There are changes made on the Youtube API, i see bunch of stuff.
But all i want is to get the Youtube title and img thumbnail. DO i really need to go all the stuff regestering for api, etc just to get the title and img of a single video.
So i figured it out.
Yes, you really need to register an to the API Developers Console.
if you are like me and just want to get the title or thumbnail use the
Public API access
but if you are looking more for the extreme controls on your video out of youtube. You can do that but you have to use the
OAuth Credentials
to get simple data i used >>THIS<< basically the snippet holds the information for the Video like title,uploaded by,uploaded on etc. .
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Youtube added the ability to break up their videos in the progress bar into sections called "chapters". As seen here Video Chapters
I would like to post a video via API and add chapters, I have not been able to find any documentation or example in the API about this.
This method is not currently available in the YouTube Data api, it appears to just be part of YouTube studio.
YOu may want to add a feature request maybe its something they will add to the api.
I am trying to get the normalized game name using youtube API for a video if it is in Gaming category.
For example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIvWgSpy31k, for this video I can see its normalized game name is the description:
But when I use the videos.list method, I can not see this returned. After checking all the properties for the video, I can not find it either.
Is there any way to fetch the game name?
That information isn't exposed by the YouTube API. You can see that by checking the documentation for Videos.list which returns a list of videos resources this is the information available about a video.
You can request it as a new feature here gdata-issues why they are using a gdata forum for issues I have no idea.
I've encountered the same problem, so far in 2020 they haven't implemented it yet. It looks more like business issue. The only way to get game title bound to video is webscraping. I've used headless browser library for Java called HtmlUnit. When you go to the direct url of the video you want to scrape just get html from it and use the regex listed below to acquire game title.
(?<=,"title":\{"simpleText":").*?(?="},"subtitle")
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.
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[]
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)