Friends,
I want to search in the query, channels that belong to a certain category (categoryId).
In the example of the app console(https://developers.google.com/apis-explorer/),its ok.
But when I try to run the task with my key, the search returns no result.
i use this key:
https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/channels?part=snippet&categoryId=GCQmVhdXR5ICYgRmFzaGlvbg&key={YOUR_API_KEY}
Try to use the videoCategoryId parameter which filters video search results based on their category. If you specify a value for this parameter, you must also set the type parameter's value to video.
You may encounter a badRequest (400) invalidSearchFilter error if the request contains an invalid combination of search filters and/or restrictions.
Note that you must set the type parameter to video if you set a value for the eventType, videoCaption, videoCategoryId, videoDefinition, videoDimension, videoDuration, videoEmbeddable, videoLicense, videoSyndicated, or videoType parameters.
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How to retrieve videos from a playlist from a particular category? Is that even possible to do?
I did try this call :
https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/videos?part=snippet%2CcontentDetails%2Cstatistics&maxResults=50&myRating=like&chart=mostPopular&videoCategoryId=10
But no luck
You may use the Search: list method which returns a collection of search results that match the query parameters specified in the API request.
By default, a search result set identifies matching video, channel, and playlist resources, but you can also configure queries to only retrieve a specific type of resource.
Video.js provides a method to get video metadata such as player.duration(). This works for regular mp4 videos. Is it possible to get information about license and title of YouTube videos?
You may check in this link the list of parameters that this query (Videos: list) supports.
The part parameter specifies a comma-separated list of one or more video resource properties that the API response will include.
If the parameter identifies a property that contains child properties, the child properties will be included in the response. For example, in a video resource, the snippet property contains the channelId, title, description, tags, and categoryId properties. As such, if you set part=snippet, the API response will contain all of those properties.
With a channel reporting job, we can get the end_screen_element_ids for a given video. These IDs look like GUIDs.
The question is : How do we query the Youtube API to get what video/channel/... these end_screen_element_ids points to ?
Thanks!
You may use the reportTypes.list method. This returns a list of report types that the channel or content owner can retrieve. Each item in the list contains an id property, which identifies the report's ID, and you need this value to schedule a reporting job.
I'm trying to filter my search results by the duration (short) parameter. However, it still returns videos as long as one hour. Also, the orderby parameter doesn't seem to work. Here's the code (all other filters work):
var request = gapi.client.youtube.search.list({
part: 'snippet',
q: 'kittens',
maxResults: 5,
duration: 'short',
orderby: 'published',
});
Does it have something to do with the fact that these are "custom search parameters"? If so, how do I use them?
The search API reference says that you need to specify the "type" as video.
If you specify a value for this parameter, you must also set the type
parameter's value to video.
(From: https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/search/list)
Try adding "type" parameter to your request.
API calls https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/videoCategories?part=snippet®ionCode=US&key=API_KEY can retrieve a list of available videoCategory for certain country.
For example, videoCategory id 43:
However, when i retrieve video by this videoCategory id 43, for example https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/videos?part=snippet%2C+contentDetails&chart=mostPopular®ionCode=MY&videoCategoryId=43&key=API_KEY, i get error instead:
At the first glance, i thought it was due to assignable is false, but it's not the case, because some videoCategoryId which was assignable=false can retrieve videos too.
videoCategoryId id 30, assignable is false:
videoCategoryId 30 have no problem to get videos:
Search API is ok(some categories return only ~2 videos), for example this API calls, https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search?part=id%2Csnippet&maxResults=20&order=relevance&videoCategoryId=43&type=video&key=API_KEY:
I'm not sure it's bug or not. Because it's possible videoCategory id 43 is not under mostPopular chart and lead to this error. But how is it possible to detect and filter it out on videoCategories resource API? there's no flag to indicate this category cannot work with video resource API.
I ran into this as well, and it seems that the bug is that "Movies" and "Trailers" should be set as assignable. Per this, https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/videoCategories, if a category is assignable it has videos associated with it. So it makes sense that retrieving videos for non-assignable categories would fail, but it does not make sense that those two non-assignable categories do, in fact, have associated videos (although "Trailers" only returns one result, which is strange).
I suppose a temporary workaround is to just include assignable categories, and manually include movies and trailers.