Freebase will be deprecated starting Tuesday, March 31st, what does this mean for topic based searches with the youtube api? Will these queries still work?
https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search?part=snippet&relevanceLanguage=en&topicId=%2Fm%2F04qf57&type=video&videoSyndicated=true&key={YOUR_API_KEY}
I think this will be unaffected since Google Knowledge Graph API, which is the replacement of Freebase, is able to search by topicId too.
Do not quote me on this one though as there's really no documented change notes on the Youtube Data API
Also, some SO posts that contains discussions regarding the possible impact and alternatives(as of the moment) to the use of Youtube Data API and topicIds can be found here and here
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Hey guys I'm not having an issue with the API directly, but with the documentation. I can make an API request and get the video topic details just fine, but I am looking for a master list of all topics.
According to the documentation the old style of topics that you can see here was depreciated in 2017 and replaced with Wikipedia articles. This is fine and a little better for my use case but I would like to get a list of all options. The documentation says
A list of Wikipedia URLs that provide a high-level description of the video's content.
which is not especially helpful haha. I think I found the Wikipedia Source for all music genres, and it looks like they are just using the "main" genres but I would like to confirm that. I also found this list of topics that looks similar but is from the natural language API documentation instead of the YouTube API documentation.
I could try and brute force it but that would require a considerable amount of effort with no real way to confirm my results. I also found this API but it just returns the top level categories.
I am also really only interested in the music categories.
It seems that the YouTube API doesn't give updated results for mostPopular videos in my country since few days.
Example:
This request (https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/videos?part=snippet,contentDetails&chart=mostpopular®ionCode=FR) doesn't give me the same videos results than the ones displayed directly on YouTube for the French most popular channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmzy72gDEpfXoFV9Xdtd0DQ). It seems that the results of this request is not updated since the 1th of february. Results was real time updated before this.
Does someone know if something is wrong with my API request, or if there are some issues with the YouTube API at this moment?
There is nothing wrong with your request. This is a known issue with the YouTube API reported here for Saudi Arabia (but also applicable to multiple regions), and another related issue here with regard to content from France.
Your best bet would be to follow up with the YouTube team on one of those defects, or potentially (and dangerously) scrape the YouTube site for the correct results.
Problem seems to be solved since 13th of february (maybe someone from Google have seen my post..)
YouTube Channels and chart=mostPopular parameter data are separate data entities, aka you will get different results. They may be related but there is no guarantee you will get the same data. To get the data that you want you may need to query for channel itself and its videos.
I got this information from the thread #Jal linked, there was an update by matthewc...#google.com a few days ago:
The most popular channel for Saudia
Arabia and
the mostPopular chart parameter in the video.list
call
are separate and distinct entities. If you'd like to get the content
of the most popular channel for Saudia
Arabia
please use the Data API video.list call to list the videos with the
channel ID (in this case "UCWY-_j1MCth6yf24m58Bh_Q") by setting the
items/snippet/channelId parameter.
My current concern right now is that there is supposedly a way to get video information from the videos.list endpoint using a channelId, which does not seem the case in the API Explorer. I will update my answer once I figure out what this person meant exactly.
I am wondering if anybody has any information or news regarding the API (if it exists yet?) of the new YouTube Cards (replacing the old annotations).
Is there any beta api information out yet?
I'm referring to this:
Thank you for your help
You can track the YouTube Developer Blog and also subscribe to the revision history of YouTube Data API v3, in order to get the latest info on the API, as soon as it is available. Currently (as of the last version of the API - April 27, 2015) there is no way to manage Cards, and I suspect that there would not be, at least not anytime soon.
I think so because currently even annotations are not fully supported by YouTube Data API v3 (they only added support for setting invideo annotations in v3). I suppose there is a specific reason that this feature has been missing for so long- maybe they don't want to unleash it because they foresee some problems that may arise if they do. It has been requested numerous times in the past by the community (See the last posts in this thread, where a YouTube representative has answered, also this question).
I'll investigate further to see if I can find any more info on future revisions of the API and will update my answer. Meanwhile, you can submit a feature request for Card Management API here. Good luck!
In youtube interface if we search for a term with spelling mistake, Interface provides an option to "search instead" for a similar term. for example
poovin maarile search gives you results for poovin marile
but while using youtube api version 3, poovin maarile gives zero results and poovin marile gives 230+ results. But there is no way in the api to get this very closely related term.
I am aware of spelling suggestions feature in version 2 but since version 2 is deprecated I am not interested in using it. Is there something similar for youtube data api version 3?
I don't think there's an official API for this at the moment.
You probably shouldn't rely on this being available in the future, but I think the only alternative at the moment is querying the same URL that YouTube and other pages use.
From another question: Youtube API search auto-complete
A page detailing the query parameters: Google Autocomplete API
Is it possible to get all comments for a video with the new (experimental) YouTube API v 3.0?
I only found how to get "activities" (in their terminology comment is a kind of activity) originating from a given account.
The api page says the api is not feature complete, so it is quite possible that functionality is not yet made available. Although I might've just missed it.
There's no support for retrieving comments using v3 of the API. We can't make any commitments to add in support for reading/writing comments at this time, so if your application depends on them, using v2 is required.