Is there a way to order videos from a playlist using PlaylistItems:list? For example, when using the API to fetch related videos to a video using Search:list, you can order the videos returned by date, rating, relevance, etc.
The docs entry for PlaylistItems:list doesn't show such a feature, so I would say it's impossible to do it directly.
You could achieve this manually, though, by fetching all the videos' data and writing an algorithm that orders them.
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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
I would like to know how the related videos list is determined when using the API to retrieve a list of related videos for a particular video. Is this determined using the title, description and keywords of the video only? Or is collaborative filtering also used?
I am experimenting with YouTube's API, and I am trying to figure out how to return an ordered list of videos by the most number of likes.
I know I can access the number of likes using the video list query, but that is not going to get me what I need.
I need the search query response to have the videos already sorted by most liked.
Is there any query to the API that will do that?
Thanks,
Nathan
The YouTube API does not support ordering video search results by likes.
Order by rating order=rating and number of results with maxResults= For example:
fetch(`https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search?&channelId=${CHANNEL_ID}&maxResults=1&order=rating&type=video&key=${API_KEY}`)
I want to output last videos and popular videos of my youtube channel.
Is there any standart widget, api method for this?
Based on this answer, you can use the YouTube Data V3 API to get the uploads playlist ID, which you can then use to get the latest videos in that playlist. You can change the value of maxResults to return however many videos you want (from 0 to 50).
Use the search:list method to get your most viewed videos by specifying the channel ID and setting order=viewcount (not quite sure what you want when you say popular videos, you could also set order=rating to get the highest rated videos). This video might also help you out.
When using the YouTube api to query and retrieve videos, is there a way to limit results only official content? I want to retrieve the new music videos for certain artists but I want to make sure I am only receiving real videos and not UGC stuff. Can this be accomplished? Thank you.
There is no search parameter that ensures that you only get back "real" music videos. (And the line between a "real" video and user-generated content isn't always clear.)