Get view count using Google Youtube API - youtube

Question

I want to get the view count of set of videos. Following is the relevant part of my code.
SearchResult singleVideo = iteratorSearchResults.next();
ResourceId rId = singleVideo.getId();
// Double checks the kind is video.
if (rId.getKind().equals("youtube#video")) {
Thumbnail thumbnail = singleVideo.getSnippet().getThumbnails().get("default");
System.out.println(" Video Id" + rId.getVideoId());
System.out.println(" Title: " + singleVideo.getSnippet().getTitle());
System.out.println(" Thumbnail: " + thumbnail.getUrl());
YouTube.Videos.List list = youtube.videos().list("statistics");
list.setId(rId.getVideoId());
list.setKey("youtube.apikey");
Video v = list.execute().getItems().get(0);
System.out.println("The view count is: "+v.getStatistics().getViewCount());
System.out.println("\n-------------------------------------------------------------\n");
}
This gives the following error in the line "YouTube.Videos.Lists list = youtube.videos().list("statistics");".
error: method list in class YouTube.Videos cannot be applied to given types;

Answer 1

If this is a compilation error then there might be some issue with the library version that you have included. I tried sample code from youtube API docs and it worked for me.
I have removed some extra code from the sample to show how view counts can be retrieved for a single video:
import com.google.api.client.googleapis.json.GoogleJsonResponseException;
import com.google.api.client.http.HttpRequest;
import com.google.api.client.http.HttpRequestInitializer;
import com.google.api.services.samples.youtube.cmdline.Auth;
import com.google.api.services.youtube.YouTube;
import com.google.api.services.youtube.model.Video;
import com.google.api.services.youtube.model.VideoListResponse;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.math.BigInteger;
public class GeolocationSearch {
public static void main(String[] args) {
try {
YouTube youtube = new YouTube.Builder(Auth.HTTP_TRANSPORT, Auth.JSON_FACTORY, new HttpRequestInitializer() {
#Override
public void initialize(HttpRequest request) throws IOException {
}
}).setApplicationName("APP_ID").build();
String apiKey = "API_KEY";
YouTube.Videos.List listVideosRequest = youtube.videos().list("statistics");
listVideosRequest.setId("lf_wVfwpfp8"); // add list of video IDs here
listVideosRequest.setKey(apiKey);
VideoListResponse listResponse = listVideosRequest.execute();
Video video = listResponse.getItems().get(0);
BigInteger viewCount = video.getStatistics().getViewCount();
System.out.println(" ViewCount: " + viewCount);
System.out.println("\n-------------------------------------------------------------\n");
} catch (GoogleJsonResponseException e) {
System.err.println("There was a service error: " + e.getDetails().getCode() + " : "
+ e.getDetails().getMessage());
} catch (IOException e) {
System.err.println("There was an IO error: " + e.getCause() + " : " + e.getMessage());
} catch (Throwable t) {
t.printStackTrace();
}
}
}