I'm interested in getting topics as part of the results when searching with:
https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search?
For instance, when searching Dance Music on the YouTube website, it shows some videos and on the side there's a Electronic Dance Music topic showing up.
How can I get that using the API?
I'll also be fine search for topics in a different API call.
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 such as the topicId parameter.
The topicId parameter indicates that the API response should only contain resources associated with the specified topic. The value identifies a Freebase topic ID.
Important: Due to the deprecation of Freebase and the Freebase API, the topicId parameter started working differently as of February 27, 2017. At that time, YouTube started supporting a small set of curated topic IDs, and you can only use that smaller set of IDs as values for this parameter.
You may use the API Explorer to try the sample request.
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I am trying to collect a large list of YouTube's most watched videos for a data science application. I tried to use the YouTube Data API with the following query:
https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search&order=viewCount&type=video®ionCode=US&key=API_KEY,
but it does not seem to give me the same video ideas as in this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-viewed_YouTube_videos
Could someone tell me how I should do it?
Using the Search.list API endpoint is one way to search for the most viewed videos pertaining to a given region.
There's another endpoint -- Videos.list -- that, when queried with chart set to mostPopular, gives back:
chart (string)
The chart parameter identifies the chart that you want to retrieve.
Acceptable values are:
mostPopular – Return the most popular videos for the specified content region and video category.
As per the specification of videoCategoryId:
By default, charts are not restricted to a particular category.
Therefore, you may safely invoke Videos.list with chart=mostPopular and regionCode=US, without passing to it any videoCategoryId.
These two are the only API means that accomplish the task described by your post.
So I'm using Home Assistant to launch an automation that retrieves the newest videoId that a channel has uploaded, so I can use my google home to play it(on a Roku TV), works fine, I am working on creating an automation that also does a GET request but for now, I am using the home assistant rest sensor that updates by performing a GET after a set number of seconds, for some reason though there are only 3 sensors polled every minute or so it seems they use around 100-500 quota(hitting my quota of 10,000 after only a few hours or less), I'm not sure if this is a home assistant problem or if I am not using the api correctly(I only need the videoId), ill link my url below:
https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search?key=API_KEY&part=id&order=date&maxResults=1
Expected 1-3 quota usage per GET, getting 100+ quota usage per GET.
Querying the Search Endpoint is more expensive than querying the PlaylistItems endpoint for the given user's uploads playlist. Depending on usage patterns, the default quotas may put rather tight limits on the number of calls an user is allowed to make on various endpoints of the API.
Adapting my answer to a different question, I suggest you to do the following instead: call PlaylistItems endpoint, passing to it as playlistId parameter the given channel's uploads playlist ID.
A given channel's uploads playlist ID is obtained upon querying the channel's own endpoint. The needed ID is to be found at .items.contentDetails.relatedPlaylists.uploads. Usually, an channel ID and its corresponding uploads playlist ID are related by s/^UC([0-9a-zA-Z_-]{22})$/UU\1/.
Note that you should query the Channels endpoint only once, then use the returned uploads playlist ID as many times as you need.
Also note that you may experiment using the fields parameter applied to your queries, as to get from the API partial resources only. However, I'm predicting that (I may well be wrong, since did not tested it) the cost of 3 points for querying PlaylistItems for its contentDetails object cannot be improved.
Here is a prototype URL:
https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/playlistItems?key=APP_KEY&part=contentDetails&fields=items/contentDetails/videoId&maxResults=1&playlistId=PLAYLIST_ID
I'm trying to retrieve all videos for a channel, and some are not being returned by the api. I cannot find anything in the spec that indicates why some would not be in the result set.
The call I'm making is:
https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search?type=video&key=__key_here__&channelId=UCxS2lX7728bTnmK1t21bYlA&part=id,snippet&maxResults=50&order=title
[To test this you'll need your own api key]
The first page of results is missing at least one video. The one from 8-15-2018, titled I LEARNED HOW TO DO A NEW TRICK!, which is located here, is not in the result set, even though it falls within the date range, and the first 50 results.
Does anyone know if this is a known issue?
I have verified that if I add the q parameter, with the video id, it will retrieve it.
You may refer with this link.
The API call that you should make if you want to get the videos in a channel is a youtube.playlistItems.list() with the playlistId of the "uploads" playlist for the channel. (This usually stars with UU..., but that's an implementation detail that might change in the future.
Here's an example of the call in the API Explorer.
Getting the same data via a search operation isn't guaranteed to return everything; the search index isn't a replacement for the backend data that you can obtain via the youtube.playlistItems.list() call. It's very much the same point raised in this blog post (though the focus there is on v2).
To summarize, to get all the uploads from a channel, you need to get the items from the uploads playlist for the channel using playlistItems.list on that playlist's ID rather than calling search.list on the channel ID.
Looking at the YouTube API v3 Search documentation, it states that the order parameter is used to control ordering of API response resource results. However, when attempting to order by date, I'm not receiving the results in reverse chronological order as specified. In fact, they are not in any order whatsoever.
API Request with order date using API Explorer UI:
Is there some other way I should be requesting for results to be ordered by the time they were published on YouTube? Is there a bug in the handling of the order API parameter?
There's no bug; the 'order' parameter will sort results based on when the resources were created, This value may be slightly different than when a video is published, as a resource is created when an upload begins but a video is published when the upload finishes and is processed.
In this case, it looks like the 10 or so most recent videos were all uploaded at the exact same time (YouTube.com has a batch uploader), so you're getting the order they were created in, even though the published dates reflect minor differences (maybe a couple took a bit longer to upload or something). IF you scan the full list of results, though, you'll see they play out just fine in terms of their reverse chronological order. And generally you probably won't have so many videos that were batch uploaded like this.
I can search lat/long with YouTube v3 successfully,
https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search?part=snippet,id&maxResults=50&type=video& videoType=any&key=foobar&location=40.7127,74.0059&locationRadius=100km
However, the response doesnt give me the individual videos lat/lng in the results.
The API doc says:
The part parameter specifies a comma-separated list of one or more
search resource properties that the API response will include. Set the
parameter value to snippet.
I cannot find any other search resource properties besides id and snippet in Search:list.
(Why would the API include that first sentence if there are only 2 options?) I digress.
Question-
Is there any way that I can retrieve YT videos lat/long based on lat/long search?
You can have lat/long parameters of the videos you own or manage. But due to privacy reasons (been able to locate people from their uploads.) you won't be able to get specific geolocations of other people's uploads.