items and they are in sorted by videoPublishedAt value (new to old).
You can also check these results in the try-it funcionality found in the YouTube Data API v3 - official documentation.1
1 For this case, I was unable to use the Google API Explorer (as I used in the first request) because I always got a "backend Error".
{
"error": {
"errors": [
{
"domain": "global",
"reason": "backendError",
"message": "Backend Error"
}
],
"code": 500,
"message": "Backend Error"
}
}
I think this is because the Google API explorer is outdated.
If anyone want to check it out, here is the demo.
I'm also using the playlist ID to get a list of videos, however mine do seem to be sorted by date from newest to oldest. Note that Youtube returns a page token that you can use to get the next 25 (or in my case 50) videos. I'm querying the API this way:
https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/playlistItems?part=snippet&pageToken= not_used_for_first_query&fields=nextPageToken,items(snippet(publishedAt,title,desc ription,thumbnails(default(url)),resourceId(videoId)))&playlistId=uploads_playlist_id&maxResults=50&order=date&key=your_api_key
This gets back in JSON response:
The video title
Publish date
Video description
Youtube URL for video
Video unique ID
Video thumbnail
You can see my working example at https://www.scriptbarrel.com
Im here to ask if it's possible to fully use youtube data api v3 with angular 2+, the documentation just have examples from javascript like authentication, playlist videos, insert a playlist and search of videos (samples)
I'm trying to upload a video, using parameter like:
(gapi.client as any).youtube.videos.insert({
"resource": {
// Video title and description
"snippet": {
"title": "Test",
"description": "Test video upload via YouTube API"
},
"status": {
"privacyStatus": "private"
}
},
"part": "snippet,status,id",
"media": {
"body": video
})
My problem is that even like this, it always return error 404 : "The request does not include the video content.", documentation says the videos needs to be video/* or application/octet-stream, and my video object is a File extended from Blob.
What could i'm possibly doing wrong?
If it's the video file, what I have to do to work?
PS: "(gapi.client as any).youtube" has this any, because youtube is not a property from the interface, its loaded.
Solved
I'm brazilian then I was searching portuguese documentation, that is quite poor, when changed to English, I found 2 archives cors_upload.js and upload_video.js JS samples in the documentation, converted then to typescript and now it works.
I am trying to retrieve all comments to a video with all replies, however, using the Test It interface (or the Java library) I have not been able to retrieve all comments - I have following two examples, when I have failed:
Example 1
The example video and comment is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCLy2DZdXhY&lc=z12ei1s5gs2mc303523qsdigcxmphhlrd04
When I retrieve the comment using
GET https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/commentThreads?part=snippet&id=z12ei1s5gs2mc303523qsdigcxmphhlrd04&fields=etag%2CeventId%2Citems%2Ckind%2CnextPageToken%2CpageInfo%2CtokenPagination%2CvisitorId&key={YOUR_API_KEY}
I receive:
And note the "totalReplyCount": 2, line.
However, when I try to obtain all replies using the parentId:
GET https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/comments?part=snippet&parentId=z12ei1s5gs2mc303523qsdigcxmphhlrd04&fields=etag%2CeventId%2Citems%2Ckind%2CnextPageToken%2CpageInfo%2CtokenPagination%2CvisitorId&key={YOUR_API_KEY}
I receive an empty response:
Remarks
I have read Youtube Data API v3: commentThread call doesn't give replies for some comment threads , however, it does not provide me the answer as I do use the comments list with parentId and I am still not getting any replies.
Even if I try the not recommended way - using the part snippet,replies, I do not get any replies:
Request:
GET https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/commentThreads?part=snippet%2Creplies&id=z12ei1s5gs2mc303523qsdigcxmphhlrd04&fields=etag%2CeventId%2Citems%2Ckind%2CnextPageToken%2CpageInfo%2CtokenPagination%2CvisitorId&key={YOUR_API_KEY}
However, if I do not specify the comment thread by its ID and specify that I want all comment threads for the video:
GET https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/commentThreads?part=snippet%2Creplies&videoId=xCLy2DZdXhY&fields=etag%2CeventId%2Citems%2Ckind%2CnextPageToken%2CpageInfo%2CtokenPagination%2CvisitorId&key={YOUR_API_KEY}
Then voila - The comment thread is now with those two replies:
Why do I receive the replies now and not when I either specify the replies by their parentId or when I specify the comment thread by its id?
