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&
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I want to get channel IDs for all YouTube channels in Japan.
I tried to set the following parameters and call /search of YouTube Data API v3.
part: id
maxResults: 50
regionCode: jp
type: channel
pageInfo.totalResults in the API response is about 200,000 but actually I can only get 583 channel IDs.
583 is too little even if pageInfo.totalResults is an approximate value.
I would like to know how to get all the channel IDs in Japan, either by using the API or not.
I hope you will be able to provide the related information.
I tried to do almost the same for France. As said #stvar there isn't any appropriate endpoint to do so. However with patience and work we can make a kind of work around. My method only retrieves Japanese YouTube channels having indirectly publicly interacted with your starting set (see below).
Get a good starting set (in order to maximize the discover of the Japanese YouTube channels graph). I recommend you for instance to retrieve the top 100 Japanese YouTube channels sorted by view count by using SocialBlade.
For each channel discovered by the comments retrieved at step 3 (automatically) choose whether or not it is a Japanese YouTube channel. You can retrieve this piece of information if it is available for the channel in the "About" tab. To do it in an automatic way check whether or not snippet["country"] == "JP" in https://youtube.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/channels?part=snippet&id=CHANNEL_ID&key=YOUR_API_KEY If country isn't defined you can try to guess (automatically) whether or not it is a Japanese YouTube channel by making more complex checks see isFrench function. These checks are based on "About" tab and uploaded videos.
If the channel is interesting you (is Japanese) retrieve all comments (and so the YouTube channel about channel's videos and in the community tab using CommentThreads: list with part containing snippet and allThreadsRelatedToChannelId filter. If this method doesn't return any data because a video has disabled comments then retrieve the videos list and comments associated using (a) then CommentThreads: list with filter videoId. The approach (a) consists in getting the uploads auto-created playlist id of the YouTube channel by using Channels: list with contentDetails in part and then use PlaylistItems: list to retrieve all public videos uploaded on this YouTube channel. And if the YouTube channel contains more than 20 000 videos which is the upper limit for playlist size, use this script instead of (a). The script consists in faking requests done when browsing videos on a YouTube channel.
Then continue to dive into the Japanese YouTube channel graph by discovering Japanese YouTube channels through the comments found in your starting set and so on.
You can have a look for more details and some helping tools on my GitHub repository dedicated to the same approach for France (I was trying to list all comments let on French YouTube videos).
Of course you might need multithreading and group your YouTube Data API v3 request to reach maxResults upper limit in order to maximize your quota efficiency. Good luck.
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[]
I am using YouTube's new "Subscription Collection" feature: it works great and is exactly what I'm looking for: the complete list of videos for a subset of my subscriptions.
Now I would like to get this list of videos through the API.
To be clear: I do NOT want the list of subscriptions. I want the videos in those subscriptions.
For example, this is the HTML page with the list of videos. It is public, so anyone can access them.
Normally the URLs for getting via a video list through the API look like this.
I've tried different ways of replacing "favorites" or "top_rated" with my collection id, but couldn't get any to work.
You need to get the Channel ID for the subscription/channel your interested in getting.
Then if your using Version 3 of the API you can use 'youtube.search.list' with the following parameters
part: snippet
channelId: [Channel your interested in]
type:video
This will get you the videos in that channel. If your using V2 I think you can use the users feed
http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/{userName/ChannelID}/uploads
I've explored most of this topic using the previous question How do I get a list of uploaded videos for a certain channel with the new YouTube Data API (V3)?, but I wanted some specifics that build upon the answer given.
Is it possible to use the channel's username without calling a search query to get the channel ID? I have an https request that can get a search list shown below, but I'd rather not waste API quotas when I know the exact channel username.
https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search?q={channel_username}&key={my_api_key}&part=snippet
My hack for this is just take a videoid from the channel and extract a uploader ID from there, but its not elegant and won't work if the upload is removed.
Also, once I've worked my way down to getting the uploads key, how can I get a json that shows all of the uploads and not just a list of 25? If I do have to recursively call pages of uploads, how can I do that?
Thanks.
I think that to get a channel, using the channel's username, the only option is to use the search, and the best strategy to minimize the use of quota is to use a cache, or save the channel ID.
For a full list of videos uploaded, as JSON, you can use contentDetails.relatedPlaylists.uploads (the ID of the playlist that contains the channel's uploaded videos) and retrieve the PlaylistItems, using pages with 50 items per page, and using the nextPageToken value to retrieve each page in the result set.
I've found the answer. The correct way to go about it is to query the site using the search, but directly state the type of list to respond with, in effect searching only channels. This is done by
https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search?q={search_term}&key={API_key}&type=channel&part=snippet
As you can see the type is channel. By searching with a search term of the exact channel username, you'll get a return list with the first item object as the channel, and you can store the channel ID and upload ID from there.
To update this answer, you need to recognise the "quota limits".
As such, to use the "search?q=[search]" will incur a 100 quota usage.
Better to use "channels?part=id&forUsername={username]" as is only a quota of 1.
Then you can use "channels?part=id,snippet ....... &id={channel_ID]" to grab all your data