Certain videos not showing up in the api results - youtube

Question

I have noticed that all videos from the account, Kanye West - Topic, don't show up in the api results. Does anyone have a reason why or a solution to fix this? For example, when I use the api search GET https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search?part=snippet&channelId=UCRY5dYsbIN5TylSbd7gVnZg&type=video&key={YOUR_API_KEY}, it says there are 961 total results but the items section is empty.

Answer 1

Your GET request is correct but it's missing additional field resources parameters, so it doesn't know what you want to retrieve. I've added the fields to your GET REQUEST using the Google API Explorer and here's what it looks like:
https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search?part=snippet&channelId=UCRY5dYsbIN5TylSbd7gVnZg&maxResults=50&q=%22Kanye+West%22&fields=etag%2CeventId%2Citems%2Ckind%2CnextPageToken%2CpageInfo%2CprevPageToken%2CregionCode%2CtokenPagination%2CvisitorId&key={API_KEY_HERE}
And the response was:
{
"kind": "youtube#searchListResponse",
"etag": "\"GM4ZnRh2gk1X1BLWgHklTm-3cgQ/6VdmXA4FhXjg08y58iRnmXZY7wQ\"",
"nextPageToken": "CDIQAA",
"regionCode": "PH",
"pageInfo": {
"totalResults": 841,
"resultsPerPage": 50
},
"items": [
{
"kind": "youtube#searchResult",
"etag": "\"GM4ZnRh2gk1X1BLWgHklTm-3cgQ/VSzDMW_CqJw-OMjo_vzPR2P40eI\"",
"id": {
"kind": "youtube#channel",
"channelId": "UCRY5dYsbIN5TylSbd7gVnZg"
},
"snippet": {
"publishedAt": "2013-07-02T20:09:18.000Z",
"channelId": "UCRY5dYsbIN5TylSbd7gVnZg",
"title": "Kanye West - Topic",
"description": "Kanye Omari West is an American rapper, songwriter, record producer, fashion designer, and entrepreneur. Born in Atlanta and raised in Chicago, West first ...",
"thumbnails": {
"default": {
"url": "https://i.ytimg.com/i/RY5dYsbIN5TylSbd7gVnZg/1.jpg"
},
"medium": {
"url": "https://i.ytimg.com/i/RY5dYsbIN5TylSbd7gVnZg/mq1.jpg"
},
"high": {
"url": "https://i.ytimg.com/i/RY5dYsbIN5TylSbd7gVnZg/hq1.jpg"
}
},
"channelTitle": "Kanye West - Topic",
"liveBroadcastContent": "none"
}
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