How to get a single video from YouTube using its id? - youtube-api

Question

I am trying to use the YouTube Data API v3 to get a single video from its YouTube id. I am using the Google API python client. When I try to execute the following code:
search_response = youtube.search().list(
id="QkhBcLk_8f0",
part="snippet",
).execute()
I always get this error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "search.py", line 55, in <module>
youtube_search(args)
File "search.py", line 24, in youtube_search
part="snippet",
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/googleapiclient/discovery.py",
line 669, in method
raise TypeError('Got an unexpected keyword argument "%s"' % name)
TypeError: Got an unexpected keyword argument "id"
But I know there is a id parameter in the API, as it is listed in the reference.
Anybody know what am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

You should use youtube.videos() method.
youtube.videos().list(id="QkhBcLk_8f0",part="snippet").execute()
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