There are certain youtube playlist that cannot be accessed via the api, for example RDCLAK5uy_kmPRjHDECIcuVwnKsx2Ng7fyNgFKWNJFs
How are these playlist different from the regular playlist PLFgquLnL59alW3xmYiWRaoz0oM3H17Lth which are accessible via the api?
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I've been trying to get tags for youtube videos using playlists/playlistItems api.
I've seen other questions about this and saw there's a possibility to do it with more than one call (make a call to get the videos, which has the tags).
For example: How to retrieve a YouTube video's tags with YouTube v3 API?, YouTube API - get tags for all videos with playlist query
BUT I see in their api documentation that the snippet in playlists api is supposed to include tags:
But it doesn't!
The url I'm using: https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/playlists?part=snippet&channelIdz=&key=
We're working on an integration with youtube channels (using Youtube Data Api v3). We need to access the videos (private also) on our user's channels.
The flow is the following:
User authorizes his/her youtube account on our site using OAuth.
We show user the list of videos on user's youtube channel.
User selects some of them (they can be private) and sends us for processing.
We need to somehow access the actual video files which the user asks us to process.
The issue is that youtube does not give any streaming URLs or download links.
Looks like, the API provides only iframe embedded code, which works ONLY for the browser, where the user is actually logged into youtube.
How can we access(can we?!) the private video, if we have the OAuth access-token of the video owner?
The YouTube Data API lets you incorporate functions normally executed on the YouTube website into your own website or application. The lists below identify the different types of resources that you can retrieve using the API. The API also supports methods to insert, update, or delete many of these resources. This in a sense means that you can see most of what you can see on the YouTube website including uploading new videos.
Downloading Youtube videos is against their Terms of Service, so the API does not support that.
Page linked above refers to Youtube ToS that states:
You shall not download any Content unless you see a “download” or similar link displayed by YouTube on the Service for that Content.
YouTube partners may have access to this feature in their API (no idea i have never seen the api), if you have access to this i suggest you contact your manager directly they should be able to instruct you on how to access it assuming the feature exists.
Using the instructions here, I was able to get a list of all videos on a channel on except videos which are unlisted:
Youtube Api to fetch all videos on a Channel
The YouTube API documentation is not clear on whether I was able to retrieve unlisted channel using the playlistItems request, and this post seems to indicate that the behavior has changed multiple times:
Youtube API returning unlisted videos
Is there any solution on being able to retrieve a full list unlisted videos from the API from the channel? Also, for this specific channel, this API account is connected to the YouTube brand account as a Manager, and I'm not sure whether that changes the behavior of the API.
Given one YouTube playlist ID, I would like to save or subscribe to that playlist and to be added to my library via API.
playlist added from a channel to my library
Already checked the API documentation, wondering if I'm missing something.
Thanks
We are proposing to use the YouTube API for a community video portal. When using the Upload API and the Player API ... I have the following queries ...
Can I store all the videos in my own Server, instead of storing on YouTube?
Will the uploaded videos on my site also appear on youtube.com automatically? Can I restrict the display of our videos on the YouTube site, as these come through a Pay wall?
Are there any restrictions to the number of videos being uploaded using the API?
Rregards