Using the youtube livestream API with a youtube partner channel - youtube-api

Question

I remain perpetually stumped on this one. I have a youtube channel, of which, I am an owner. I have been using OAuth2 and authenticate to my owner account, then provide access to my youtube account with the following access domains
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/youtubepartner, https://www.googleapis.com/auth/youtube.force-ssl, https://www.googleapis.com/auth/youtube.readonly, https://www.googleapis.com/auth/youtube
I issue the youtube.liveStreams().list command in the python google api interface with a variety of parameters but never do I get back a useful piece of information.
I currently have an unlisted stream running, DsjbycJHosw.
list_streams_request = youtube.liveStreams().list( part="snippet", id="DsjbycJHosw" )` responds with `{'etag': '"m2...gE"', 'kind': 'youtube#liveStreamListResponse', 'items': [], 'pageInfo': {'totalResults': 0, 'resultsPerPage': 5}}
list_streams_request = youtube.liveStreams().list( part="snippet", mine="true" )` responds with `{'etag': '"m2...gE"', 'kind': 'youtube#liveStreamListResponse', 'items': [], 'pageInfo': {'totalResults': 0, 'resultsPerPage': 5}}
list_streams_request = youtube.liveStreams().list( part="snippet", broadcastStatus="all" ) gives me a python error. Looks like the Python API doesn't support that. TypeError: Got an unexpected keyword argument "broadcaststatus
list_streams_request = youtube.liveStreams().list( part="snippet", onBehalfOfContentOwner="[Channel Youtube UserID (base64)]" )` responds with `b'{\n "error": {\n "errors": [\n {\n "domain": "youtube.parameter",\n "reason": "missingRequiredParameter",\n "message": "No filter selected. Expected one of: mine, id, default",\n "locationType": "parameter",\n "location": ""\n }\n ],\n "code": 400,\n "message": "No filter selected. Expected one of: mine, id, default"\n }\n}\n'
Ok, so, I need to give it something in conjunction with my channel's ID, right? Let's add a "mine"=true.
list_streams_request = youtube.liveStreams().list( part="snippet", onBehalfOfContentOwner="[Channel Youtube User ID(base64)]", mine="true" )` responds with `b'{\n "error": {\n "errors": [\n {\n "domain": "youtube.parameter",\n "reason": "invalidMine",\n "message": "The \\u003ccode\\u003emine\\u003c/code\\u003e parameter cannot be used in requests where the authenticated user is a YouTube partner. You should either remove the \\u003ccode\\u003emine\\u003c/code\\u003e parameter, authenticate as a YouTube user by removing the \\u003ccode\\u003eonBehalfOfContentOwner\\u003c/code\\u003e parameter, or act as one of the partners channels by providing the \\u003ccode\\u003eonBehalfOfContentOwnerChannel\\u003c/code\\u003e parameter if available for the called method.",\n "locationType": "parameter",\n "location": "mine"\n }\n ],\n "code": 400,\n "message": "The \\u003ccode\\u003emine\\u003c/code\\u003e parameter cannot be used in requests where the authenticated user is a YouTube partner. You should either remove the \\u003ccode\\u003emine\\u003c/code\\u003e parameter, authenticate as a YouTube user by removing the \\u003ccode\\u003eonBehalfOfContentOwner\\u003c/code\\u003e parameter, or act as one of the partners channels by providing the \\u003ccode\\u003eonBehalfOfContentOwnerChannel\\u003c/code\\u003e parameter if available for the called method."\n }\n}\n'
Really? Come on now, Mr. API. What about if I use onBehalfOfContentOwnerChannel?
list_streams_request = youtube.liveStreams().list( part="snippet", onBehalfOfContentOwnerChannel="[My base64 channel ID]" )` yeilds `b'{\n "error": {\n "code": 500,\n "message": null\n }\n}\n'
And every combination I can think of just gives me tons of error code 500's.
I also can't seem to set forContentOwner in the python API, so no dice there. How is one supposed to do this?

Answer 1

This is no longer an issue. As of Jan, 2018, they've resolved it. The APIs behave exactly as expected as youtube partners can do the oauth permissions, now.