I've been trying to get the view count on videos that I query through the following method:
function search() {
var request = gapi.client.youtube.search.list({
part: 'snippet',
channelId: 'IRRELEVANT',
order: 'date',
maxResults: '25'
});
request.execute(function(response){
YoutubeResponse(response);
});
While the documentation tells me that there's a statistics portion to every video, after the snippet I have __proto__ which I guess means there was an error somewhere? or did the API change? Essentially I need the view count of those 25 most recent videos...
I tried changing part: 'snippet' to part: 'statistics' but got back a code: -32602...
Thanks for the help,
Cheers!
EDIT: Apparently the search.list doesn't have the "statistics" but rather I need to search every video individually... The thing is, when using googles "Try It" feature (https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/videos/list#try-it) when you ask for the statistics in the "Fields" part at the bottom, it doesn't do anything... So I am VERY confused as to how the heck can I get the view counts & length of all 25 videos (if individually or all at once - preferably-)
The link you gave https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/videos/list#try-it is working for me.
To get duration and viewCount: Fill in for part: contentDetails,statistics and for id: a comma-separated-list of video-id's like: TruIq5IxuiU,-VoFbH8jTzE,RPNDXrAvAMg,gmQmYc9-zcg
This will create a request as:
GET https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/videos?part=contentDetails,statistics&id=TruIq5IxuiU,-VoFbH8jTzE,RPNDXrAvAMg,gmQmYc9-zcg&key={YOUR_API_KEY}
Agree with the answer provided by #Als.
But I found a code snippet which might be more convenient for some of you:
function youtube_view_count_shortcode($params)
{
$videoID = $params['id']; // view id here
$json = file_get_contents("https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/videos?
part=statistics&id=" . $videoID . "&key=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx");
$jsonData = json_decode($json);
$views = $jsonData->items[0]->statistics->viewCount;
return number_format($views);
}
Replace the key value with the google api key for youtube data API and the video id with the youtube video id and Voila you get the total number of views for the youtube video.
Source: https://www.codementor.io/rajharajesuwari/how-to-get-youtube-views-count-aftojpxhj
Related
So for the YouTube Channel Mindless Self Indulgence it has 4 sections on the home tab first section is they're music videos playlist, the 2nd section is albums which is a group of different playlists, then another playlist section and the last section is there uploads.
But when I do a channelSections api call I get like 20 different items and it has me scratching my head why.
Here's the api response https://notepad.pw/raw/w27ot290s
https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/channelSections?key={KEYHERE}&channelId=UChS8bULfMVx10SiyZyeTszw&part=snippet,contentDetails
So I figured this out finally, I neglected to read the documentation on the channelSections api 😅
here: https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/channelSections
I was getting channel sections for all the regions where channel like music may more often have region specific sections... To filter these you need to also include the targeting object in the part parameter. If the section is region free (or atleast i assume) it won't have the targeting object so something to take into condertation when handling your api response and filter sectoins based on regions.
Here's my code just trying to get the data filtered in react app, not the most practical maybe but I fumbled through it:
const data = response2.data.items;
console.log("response2 data", data);
const filtered = data.filter(item => {
if (item.targeting === undefined) return true;
let test = false;
item.targeting.countries.forEach(i => {
if (i === "US") test = true;
});
return test;
});
On November 13th, I got a call from a customer reporting that the YouTube player didn't work anymore. After a quick look in the dev tool, I found that there was an error:
Uncaught TypeError: a.getVideoData is not a function
Looking into what the player object was containing, I learned that there's no function getVideoData anymore.
The function getVideoData provided a way to get the video title. Now, how can I get the title?
Is there any article from Google about this change?
To get a video's title, you can query the YouTube Data API v3:
GET https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/videos
?part=snippet
&id=VIDEO_ID
&key=YOUR_API_KEY
For that you need to sign up on the Google Cloud Console and create an API key (it's free). You can restrict the API key to only be used from your website, that way you can safely make it public in your JS source code/html code without others being able to make queries on your behalf. Make sure to enable the YouTube Data API v3 in the console as well, otherwise your queries will return errors.
The above query will return a JSON representation of the information on the video that you are interested in (the snippet part). Say you parse the JSON into an object called result. Then you can get the video title via
result.items[0].snippet.title
getVideoData() seems to be back (Dec, 2017). So, try again !
