Youtube Data API is returning invalid data - youtube-api

Question

I'm not really sure how to ask this, but I have a php script that pulls data from the youtube-v3-api for my youtube channel, mainly a list of videos that I have published. It's been working great up until earlier today when I went to run it again because I added a new video. Here's the output for the first object in the items array
items:[
{
kind:"youtube#searchResult",
etag:"" XpPGQXPnxQJhLgs6enD_n8JR4Qk/tluoWYe5GE9lVFAkcMtcec2Ycug"",
id:{
kind:"youtube#channel",
channelId:"UCD8d3FGC907iS1qiMF0ccxA"
},
snippet:{
publishedAt:"2006-04-30T19:39:08.000Z",
channelId:"UCD8d3FGC907iS1qiMF0ccxA",
title:"Travis Ballard",
description:"",
thumbnails:{
default:{
url:"https://yt3.ggpht.com/-L5MV7tUNjlk/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAAA/dXNuqxAYprw/s88-c-k-no-mo-rj-c0xffffff/photo.jpg"
},
medium:{
url:"https://yt3.ggpht.com/-L5MV7tUNjlk/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAAA/dXNuqxAYprw/s240-c-k-no-mo-rj-c0xffffff/photo.jpg"
},
high:{
url:"https://yt3.ggpht.com/-L5MV7tUNjlk/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAAA/dXNuqxAYprw/s800-c-k-no-mo-rj-c0xffffff/photo.jpg"
}
},
channelTitle:"Travis Ballard",
liveBroadcastContent:"none"
}
}
]
This does not represent a video on my channel? also, it's not in order at all. It should be ordered by date as i'm asking it to in my php script:
<?php
const APIKEY = 'MyAPIKeyHere';
const CHANNELID = 'UCD8d3FGC907iS1qiMF0ccxA';
const VIDEO_COUNT = 50;
class FetchYoutubeVideos {
private $api_key = null;
private $channel_id = null;
private $count = null;
public function __construct($api_key, $channel_id, $count = 10) {
$this->api_key = $api_key;
$this->channel_id = $channel_id;
$this->count = $count;
$this->writeToFile(
'videos.json',
$this->fetch($this->getApiUrl())
);
printf( 'fetched videos from: %s', $this->getApiUrl());
}
public function getApiUrl($options = array()) {
$endpoint = 'https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search';
$default_options = array(
'key' => $this->api_key,
'channelId' => $this->channel_id,
'part' => 'snippet,id',
'order' => 'date',
'maxResults' => $this->count
);
$options = array_merge($options, $default_options);
return sprintf('%s/?%s', $endpoint, http_build_query($options));
}
public function fetch($url) {
$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$result = curl_exec($ch);
return $result;
}
public function writeToFile($filename, $data) {;
$fh = fopen($filename, 'w+');
fwrite($fh, $data, strlen($data));
fclose($fh);
}
}
$fetchVideos = new FetchYoutubeVideos(APIKEY, CHANNELID, VIDEO_COUNT);
The newest video should be 'Tragic - Rock-a-Hoola Revisited' and then 'Rocket Timelapse - Anycubic i3 Mega'. You can reference my yt channel to see what it should be returning: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCD8d3FGC907iS1qiMF0ccxA?view_as=subscriber
Any insights into why it changed? Or why it's not returning the data that it should be?

Answer 1

You experienced an API issue which is known for a few days now. Follow-up https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/128673552, or the answers already given on this site (e.g. https://stackoverflow.com/a/55246970/8327971).
Either of the two links we'll lead you to find a workaround for the issue at hand.
Note that, until now, Google has refrained itself from providing an ETA for when it'll enable back the API's features it disabled. I suppose that it may well take a few more days (perhaps weeks?) until we'll see those disabled features working again.