I manage a youtube account but it seem I can not use the youtube analytics api to pull reports. I can go to the youtube analytics sections of the account and pull the reports but I want to do this programmatically using the api. Is there some other step that need to be done to get access to the account I'm managing.
Oharr, I'm facing the same issue and wrote my own question.
There's an alternative automated way to get your reports though. If you use BigQuery, you're able to use the 'Transfers' section. That interface actually creates the Jobs and will give you reports periodically. It also allows you to 'backfill' data from the past up to 180 days.
Please refer to YouTube Channel Transfers.
You can also get reports for Content Owners. But the Content Owner transfers wont' work for me since I get 403 responses. Need to figure that out myself...
Yes in order to pull the data via code you need to get an API key/ service key or Oauth credentials please refer this link for more details.
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I have the access token of a youtube Brand Account owner. With this token I would like to add other people (as admin) to this account over API.
This operation is possible manually (info : https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/4628007?hl=en), but I didn't see anything about user management on youtube-data api.
is this operation is impossible over API or am I looking at the wrong google API documentation ?
It doesn't look like the YouTube v3 Data API supports this operation :(. The only other APIs are analytics and reporting.
For a complete list of what the Data API can do check out this link:
https://developers.google.com/apis-explorer/#s/youtube/v3/
It's not possible with the current YouTube API. If this operation is manually possible over webpages, you can simply write a program (e.g. nodejs application) to execute the steps needed, automatically.
I was using Youtube Data APIto get youtube video but after getting mail from youtube which says api is disable due to inactive.
Youtube Data api not working since it was disabled by youtube because of inactive for 90 Days. I am not able to call(It is enable in API Console) it even with delete and add new delete back. Please help.
Error shows when i am calling from Web Browsers with api Key i also tried to generate new API key also delete and regenerate new api key but still no luck.
"Access Not Configured. YouTube Data API has not been used in project
264969722993 before or it is disabled. Enable it by visiting
https://console.developers.google.com/apis/api/youtube.googleapis.com/overview?project=264969722993
then retry. If you enabled this API recently, wait a few minutes for
the action to propagate to our systems and retry."
There are things you can do to try and solve this issue. This first option is to apply for an API exception by filling out this out this form. I've filled out this form and am waiting for a response.
The second option is to create a new project and use that project to generate an API key. Because Google has only disabled access to the Youtube Data API for your current project, the new project's API key should work just fine. I've tried this and can confirm this works. This is probably the more hassle-free option if you have extra projects to spare as Google only allows 10 projects at any point in time.
I'm in the same position, disabled for no calls in 90 days. You can request an exemption but after about 25 back and forth emails it's clear that it is just a smokescreen. After explaining what it's used for they then wanted screenshots, then videos of you using the application, how we use the videos we pull up, and then a shot of the room where it was being used. They even asked who made the video we were looking at (we have no idea!). They want your whole business model and what you do. It was just never ending questions and more stuff to send them. After about 2 1/2 months of slow back and forth, I get a message saying I am out of compliance.
Our application uses YouTube to pull up videos for manufacturers product for research and training in a small training/conference room for internal use only. That's all!
Nothing was out of compliance.
This is the email we received:
Hello ,
We have reviewed your quota extension request for project number
#### and have revoked the allocated quota for your API Client(s) as it is out of compliance on the following YouTube API Services -
Developer Policy:
Policy F. 1 (User Experience - YouTube Look and Feel) Please do not
reply to this email, you may complete and submit this form to re-apply
once the above concern has been addressed.
Thanks, YouTube API Services team
The form link in the email is just a link to start the whole process over again.
According to YouTube policy
If your API Client's quota is reduced or eliminated, you may reapply for quota or a quota extension, and YouTube will review that application based on YouTube’s determination of your expected use of the YouTube API Services.
https://developers.google.com/youtube/terms/developer-policies
I suggest reapplying.
To add to avatarhzh's answer:
If you have already used up your initial cap of max. 12 projects and your channel is a brand account and you do not want to go through the process of applying for more quota/getting back your previous quota, you can also create new projects on a different google account and then add that account to your channel as a manager. It is then possible to access your channel through this new account via the youtube data API.
If your channel is not a brand account yet, you can move your channel to a brand account. This allows you to add different google accounts as managers/co-owners of the channel. Warning: certain things (e.g. comments) cannot be transferred when moving to a brand account.
The goal of my YouTube API call is, given a channelId, to return whether that channel is currently live streaming. This is the call I'm making currently:
https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search?part=snippet&channelId={CHANNEL_ID}&eventType=live&type=video&key={YOUR_API_KEY}
While this call is functional, there is a significant delay between the channel starting a live stream and this call returning the stream.
Is there a better call to use in the YouTube v3 API that doesn't require oAuth? The functionality of my app is read-only.
Thanks!