As of today (October 1st, 2020), I am retrieving the title of the video from within YouTube's API object:
// Assigning YouTube's ID to your ID variable
const playerID = "xxxxxxx";
// Creating an object for the video using YouTube's API.
const yPlayer = new YT.Player(playerID, {
events: {
'onReady': onPlayerReady(),
'onStateChange': onPlayerStateChange()
}
});
function onPlayerReady() {
}
function onPlayerStateChange() {
// Title retrieved here
let videoTitle = yPlayer.j.videoData.title;
}
onYouTubeIframeAPIReady();
i am trying with youtube api v3 php search...
first time i'm using this api for this i am beginner...
i have 3 question;
1) how can below search list showing pagination numbers? (per page 50 result)
2) how can video duration show in list? (3:20 min:second)
3) how can order viewCount
if ($_GET['q']) {
require_once 'src/Google_Client.php';
require_once 'src/contrib/Google_YoutubeService.php';
$DEVELOPER_KEY = 'my key';
$client = new Google_Client();
$client->setDeveloperKey($DEVELOPER_KEY);
$youtube = new Google_YoutubeService($client);
try {
$searchResponse = $youtube->search->listSearch('id,snippet', array(
'q' => $_GET['q'],
'maxResults' => 50,
'type' => "video",
));
foreach ($searchResponse['items'] as $searchResult) {
$videos .= '<li style="clear:left"><img src="'.$searchResult['snippet']['thumbnails']['default']['url'].'" style="float:left; margin-right:18px" alt="" /><span style="float:left">'.$searchResult['snippet']['title'].'<br />'.$searchResult['id']['videoId'].'<br />'.$searchResult['snippet']['publishedAt'].'<br />'.$item['contentDetails']['duration'].'</span></li>';
}
$htmlBody .= <<<END
<ul>$videos</ul>
END;
} catch (Google_ServiceException $e) {
$htmlBody .= sprintf('<p>A service error occurred: <code>%s</code></p>',
htmlspecialchars($e->getMessage()));
} catch (Google_Exception $e) {
$htmlBody .= sprintf('<p>An client error occurred: <code>%s</code></p>',
htmlspecialchars($e->getMessage()));
}
}
1) how can below search list showing pagination numbers? (per page 50 result)
You need to write your own cacheing logic to implement this feature because with every result you get two tokens "NextPageToken" and "PreviousPageToken" and subsequent query must contain that token number to get next page or previous page token like below.
So whenever results are not available at cache then you should send either nextpagetoken or previous page token.
https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search?key=API_KEY&part=snippet&q=japan&maxResults=10&order=date&pageToken=NEXT_or_PREVIOUS_PAGE_TOKEN
In particular your case where you need 50 pages per page and you are showing 3 pagination like (1,2,NEXT) then you need to fetch results two times. Both the results you will keep in cache so for page 1 and 2 results will be retrieved from cache. For next you make it sure that you are making query google again by sending nextPageToken.
Thus to show pagination 1-n and every page 50 results then you need to make n-1 queries to google api. But if you are showing 10 results per page then you cane make single query of 50 results using which you can show first 5 pages (1-5) with the help of retrieved results and at next you should again send next page token like above.
NOTE- Google youtube api provide 50 results max.
2) how can video duration show in list? (3:20 min:second)
Youtube API v3 do not return video duration at simple first search response. To get video duration we need to make one extra call to youtube api like below.
https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/videos?id=VIDEO_ID1%2CVIDEO_ID2&part=contentDetails&key=API_KEY (max 50 IDs)
This issue is highlighted in "http://code.google.com/p/gdata-issues/issues/detail?id=4294".I posted my answer here too.
Hence if we want to display video duration then we need to make two calls every time.
3) how can order viewCount
Trigger below query it will provide results ordered by view count.
https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search?key=KEY&part=snippet&q=japan&maxResults=5&order=viewCount
For detail please refer this - https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/search/list#order
The youTube API V3 is somehow complicated compare to API V2.
To the question above, my approach is not for search result rather is to retrieve user uploaded videos. I believe this can be useful
References
The way you create pagination in v3 is not the same as in v2 where you can make your call simply like
$youtube = "http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/Qtube247/uploads?v=2&alt=jsonc&start-index=1&max-results=50";
In v3 you need to make two or three calls the first one will be to get the channel detail and second call will be to retrieve playlist from where we will get the channel playlist Id and finally retrieve individual video data.
I am using Php CURL
$youtube = “https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/channels?part=snippet%2CcontentDetails%2Cstatistics&id=yourChannelIdgoeshere&key=yourApiKey”;
Here we retrieve user playlist ID
$result = json_decode($return, true);
$playlistId=$result['items'][0]['contentDetails']['relatedPlaylists']['uploads'];
we define pagetoken
$pageToken=’’;
Each time user click control button we retrieve pagetoken from session[] and feed the curl url, and in turn will produce nextpagetoken or prevpagetoken. Whatever you feed the url the Api know what set of list to populate.
if(isset($_REQUEST['ptk']) && $_REQUEST['ptk’]!==''){
$pageToken=$_REQUEST['ptk’];
}
Here we retrieve user playlist
$ playlistItems =”https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/playlistItems?part=snippet&pageToken=”.$pageToken.”&maxResults=50&playlistId=$playlistId&key= yourApiKey”;
If user has more than maxResult, we should have nextPageToken, take for an example user has 200 uploaded videos,the first pagetoken may be CDIQAA and next pagetoken may be CGQQAA while previous may be CDIQAQ , something like that so is not a number.