Moreover, if I take the (weird) id of one of the replies and try to obtain the comment with this reply, I will receive empty response:
GET https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/comments?part=snippet&id=z12ei1s5gs2mc303523qsdigcxmphhlrd04.1443381718685326&fields=etag%2CeventId%2Citems%2Ckind%2CnextPageToken%2CpageInfo%2CtokenPagination%2CvisitorId&key={YOUR_API_KEY}
Example 2
This problem is a bit different.
I have a video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c76GeR2IWg with 7 comments (6 of them are top levels). When I try to obtain all top level comments related to this video I receive only 4 of them.
GET https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/commentThreads?part=snippet%2Creplies&videoId=-c76GeR2IWg&fields=etag%2CeventId%2Citems%2Ckind%2CnextPageToken%2CpageInfo%2CtokenPagination%2CvisitorId&key={YOUR_API_KEY}
One of the missing comments in the response is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c76GeR2IWg&lc=z120d11g2yyjyxcxw04cg1xbaqfnslfaamk0k .
When I train to obtain comment thread with this id, I do obtain the comment thread:
GET https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/commentThreads?part=snippet%2Creplies&id=z120d11g2yyjyxcxw04cg1xbaqfnslfaamk0k&fields=etag%2CeventId%2Citems%2Ckind%2CnextPageToken%2CpageInfo%2CtokenPagination%2CvisitorId&key={YOUR_API_KEY}
And also, when I try to obtain the replies for this comment (there should be 1 reply) I receive an empty response:
GET https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/comments?part=snippet&parentId=z120d11g2yyjyxcxw04cg1xbaqfnslfaamk0k&fields=etag%2CeventId%2Citems%2Ckind%2CnextPageToken%2CpageInfo%2CtokenPagination%2CvisitorId&key={YOUR_API_KEY}
Remarks
For both examples, the number of comments is less than the size of the page. For this simple example, I have skipped pagination and chose examples with only a few comments, in the real application I use the pagination but I do not get more results.
I do not really understand how is the YouTube and G+ integrated together, thus this might be the issue, however, I was always accesing these videos using only youtube, not checking the users' G+ page, thus I would say that this should not be the case.
Similar questions on SO:
How can I see all the comments with the Youtube API? This is about V2 API, thus no use for me.
Youtube Data API v3: commentThread call doesn't give replies for some comment threads This question is very similar and raises similar problems, however, it is exactly the other way around - The author does not receive all replies using the commentThread replies (which is agreeing with the documentation), however, the proposed solution is "Use the comments.listcall instead and specify the commentThread's ID for the parentId." - which is exactly what does not work for me.
YouTube Data API v3 Comment Thread Discrepency The author forgot about pagination.
YouTube Data API v3 - Comment threads request doesn't return all comments Similar question, yet without any answer.
When I do the following via HTTP request:
https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/comments?part=snippet&parentId=z12ei1s5gs2mc303523qsdigcxmphhlrd04&fields=etag%2CeventId%2Citems%2Ckind%2CnextPageToken%2CpageInfo%2CtokenPagination%2CvisitorId&key={YOUR_API_KEY}
I get the following response:
items": [
{
"kind": "youtube#comment",
"etag": "\"0KG1mRN7bm3nResDPKHQZpg5-do/aOipn7OKd9ibVua9TWdtD2vJJgI\"",
"id": "z12ei1s5gs2mc303523qsdigcxmphhlrd04.1443381718685326",
"snippet": {
"textDisplay": "JM",
"parentId": "z12ei1s5gs2mc303523qsdigcxmphhlrd04",
"authorDisplayName": "Asia Price",
"authorProfileImageUrl": "https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-XdUIqdMkCWA/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAAA/4252rscbv5M/photo.jpg?sz=50",
"authorChannelUrl": "http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtUuxM3_g2hWA7qr17d85RQ",
"authorChannelId": {
"value": "UCtUuxM3_g2hWA7qr17d85RQ"
},
"authorGoogleplusProfileUrl": "https://plus.google.com/100662746258967935686",
"canRate": false,
"viewerRating": "none",
"likeCount": 0,
"publishedAt": "2015-09-27T19:21:58.685Z",
"updatedAt": "2015-09-27T19:21:58.685Z"
}
},
{
"kind": "youtube#comment",
"etag": "\"0KG1mRN7bm3nResDPKHQZpg5-do/NtowtHGdhytzw9YY9RxUopEgoTA\"",
"id": "z12ei1s5gs2mc303523qsdigcxmphhlrd04.1443365800258222",
"snippet": {
"textDisplay": "0",
"parentId": "z12ei1s5gs2mc303523qsdigcxmphhlrd04",
"authorDisplayName": "FAY Fay",
"authorProfileImageUrl": "https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-XdUIqdMkCWA/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAAA/4252rscbv5M/photo.jpg?sz=50",
"authorChannelUrl": "http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5b4dTxK4ae_roaMWMYpglQ",
"authorChannelId": {
"value": "UC5b4dTxK4ae_roaMWMYpglQ"
},
"authorGoogleplusProfileUrl": "https://plus.google.com/100517618639903741268",
"canRate": false,
"viewerRating": "none",
"likeCount": 0,
"publishedAt": "2015-09-27T14:56:40.258Z",
"updatedAt": "2015-09-27T14:56:40.258Z"
}
}
I get the same results when I use the API explorer.