Probably late but still someone else would use it, i found the answer on google api docs:
https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/live/docs/liveBroadcasts/list
(Scroll to bottom, you can use their onsite api to make calls on the fly)
The call you have to make is:
GET https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/liveBroadcasts?part=id%2Csnippet%2Cstatus&mine=true&broadcastStatus=active&key={YOUR_API_KEY}
(atm, they have an issue wth the status field). You can remove the filter and check the returned results for
{ "status": { "lifeCycleStatus": "live"}}
And as per google docs:
Before you start
You need a Google Account to access the Google Developers Console, request an >API key, and register your application.
Register your application with Google so that it can submit API requests.
After registering your application, select the YouTube Data API as one of the >services that your application uses:
Go to the Developers Console and select the project that you just registered.
Open the API Library in the Google Developers Console. If prompted, select a >project or create a new one. In the list of APIs, make sure the status is ON for >the YouTube Data API v3 and, if you are a YouTube Content Partner, the YouTube >Content ID API.
Calling the Data API
The API request must be authorized by the Google Account that owns the >broadcasting YouTube channel.
You can check this link for generating an access(OAuth 2.0) token: https://developers.google.com/identity/protocols/OAuth2?hl=en
I hope this helps.
I was digging for a "cheaper" way to find if a channel is live to save some API quota. I attempted to use Konstantin's workaround by looking at the {channel/channel_id}/live but this appears to not work anymore.
The channel no longer redirects when a person is live. Instead it runs on that page.
If they have a username URL then /c/ works: https://www.youtube.com/c/USER_NAME/live
If they have don't have a username and use the default like UC4R8DWoMoI7CAwX8_LjQHig, then you need to use https://www.youtube.com/channel/USER_NAME/live
The /search call is rather expensive. If you are only allotted the initial 10k quota points, you'd run out of points after only 100 queries. That may not be a bother for some use cases, but it is nevertheless limited.
Instead, you can use Playwright and do the following:
page.goto("https://YouTube.com/channel/{channel id}/live")
Then check for a redirection which will happen when the channel is live:
const redirect = page.url()
If redirect contains a link to a YouTube video, then you know the channel is live. Otherwise it is not live and will yield a link similar to the one that's passed in to the goto() function.
I'm trying to set the in video promotion on a channel via the v3 data API as a CMS user.
If I do this as the channel owner user, then it works fine with the API and testing on the API docs.
However, I am trying to do this via a CMS user. Neither through the site https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/channels/update nor Python code am I able to do this - I get a 403 back every time.
1) Is what I'm trying to do actually possible? i.e. can a CMS user modify a linked channel, or for updates do I have to be logged in as the channel owner on the API?
2) If 'yes' to point 1, what am I missing to make this work? I have the same working 'body' and 'part' from when I log in as the channel owner, but that just gives me 403's when trying to run it as the CMS user.
I see references to a 'onBehalfOfContentOwner' - is this the secret sauce to make this actually work? And if it is, what should go here? I've tried both the user name and YouTube user id's here for both the CMS user and the channel user, and it seems to make no difference - I still get a 403 every time.
In general, using an OAuth 2 token associated with a CMS user and setting the onBehalfOfContentOwner parameter is the way to make YouTube Data API v3 calls via delegation. What you're attempting does work for many Data API v3 methods, but updating InVideo options is not currently supported via delegation. (The documentation does not make this clear.)
Unfortunately, I don't have any information to share at this time as to whether delegation support will be added to InVideo options at some point in the future.
I am a Youtube Partner and I have monetized videos on Youtube. Already receive a small monthly amount through some channels that have associated with my Google Adsense account.
Now, I would like to generate a report gathering the monetary values and views received from each channel.
I did the following question on Google Code, because I thought there was some problem in the API, but it happened that I was using the API incorrectly. See the link below.
http://code.google.com/p/gdata-issues/issues/detail?id=4826#makechanges
Now, I still could not make it work because I do not know where to find the requested data in the response I got from the link above.
Where do I find this CMS_ID? I have more than one channel, so I need to have each accepted as a Youtube Content Manager to use the API and retrieve the gains?
Someone here on Stack Overflow already managed to use the Youtube Analytics API using the metric "earnings"?
My code is in Python based on the example from Google here:
https://developers.google.com/youtube/analytics/v1/code_samples/python
I'm using the following scopes:
YOUTUBE_SCOPES = ["https://www.googleapis.com/auth/youtube.readonly",
"https://www.googleapis.com/auth/yt-analytics.readonly",
"https://www.googleapis.com/auth/youtubepartner",
"https://www.googleapis.com/auth/yt-analytics-monetary.readonly"]
As of right now, it's only possible to retrieve monetary information in YouTube Analytics API reports when those reports are run via the context of a content owner, as described in the documentation.
It is possible to have a monetized channel that is opted in for Google AdSense ads without having that channel managed by a content owner, in which case you would not be able to get those metrics via the YouTube Analytics API.
Let's use the issue you previously opened to track the request to open up this type of report to non-content owners as well, as that's a more appropriate place for feature requests than Stack Overflow.