YouTube Data API playlistitems.list-method doesn't respond - youtube-api

The YouTube Data API playlistitems.list-method doesn't respond since approximately 20 hours ago.
The following URL would have normally returned all the videos in that playlist: https://developers.google.com/apis-explorer/#p/youtube/v3/youtube.playlistItems.list?part=snippet%252Cid&id=UUuQHD9MgnRILjwdQaWZrBxA&fields=items%252Fid&_h=1&
Does anybody have an update on the method's status?

Based on the link you provided, it looks like you're providing the playlistID as the playlistItemId. It works when you provide the playlist ID in the correct field:
https://developers.google.com/apis-explorer/#p/youtube/v3/youtube.playlistItems.list?part=snippet%252Cid&playlistId=UUuQHD9MgnRILjwdQaWZrBxA&_h=3&

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Get all videos for a given user

I'm trying to find a way to retrieve all videos posted by a given user (eg: https://www.youtube.com/user/laliga/videos).
All the examples I've found online or the doc (https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/) seems to require either a playlist ID, channel ID or video ID.
Is there any way I can directly query the author's videos or am I forced to retrieve all playlists and then iterate over?
Thanks
You just need to map the user name to its channelID first via the YouTube API like so:
https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/channels?forUsername=USER_NAME&part=id&key=API_KEY
Full docs: https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/channels/list
Then you can make a Videos:List call with that channelID to get the videos.
1)take your google key id and channel id and put inside below url
https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search?key=APIKEY&channelId=CHANNELID&part=snippet,id&order=date&maxResults=20
ex
https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search?key=adsjsdakhkjshd&channelId=sdahghsadhgj&part=snippet,id&order=date&maxResults=20

YouTube API v3 Channels: list method doesn't work for some channels names

For some reason I can't get any information for some channels via API. For example this channel: http://youtube.com/vithorvascovv and API request
GET https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/channels?part=id&forUsername=vithorvascovv&key={YOUR_API_KEY}
gives me empty response. Why? You can try here with part=id and forUsername=vithorvascovv.
Even if I use search method like this:
GET https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search?part=id&q=vithorvascovv&type=channel&key={YOUR_API_KEY}
I have empty response but in same time channel can be found by using regular search on Youtube.
One more channel name with the same problem: Nsamurail
It looks like the user "vithorvascovv" merged with another channel. I'm not exactly sure why the username lookup no longer works, but I see that http://youtube.com/vithorvascovv redirects to https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsLprVocGZ9mUl6SGBZ91Ng. Using part=id and id=UCsLprVocGZ9mUl6SGBZ91Ng, I was able to return the proper results from the API.
For your second question, it looks like user "Nsamurail" changed their username to "xRidan" (http://www.youtube.com/Nsamurail redirects to https://www.youtube.com/user/xRidan). Using part=id and forUsername=xRidan, I was able to return the channel information from the API.
Question : How Can Fetch Playlists From Any Youtube Channel Name/User By Using YOUTUBE DATA API ?
Answer : When You Try To Do This We Always Face A Problem to apply "FILTER" in order to fetch Playlists , here you can use two different filters (forUsername,Id) in two different Youtube channel urls such as :
1. https://www.youtube.com/user/flashbuilding/playlists
Here channel name is : flashbuilding
Required Filter For API is: forUsername
Code Structure :
forUsername:flashbuilding
2. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJUmE61LxhbhudzUugHL2wQ/playlists
Here Chanel Name is not clear in this case:-
Required filter for API is : Id
Code Structure :
Id:UCJUmE61LxhbhudzUugHL2wQ
Note : use Id in API Filter section instead of API part Section

Can't get endAt on videos when calling

I'm using GET https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/playlistItems?part=contentDetails%2Csnippet&maxResults=50&playlistId=PLFs4vir_WsTwwb2zqmtE2WTEFdc7AQHnc&key={YOUR_API_KEY}
This returns all data, but only videoId in each video contentDetails. Maybe I'm missing something here?
YouTube has removed the features that set start and end times to playlist items: here's a product forum post that details this (and indicates an official response from Google account reps):
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/youtube/Gipu_cCDScI
Since playlists can no longer set start/end times on its items, the API no longer delivers them.
Not an answer, but a workaround. You can retrieve a playlist and use videos list with up to 50 videoIds in the URL to retrieve each video duration.