For your second example,
https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/comments?part=snippet&parentId=z120d11g2yyjyxcxw04cg1xbaqfnslfaamk0k&fields=etag%2CeventId%2Citems%2Ckind%2CnextPageToken%2CpageInfo%2CtokenPagination%2CvisitorId&key={YOUR_API_KEY}
gives me
"items": [
{
"kind": "youtube#comment",
"etag": "\"0KG1mRN7bm3nResDPKHQZpg5-do/UBoqDwv8bg8xZpbIepzI_M5gp9o\"",
"id": "z120d11g2yyjyxcxw04cg1xbaqfnslfaamk0k.1409319325542384",
"snippet": {
"textDisplay": "Ahoj děkuju :) jo máš fajn videa :) ",
"parentId": "z120d11g2yyjyxcxw04cg1xbaqfnslfaamk0k",
"authorDisplayName": "Gumičkování s Péťou",
"authorProfileImageUrl": "https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-VJce_PtJx70/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAABI/dabMtsy0haY/photo.jpg?sz=50",
"authorChannelUrl": "http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAyuADHtiVTpiAbt2VVQhtQ",
"authorChannelId": {
"value": "UCAyuADHtiVTpiAbt2VVQhtQ"
},
"authorGoogleplusProfileUrl": "https://plus.google.com/101894467260220798842",
"canRate": false,
"viewerRating": "none",
"likeCount": 0,
"publishedAt": "2014-08-29T13:35:25.542Z",
"updatedAt": "2014-08-29T13:35:25.542Z"
}
}
It might be an issue with your request or API key. Try making a new one and using that.
Given a URL or ID of a Youtube video, is it possible to get the (1) name of the "user" who had uploaded it and (2) channel that it belongs to? If so, what is the API request?
So, for example: lets' say I have a video ID: "VulCl5QfewE" corresponding to the video at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VulCl5QfewE
I then want to extract the name of the user, which is: "TheYoungTurks" and the URL of the user is:
https://www.youtube.com/user/TheYoungTurks
I also want to be able to extract the name of the channel, which is: "UC1yBKRuGpC1tSM73A0ZjYjQ" and the URL of the channel is:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1yBKRuGpC1tSM73A0ZjYjQ
Finally, (as a "side, ancillary question") I am a bit confused what is the difference between a "channel" and a "user". Can a user have multiple channels? I did read the link here: https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/2vsyit/whats_the_difference_between_user_and_channel/ but I am trying to understand the use case behind it.