Here we save the pagetoken
if(isset($result['nextPageToken'])) { $_SESSION[nextToken]=$result['nextPageToken'];
}
if(isset($result['prevPageToken'])) { $_SESSION[prevToken]=$result['prevPageToken'];
}
we can then create our control button <>
$next=$_SESSION[nextToken];
$prev=$_SESSION[prevToken];
The control button here
<a href=”?ptk=<?php echo $prev?>” ><<prev</a>
<a href=”?ptk=<?php echo $next?>” >next>></a>
From here when user click link it set either next or prev page in session variable (go to up to see how this work)
To get video duration we use same Php curl
$videoDetails="https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/videos?part=id,snippet,contentDetails,statistics,status&id=videoIdHere&key=yourApiKey";
$videoData = json_decode($return, true);
$duration = $videoData['items'][0]['contentDetails']['duration'];
$viewCount = $videoData['items'][0]['statistics']['viewCount'];
you may get something like this ('PT2H34M25S')
I have answer a question Here which show you how to convert the duration data
See Working Demo Here
I'm transferring my iOS code from YouTube Data API v2 to v3.
I would like to retrieve the number of items in a playlist with YouTube API v3.
With the data API v2, I could call a search query, resulting in a list of playlist items with the property "size", which represented the size of the playlist, see:
https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/playlists/snippets?q=GoogleDevelopers&max-results=10&v=2&alt=jsonc
With API v3, I haven't found a way to achieve this. I tried queries, like below, not resulting in the desired output.
https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/playlists?part=snippet&id=RD0KSOMA3QBU0&key={YOUR_API_KEY}
The only way to get the number of items is running a query for each playlist, retrieving the full playlist items. This is an overkill, however, and results in a too high API usage.
https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/playlistItems?part=snippet&playlistId=RD0KSOMA3QBU0&key={YOUR_API_KEY}
Any help appreciated!
Thanks
thanks for that. It helped me to find a solution, which is now to call
https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/playlists?part=contentDetails&id={Comma Separated ID's}&key={YOUR_API_KEY}
an use the option to make a comma separate lists of the playlists to evaluate. In the return string, I grab the "itemCount" parameter for each playlist.
Thanks
Unfortunately, there is no way to get number of items in a playlist without requesting contentDetails in the parts (which isn't supported when listing playlists).
I have use the following V3 api to get the playlist videos, and its works for me.
https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/playlistItems?part=contentDetails&maxResults=50&playlistId=PLFPg_IUxqnZM3uua-YwStHJ1qmlQKBnh0&key={YOUR_API_KEY_HERE}
**
playlistId
**
There is no details available for "playlistId" parameter in Youtube Documentation.
but is works for getting playlist videos.
This javascript will retrieve the number 91.
That is the total number of clips (total = data.pageInfo.totalResults)
from the youtube playlist
<script>
function numberOfClips(pid){
$.get(
"https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/playlistItems",{
part : 'snippet',
maxResults : 2,
playlistId : pid,
key: 'YOUR API v.3 KEY',
fields: 'pageInfo(totalResults)'
},
function(data) {
total = data.pageInfo.totalResults;
$('#total').html('Total number of clips: ' + total);
st = JSON.stringify(data,'',2);
$('#area1').val(st);
});
}
</script>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
<body onload="numberOfClips('PLE9F62B21C75C054C')">
<p id="total"></p>
<textarea id='area1' style='width:400px;height:100px;'></textarea>
PLE9F62B21C75C054C
I would not recommend to rely on neither itemsCount in Playlist-Query nor pageInfo.totalResults in Playlistitems-Query, because both values may differ from the size of the retrieved list of playlist-items
see also: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37899490/totalresults-in-playlistitems-do-not-match-items-size
I want to get the total amount of views (all videos) from a channel on youtube using the Youtube API in PHP. I didn't found any method to do that. Does anyone have en idea ? Thanks in advance for your help.
You can use the new YouTube Analytics API
https://developers.google.com/youtube/analytics/v1/available_reports
you can modify the code of the sample application to call the api in the client side:
https://developers.google.com/youtube/analytics/v1/sample-application
and do something like this to get the number of views per day:
var request = gapi.client.youtubeAnalytics.reports.query({
// Convert dates to YYYY-MM-DD strings for start-date and end-date parameters.
'start-date': formatDateString(lastWeek),
'end-date': formatDateString(today),
// Identify channel for which you're retrieving data.
ids: 'channel==' + channelId,
dimensions: 'day',
metrics: 'views'
});
This is the code (don't forget to rename yourUserName with your YouTube username):
$xdoc = new DomDocument;
$xdoc->Load('http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/yourUserName');
$ytstat = $xdoc->getElementsByTagName('statistics')->item(0);
$total_views = $ytstat->getAttribute(totalUploadViews);
echo $total_views;