youtube v3 api : get all live streaming playlist ids of a channel

I have two "Live streaming/live broadcast saved playlists" in following youtube channel --> https://www.youtube.com/user/swaminarayanlive.
I am trying to retrieve all the "live streaming / live broadcast playlists" of a channel using new youtube v3 api by using the below link-->
https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/playlists?part=snippet&channelId=UCBkNpeyvBO2TdPGVC_PsPUA&key={YOUR_API_KEY}
here i can get the info of playlists which are not live streams or live broadcast. and not able to get the same for the live one.
Please help me how can i get that for live one using youtube v3 api
I was researching another issue with the API when finding this, and when I saw that this was never resolved, I decided to look into it. It turns out that this is related to that other issue.
The YouTube API v3 lacks support for saved playlists. The channel swaminarayanlive did not create the playlists, only saved them from the channel BhujMandir.
The workaround in your case would be to retrieve the playlists of BhujMandir and extract the response snippets with "title" parameters containing the word "Live".
You would need to go through the pages and search each one for this, since there is a limit to how many results an API response can show at once. Currently it's 50.
So, you would use the following to get the first page of playlistItems:
GET https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/playlists?part=snippet&channelId=UCVItNtUctAknegvmYcMhUQg&maxResults=50&key={YOUR_API_KEY}
This will return an API response containing the properties "kind" (which will have the value "youtube#playlistListResponse") and "etag". If there are more than 50 results, there will also be a "nextPageToken" property. (On a page that is not the first, there would also be a "prevPageToken" property.)
After these properties, there are two blocks. One called "pageInfo", containing info about how many results (playlists) there are and how many are shown per page, and one block called "items", containing the resulting playlistItems.
You would look through the items block for any playlistItem with a title property (which is a string) containing the substring "Live" and get the id properties of those. You would then look on the next page by using the nextPageToken's value in a new HTTP request, like so:
GET https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/playlists?part=snippet&channelId=UCVItNtUctAknegvmYcMhUQg&maxResults=50&pageToken=[nextPageToken_value_here]&key={YOUR_API_KEY}
As of now, the two playlists you're looking for are on the pages with tokens CJYBEAA and CMgBEAA.
I think that where is the {YOUR_API_KEY} you should change this code and insert the name of your application program interface

How to get all comments on a YouTube video?

Since Google has deprecated the YouTube v2 API, I cannot find a way to get all the comments from a video.
Is it possible to use a single, non-deprecated API (Google+, YT v3) to do that?
I am not concerned about maintaining threading.
Believe me it works
https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/commentThreads?key=******************&textFormat=plainText&part=snippet&videoId=kffacxfA7G4&maxResults=50
Key will be provided by the google developer console and 50 denotes 50 comments in form of a json, video id is the id of the video. For any type of queries comment below.
You can get only 100 at most at a time with the comments API. But you get a nextPageToken from the comment api response. Pass &pageToken={nextPageToken} to next api call, until the nextPageToken is undefined. Then you can get all comments if you like.
https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/commentThreads?key={your_api_key}&textFormat=plainText&part=snippet&videoId={video_id}&maxResults=100&pageToken={nextPageToken}
Apparently it is now possible to fetch comment threads.
(old answer)
Currently that's impossible with a first-party tool.
Source:
While v3 offers the majority of v2 functionality, there are currently
a couple of tasks that can only be done with the older API.
Specifically, applications that manage captions or that work with
video comments still need to use the v2 API until modern equivalents
are available. Our goal is to provide similar functionality well
before the April 2015 shut-off date—please subscribe to this blog, the
YouTube Data API v3 revision history page, or follow +YouTubeDev on
Google+ to keep up-to-date. -
http://apiblog.youtube.com/2014/03/committing-to-youtube-data-api-v3.html
TubeKit (YouTube crawling toolkit) might be of help to some.
You can fetch all the comments using https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/commentThreads
The Youtube API v3.0 allows you the following parameters.
textFormat - This parameter indicates whether the API should return comments formatted as HTML or as plain text. The default value is html.
videoId - The Youtube Video ID you want to fetch comments for ( if you dont know your Youtube Video ID, you can get one from Youtube Video ID Finder )
maxResults - The maxResults parameter specifies the maximum number of items that should be returned in the result set.
pageToken - The pageToken parameter identifies a specific page in the result set that should be returned. In an API response, the nextPageToken property identifies the next page of the result that can be retrieved.
$.ajax({
dataType: "jsonp",
type: 'GET',
url: "https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/commentThreads?key=PUT-YOUR-KEYXXXXXXX&textFormat=plainText&part=snippet&videoId=PUT-YOUR-VIDEO-ID",
success: function(result){
data = result;
$('.data').text(data);
console.log(data);
}});
To find PUT-YOUR-KEY(API key) ---> https://console.developers.google.com/apis/credentials then click on blue color button select API key option you can get

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