I'm using youtube api to get videos from a playlist :
GET https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/playlistItems?part=snippet&playlistId=PL2MJN9x8D1E74fQH39DPaKP2b6SBMpeBi&key={YOUR_API_KEY}
what i want to know !
is there a way to use publishedAt filter to this api to get videos that where published after certain date ?
The publishedAt getting returned from a Playlist query is the date the video was added to the playlist, rather than the date the video was published on YouTube.
For example, the first two items in the playlist say:
"publishedAt": "2015-03-14T14:39:51.000Z"
"publishedAt": "2015-03-14T14:40:20.000Z"
You may need to loop through the results and do another request (can use multiple URL-encoded, comma-separated ids to save requests) on each videoId to get the actual published dates
GET https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/videos?part=snippet&id=etAIpkdhU9Q%2CLo2qQmj0_h4&key={YOUR_API_KEY}
"publishedAt": "2013-03-08T11:15:44.000Z"
"publishedAt": "2013-03-11T07:00:41.000Z"
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How can i get a youtube playlist duration (the sum of all it's videos durations).
I used this endpoint to get the playlist videos :
https://youtube.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/videos?playlistId
and it's return the videos object with all videos ids, in this case i need to make an api call to get each video length with separate api call to :
https://youtube.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/videos
I searched for a solution for this and found that we can make a call to previous api with all ids each id with a query param ex. id=aaaaa&id=bbbbb, but i need to be the owner of these videos to make the request.
Is there any way to get all videos with one call and without being the owner of the videos ?
How can I input search parameters using the YouTube API so that I only get video ID's from topic channels? For instance, if I go to youtube.com and manually search "Hello Adele - Topic" I correctly get the song, 'Hello' from the 'Adele - Topic' channel as my first search result, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WS9w10ygpU.
However, if I perform the same query using the YouTube Data API, with the parameters:
part='snippet'
q='Hello Adele - Topic'
I won't get back the ID for the correct video. Is there any way to get this programmatically?
As stated in this thread, auto generated channels have no videos. They have only playlists with videos from other channels. So you have to look for playlists. You may check the sample request in this link.
Here's the URL sample of auto-generated Topic-based Id which grabs its playlist id:
GET https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/playlists?part=snippet&channelId=HC9m3exs6zk1U&fields=items%2Fid&key={YOUR_API_KEY}
//Outputs sample playlist Id: LP9m3exs6zk1U
Now here's the URL sample using that playlist Id to get the videos from the auto-generated Topic-based channel Id:
GET https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/playlistItems?part=snippet&maxResults=5&playlistId=LP9m3exs6zk1U&key={YOUR_API_KEY}
//Outputs video data you want.
Hope this helps.
I'm querying YouTube channels to retrieve playlist metadata like this:
https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/playlistItems?part=snippet%2CcontentDetails&maxResults=5&playlistId={PLAYLIST_ID}&key={API_KEY}
This query returns an array of all of the videos on the channel. Each object in that array includes various fields that provide metadata on each video, but none of these fields include the tags associated with the video. I can get that data using a query like this:
https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/videos?key={API_KEY}&fields=items(snippet(title,description,tags))&part=snippet&id={VIDEO_ID}
The problem with that is that now I need to issue a separate query for every single video that comes back in the first query.
So, my question is, is there a way that I can get these tags included as part of the initial JSON object from the first query? Can I add any parameters that will request this data be included with that response?
Thanks for any help!
Short answer: No.
The PlaylistItems: list documentation does not show a way to get video tags from the playlistItems endpoint. The only parts available are id, snippet, status and contentDetails and neither of those contain tags.
However!
You do not have to make a request for each video in the playlist! The documentation states:
The id parameter specifies a comma-separated list of the YouTube video ID(s) for the resource(s) that are being retrieved. In a video resource, the id property specifies the video's ID. (string)
That means you can supply multiple, comma-separated video ids to the videos endpoint.
Example:
GET https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/videos?part=snippet&id=kOkQ4T5WO9E,a59gmGkq_pw,Io0fBr1XBUA&key={YOUR_API_KEY}
So in total, it will cost you two requests to get the tags of all videos in a playlist.*
*In practice, you might have to make more than two requests. If I remember correctly, YouTube limits the returned items to 50 per request. Thus, if the playlist contains more than 50 videos, you will have to make another request with the pageToken parameter set.
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.
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