YouTube Content ID API - Views and earnings per asset - youtube-api

Assuming that I'm quite new to the YouTube Content ID API (and in general to YouTube Content ID), i'm looking for a method for get quickly the views and the earnings of a single asset.
Analyzing the YouTube Analytics API, I have not found anything making reference to the assets,
then I tried to base myself on the claims to obtain the data which I need. It's work, but, having to walk multiple pages, this takes many requests to the YouTube API server and it responds really slowly.
I would like, in practice, achieve a similar result:
I'm using PHP for this, but I do mostly GET requests directly basing on the documentation of YouTube Content ID API

I've found the solution:
Using the Youtube Analytics API:
ids=contentOwner==MY_CONTENT_OWNER_ID
start-date=my_start_date
end-date=my_end_date
metrics=estimatedMinutesWatched,averageViewDuration,averageViewPercentage, views,subscribersGained
dimensions=video
filters=claimedStatus==claimed
max-results=10
sort=-views
I can obtain the top 10 videos claimed sorted by views.
With the video ids, I can get the views, the earnings and the asset id using the ClaimSearch reference in YouTube Content ID API I can find the rest of the informations that I need.
EDIT:
There is a dimension missed on the official documentation: asset.
I've updated the query of Analytics API:
ids=contentOwner==MY_CONTENT_OWNER_ID
start-date=my_start_date
end-date=my_end_date
metrics=estimatedMinutesWatched,averageViewDuration,averageViewPercentage, views,subscribersGained
dimensions=asset
filters=claimedStatus==claimed
max-results=10
sort=-views
and it show directly the assets.

Related

How can I get YouTube playlist views count?

Does anyone know how this website is able to get historical views data for YouTube playlists?
From my research, YouTube API doesn't even let you get the current playlist views (I might be wrong).
I am talking about the playlist views, not the views from videos that were added to the playlist (you can see the view count here for example, on the left side - on desktop).
How can we get access to this type of data?
One more time YouTube Data API v3 doesn't provide a basic feature.
I would recommend you to use my open-source YouTube operational API. Indeed by requesting the JSON document https://yt.lemnoslife.com/playlists?part=statistics&id=PLAYLIST_ID containing item["statistics"]["viewCount"] integer, your problem is solved.
You can request up to maxResults (currently 50) playlists separating playlist ids by a comma in id, example: https://yt.lemnoslife.com/playlists?part=statistics&id=PLAYLIST_ID_0,PLAYLIST_ID_1,...,PLAYLIST_ID_49
You can also request the title of the playlist by adding snippet to part, example: https://yt.lemnoslife.com/playlists?part=snippet,statistics&id=PLAYLIST_ID

Youtube api v3 - list of deleted vids

we are using the youtube api to keep track of youtube videos. currently we "watch" around 30k videos. now we have the issue that we want to figure out which videos have been deleted. is there some way to get e.g. a list of all deleted vids of a channel or some other way?
sending a single request (and handling 404) for each video doesn't seem to be a good idea.
I guess you can not do it with only youtube api.
You can create your own database of all your videos and channels and periodically sync it with youtube to check what video status changed or not exists in list anymore.
Youtube API has method Videos.list, it returns list of all your videos.
Another tricky way: load every video url and check the size of content instead of parsing html.
If video exists then content size about 50kb, if not - 15kb. It seems youtube do not pass Content-Length header. That's why you need to load content to check size.
But I prefer the first way.

YouTube API Search by Tags

I'm trying to add videos to an existing ASP.NET MVC site, and I'd like to show videos from our YouTube channel.
I have added a tag to each video to indicate what page it should appear on. I had thought that I could search our channel by tag on each page to render the relevant video on that page.
I'm trying to exclusively use the API v3, but it seems I can't do this.
I can't use developer tags, because videos are uploaded by multiple users using the standard YouTube front end. This seems like basic functionality, so I'm assuming it's my inexperience with this API.
As an example, our YouTube channel is ChillinWithCharlie. During development, one video is tagged 20141213Cheneys.
I can get all videos in our channel, but is there a way to query the v3 API to retrieve just this video?
I've seen one suggestion here that I retrieve all videos, and filter in code. This feels inefficient, so I'd rather not do this, but I can't even see where the tag is returned with all channel videos, that I could interrogate in code.
It's not just you. There seems to be no specific query parameter to search by tag with API v3.
I would recommend doing a search with your tag in the 'q' (search) parameter, then checking the results to see if the tag exists in the returned snippet->tags property to verify the exact video.
Note YouTube tags are only visible to the video's uploader.
https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/videos#snippet.tags[]

YouTube Preferred Channels Feed or API

I'm looking to programmatically discover the YouTube Preferred channels (Examples: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiq_aAkP44mMpRx8VvQiF6w/channels?shelf_id=5204494150831773367&view=49 and https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpXBkrx5YWAe8I9nbmLK_fA/channels?) but the channel pages with their AJAX lists is all I've found. Obviously it would be much easier to crawl an API or an RSS feed (or even a static HTML page!) and I've yet to find anything like that with each of the YouTube Preferred channel ids.
Am I missing something? Do these preferred channel lists really only exist in this one form?
Edit #1: I have tried to use the YouTube Data API to pull these "Preferred" channels' playlists via /channel/lists, but both efforts were a bust as the /channel/list only returned the single top-level channel and the playlists were empty.
Edit #2: I tried the solution from this: Youtube api get the channels from the Featured channels module and it did not work (despite this question being tagged as a duplicate of it).
You can use the channelSections.list endpoint with the Google Preferred channel id (UCiq_aAkP44mMpRx8VvQiF6w), the preferred channel ids are in the contentDetails separated in 1% and 5% groups
Example: https://developers.google.com/apis-explorer/#p/youtube/v3/youtube.channelSections.list?part=contentDetails&channelId=UCiq_aAkP44mMpRx8VvQiF6w&_h=1&

YouTube API comments streaming

Is there any YouTube API which enables external applications to search for keyword/brand name across all video comments on YouTube and send it back to some URL? Also, pull method is fine if the proposed push idea does not exist.
So I would like to know if my brand was mentioned in any video comment on YouTube, similar as what Twitter allows with User/Site Streams.
The YouTube API (v2.0) defines comments as a property of the video object. Details on this relationship here:
https://developers.google.com/youtube/2.0/developers_guide_protocol_comments?hl=en#Retrieve_comments
Therefore, in order to search every YouTube comment you would need to traverse the entire collection of videos. If you're going to attempt something like this, it makes sense to validate your concept by first focusing on the feeds or categories that are most relevant to your brand. Details on feed and categories here:
https://developers.google.com/youtube/2.0/developers_guide_protocol_video_feeds
https://developers.google.com/youtube/2.0/developers_guide_protocol_category_keyword_browsing
No, there isn't anything like this available from the existing youtube api (neither V2 nor V3)

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