I would like to display a list of videos from a YouTube playlist in an intranet application.
Is it possible to get the list of videos from a YouTube playlist using the Data api (or any other way) without requiring the user to login?
Everything that I have read so far in the YouTube data api requires the user to be signed in to authenticate.
unfortunately, you can't access youtube data API with anonymously user.
Your application must have authorization credentials to be able to use the YouTube Data API.
The Developers Console associates your credentials with the APIs that you indicate that your application will use. Note that the Developers Console does not allow you to select the YouTube Data API (v2). However, authorization credentials for the v3 API will also work for the v2 API.
If possible, you should actually use YouTube Data API (v3) rather than the v2 API in your application. The YouTube API blog explains some of the benefits that the newer API offers, and we have added a year's worth of additional functionality to the API since that blog post!
related link : https://developers.google.com/youtube/2.0/developers_guide_protocol_oauth2#OAuth2_Client_Side_Web_Applications_Flow
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The API Explorer returns 403 forbidden with fetchMine=True https://developers.google.com/youtube/partner/docs/v1/contentOwners/list
Used Google OAuth 2.0 and API key. Is it compulsory to be a a partner to gain access to the data?
directly from the documentation page.
ContentOwners: list
Note: The YouTube Content ID API is intended for use by YouTube content partners and is not accessible to all developers or to all YouTube users. If you do not see the YouTube Content ID API as one of the services listed in the Google API Console, see the YouTube Help Center to learn more about the YouTube Partner Program.
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you need to be a YouTube partner to access this method.
I am currently writing a python script to pull information from YouTube Analytics API for a list of separate YouTube channels. The output would be, for example, count video views for each YouTube channel in last month.
My initial idea was to ask each of the YouTube account owners to create a YouTube Analytics app in their console.cloud.google, create a Project, enable the youTube Analytics API, generate an API key and specify that it is needed for the YouTube Analytics API.
I'm testing with one account and if I try to run the script using the API Key generated with the process described above and authenticating like this:
def get_service():
return build('youtubeAnalytics', 'v2', developerKey=API_KEY)
it fails with a HttpError 401 Request is missing required authentication credential. Expected OAuth 2 access token, login cookie or other valid authentication credential. See https://developers.google.com/identity/sign-in/web/devconsole-project.
I am not sure if I have done something wrong in creating the API key, or if instead the YouTube Analytics API requires Oauth2 authentication. If the latter is the case, then I am surprised that google console lets you to go all the way and generate API keys and specify that they are needed for the YouTube Analytics API, only for you to find out that you can't use it.
So my question is: do I have to use Oauth2 for YouTube Analytics API or can I use the API key? I'm trying to read data from "my own" account, so why do I need to manually authorise my own app?
Ok I found out that it is not possible to use YouTube Analytics API without OAuth 2.0 authentication. The Google docs and the Google console are very confusing in my opinion as they respectively allow you to create API keys specific for YouTube Analytics API and describe API keys as a possible way to authenticate (only to tell you after that, that all methods require OAuth2.0).
I'm still unclear on how to setup YouTube Analytics API authentication for a command-line python script that does not require users to give manually consent every time the script runs.
I will open a separate question for that.
Set key parameter. You can read data with api key. It's simple.
http -v 'https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/playlistItems?playlistId={playlistId}&part=id,snippet,contentDetails,status&key={api_key}&max_results=10'
We're working on an integration with youtube channels (using Youtube Data Api v3). We need to access the videos (private also) on our user's channels.
The flow is the following:
User authorizes his/her youtube account on our site using OAuth.
We show user the list of videos on user's youtube channel.
User selects some of them (they can be private) and sends us for processing.
We need to somehow access the actual video files which the user asks us to process.
The issue is that youtube does not give any streaming URLs or download links.
Looks like, the API provides only iframe embedded code, which works ONLY for the browser, where the user is actually logged into youtube.
How can we access(can we?!) the private video, if we have the OAuth access-token of the video owner?
The YouTube Data API lets you incorporate functions normally executed on the YouTube website into your own website or application. The lists below identify the different types of resources that you can retrieve using the API. The API also supports methods to insert, update, or delete many of these resources. This in a sense means that you can see most of what you can see on the YouTube website including uploading new videos.
Downloading Youtube videos is against their Terms of Service, so the API does not support that.
Page linked above refers to Youtube ToS that states:
You shall not download any Content unless you see a “download” or similar link displayed by YouTube on the Service for that Content.
YouTube partners may have access to this feature in their API (no idea i have never seen the api), if you have access to this i suggest you contact your manager directly they should be able to instruct you on how to access it assuming the feature exists.
I have some issues with V2 (Error code 400) so I'm trying to move to Youtube Api V3 from V2.
I'm using C# and I've been searching how to upload videos to Youtube with api key on V3 .NET
Where can i find an example,explanation or a document for that?
https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/code_samples/dotnet#upload_a_video
You need to go through OAuth2. If you are trying to upload into your own account, then this segment explains how to: https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/guides/moving_to_oauth#standalone
Basically, you go through once and save the token from there.
If you even want to skip that one time as well, you can get a refresh token in OAuth2 Playground with respected scopes and plug it in directly in your code, with client secret and id. That way your script won't need a web browser.
Here's the video explaining this workflow step-by-step.
I'm getting a 403 Forbidden error when trying to get youtube analytics api data using a CMS account.
Just to confirm, is a CMS account the same thing as a Service account?
I can get analytics data for channels that are owned by the oauth2 user but I get the 403 on any other channels that I have access to through my CMS account but am not the content owner of. (I have Administrator account level on the CMS account and the channels I get 403 error on have "Managed" relationship)
Question: Are there any plans to have youtube.analytics api support for querying channels managed under a CMS account?
It seems that since I can use that account to get all the analytics data for these channels using the CMS UI that I should be able to do the same using the API.
A YouTube Content Management System account is not the same thing as a Service Account. You won't get far with the YouTube APIs if you authenticate as a Service Account, since that Service Account won't have access to any actual YouTube channels. Authenticating as a CMS account, however, will give you what you want.
A lot of this recently made it into production, so let me lay out the full steps here explaining how folks with YouTube CMS access can run YouTube Analytics API reports against the channels and videos they manage.
(Optional) While authorized via OAuth 2 as the CMS account, using both the https://www.googleapis.com/auth/youtube.readonly and https://www.googleapis.com/auth/youtubepartner scopes, make a YouTube Data API v3 channels.list() call with the following parameters: part=snippet,contentDetails, managedByMe=true, maxResults=50, onBehalfOfContentOwner=CONTENT_OWNER_ID. CONTENT_OWNER_ID is the one value that you'll have to hardcode here, and it should be set to the "partner code" for your YouTube CMS account. This will give you back a list of up to 50 channels that your CMS account manages. (If you need more than 50, you'll need to page through the results.) The id of each channel will be returned in channel.id, and other useful information (like the uploads list id, if you want to get the list of videos in that channel) will also be returned.
If you already know the UC... channel id for the channel you want to run reports against, you could skip that step and go directly to the Analytics report.
To run a channel-level report on a managed channel, while authorized as the CMS account, make a YouTube Analytics API request with the following parameters: ids=contentOwner==CONTENT_OWNER_ID, filters=channel==UC..., and then any other report parameters you want.
To run a video-level report, set ids=contentOwner==CONTENT_OWNER_ID and filters=video==VIDEO_ID, where VIDEO_ID is the id of any video in any channel that the CMS account manages.
There are more details about content owner reports in the docs.