Cheers
If you want to retrieve the channel informations from a videoId, you need to use the ressource videos.list with the parameters:
part: snippet
id: "VulCl5QfewE" //for example
GET https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/videos?part=snippet&id=VulCl5QfewE&key={YOUR_API_KEY}
The result show you the channelID of the user:
"items": [
{
"kind": "youtube#video",
"etag": "\"iDqJ1j7zKs4x3o3ZsFlBOwgWAHU/IcNtD4uunskZTQuIeM0YQRcc5HY\"",
"id": "VulCl5QfewE",
"snippet": {
"publishedAt": "2015-08-05T01:11:24.000Z",
"channelId": "UC1yBKRuGpC1tSM73A0ZjYjQ",
Then use this information to get the name of the channel with the ressource channel.list
part: snippet
id: UC1yBKRuGpC1tSM73A0ZjYjQ
GET https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/channels?part=snippet&id=UC1yBKRuGpC1tSM73A0ZjYjQ&key={YOUR_API_KEY}
Part of the result:
"snippet": {
"title": "The Young Turks",
"description": "The Largest Online News Show in the World. Hosted by Cenk Uygur & Ana Kasparian. LIVE weekdays 6-8pm ET. \n\nYoung Turk (n), 1. Young progressive or insurgent member of an institution, movement, or political party. 2. Young person who rebels against authority or societal expectations. (American Heritage Dictionary)\n\nThe Young Turks were the first original talk show on Sirius satellite radio and the first live, daily webcast on the internet. But that is not the revolution.\n\nWe are a rare show that combines all of the news that people care about in one place. We are not afraid to talk about politics and entertainment and sports and pop culture. But that is not the revolution either. \n\nGet The Young Turks\u200b Mobile App Today! \n\nDownload the iOS version here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/the-young-turks/id412793195? \n\nDownload the Android version here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tyt",
"publishedAt": "2005-12-21T20:46:51.000Z",
Finally, (as a "side, ancillary question") I am a bit confused what is
the difference between a "channel" and a "user". Can a user have
multiple channels? I did read the link here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/2vsyit/whats_the_difference_between_user_and_channel/
but I am trying to understand the use case behind it.
There is a link with Google+ account, check https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/youtube/3MsBApaK2Hw
When using the YouTube API v3 to query a channel's branding settings, why are they returned for queries by channel ID, but not for queries by username? The API doesn't return branding settings for channel list queries by username.
If you query for a channel's branding settings by channel ID (e.g., id=UC8-Th83bH_thdKZDJCrn88g), you are returned a complete set of branding settings:
Google API Explorer: https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/channels/list
Request
GET https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/channels?part=brandingSettings&id=UC8-Th83bH_thdKZDJCrn88g&key={YOUR_API_KEY}
Response
{
// ... snip ...
"items": [
{
"kind": "youtube#channel",
"etag": "\"...\"",
"id": "UC8-Th83bH_thdKZDJCrn88g",
"brandingSettings": {
"channel": {
"title": "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon",
"description": "Watch The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Weeknights 11:35/10:35c\n\nThe Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon features hilarious highlights from the show including: comedy sketches, music parodies, celebrity interviews, ridiculous games, and, of course, Jimmy's Thank You Notes and hashtags! You'll also find behind the scenes videos and other great web exclusives.",
// all the branding settings are here
}
}
}]
}
If, on the other hand, you send a channel list query for a username (e.g., forUsername=latenight), you get no branding settings at all. The branding settings aren't returned or populated.
Request
GET https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/channels?part=brandingSettings&forUsername=latenight&key={YOUR_API_KEY}
Response
{
// ... snip ...
"items": [
{
"kind": "youtube#channel",
"etag": "\"...\"",
"id": "UC8-Th83bH_thdKZDJCrn88g"
}]
}
I may be wrong, but I believe that, in v3 of the APIs, Channel IDs are the only way to get a full response, as the concept of a "username" doesn't really exist in the same way anymore. That is, newly created YouTube channels are linked to a G+ profile and can have a display name, but there isn't really any YouTube username anymore associated with such a channel.
Because usernames used to exist, though, and many channels are still known by them, the "forUsername" parameter is there to provide you the associated channelID and then issue the request for the branding settings with that.
Now, having said that, it's clear that the language on the API explorer page doesn't reflect that, and perhaps therein lies the problem; I'm taking my inferences from this documentation:
https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/guides/working_with_channel_ids#v3
and from this bug report:
https://code.google.com/p/gdata-issues/issues/detail?id=4821&q=forUsername&colspec=API%20ID%20Type%20Status%20Priority%20Stars%20Summary
But it's always possible, too, that I'm reading incorrectly and you're actually seeing a new bug. The only way to know for sure would be to file it (or perhaps someone on the team could comment here)?