I want to search for keyword related youtube videos, I'm using youtube getdata API.
Reading documentation I came up with this:
http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/-/". urlencode($kwd) ."?orderby=viewCount&max-results=". $max ."&alt=json
But this is not a real search, it gives urls taged with keyword... Youtubes internal search works quite differently I imagine, because comparing results don't match at all.
Any ideas?
The URL you offer does a search for any videos in a category where the category includes your keyword. What you want to do instead is to send a query string:
"https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos?q=". urlencode($kwd) ."&orderby=viewCount&max-results=". $max ."&alt=json"
This way the feed will match right on the videos rather than the categories.
In the newer v3 of the API, your call would look like:
"https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search?part=snippet&q=".urlencode($kwd)."&maxResults=".$max."&order=viewCount&key={YOUR_API_KEY}"
Use Data API v3, search->list method.
GET https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search?part=snippet&q=term&key={YOUR_API_KEY}
In my opinion, I would use the "q" parameter, for example to search for "dog"
var request = gapi.client.youtube.search.list({
part: 'snippet',
q: "dog"
});
But I'm just a noob the others guys answers are probably better.
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I currently use something like https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search?part=id&order=date&channelId=CHANNELID&maxResults=1&type=video&key=KEY and I want to be able to retrieve only the latest video and to totally exclude shorts.
How can I achieve this? 🤔
The Youtube search method
Will allow you to search for things like keyword, location, events, your own videos and related videos.
There is no way to filter or limit videos returned. Your only hope would be to sort them out locally when you get the results.
You may want to add a feature request here there is this one but it's really old Search API: More flexible/logical videoDuration requests
(sorry its my 1st time answering at stackoverflow, so might not be descriptive)
if you you use youtube serch method
then you'll realise that shorts description are assigned as empty string "" where as the videos have some description . so with an if condition like below can slove your problem (js)
if(!(video.snippet.description == ""))
So I am playing around with the YouTube API v3 for a web app I am building. I've got the basics down, but I am searching through documentation trying to find a way to filter a returned video list based on a channelID. However this doesn't seem to be possible. Is there way to write a request similar to this pseudocode below:
https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/videos?part=snippet&
// and a second value that would imply with channelID=UCn8zNIfYAQNdrFRrr8oibKw
This seems like a logical function to have in the API. However, I can't seem to find any name/value pair in the documentation to support this theory.
The closest I can seem to find is the onBehalfOfContentOwner name/value pair for the video.list request (but it requires me to be the uploader of the video?) as outlined here
Anyways if someone can answer definitively if this is possible (if yes a link to docs or example I can use) as I've poured over docs looking for this functionality with no luck.
Any help would be much appreciated!
Your link refers to a video search.
1) First, you need to retrieve the channel info for the channelID (e.g. UCn8zNIfYAQNdrFRrr8oibKw).
See: https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/channels
Get the part:
"contentDetails": {
"relatedPlaylists": {
"likes": string,
"favorites": string,
"uploads": string,
"watchHistory": string,
"watchLater": string
}
2) Then use the "uploads": string, to retrieve the videos, being the user uploaded videos, which is a playlist.
For retrieving playlists see: https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/playlists .
Use the api call search.list, for example:
GET https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search?channelId=ASADKAHWSDA&type=video&key={YOUR_API_KEY}
in the query parameters specified the resource type = video because you want the videos of this channel. As cited here https://developers.google.com/apis-explorer/#p/youtube/v3/youtube.channels.list
The type parameter restricts a search query to only retrieve a particular type of resource. The value is a comma-separated list of resource types. (string)
The resource can be anything a video, playlist, subscriber, etc. Hope this help.
I'm trying to use the YouTube API to return videos that were recently published, but the filter I'm using doesn't seem to work as expected.
This API call only returns two videos whereas there should be tons more that were published after March 1st:
https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos?q=&fields=entry[xs:dateTime(published)%20%3E%20xs:dateTime('2013-03-01T12:00:00.000Z')]
However, if I add a query string, then many more results are returned. For example:
https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos?q=surfing&fields=entry[xs:dateTime(published)%20%3E%20xs:dateTime('2013-03-01T12:00:00.000Z')]
Anyone know why? Is there another approach I should be using to just get me the latest videos published regardless of query string?
I understand your confusion, but that's not what the fields= parameter is used for. The documentation should hopefully clear things up, but to summarize, using fields= in that manner is equivalent to making a request without the fields= parameter and then filtering the results of that request so that it only includes the entries that match your filter.
So if your request without fields= would normally return 25 specific videos, adding fields= to it will give you a response that includes somewhere between 0 and 25 videos—all the non-matching videos are filtered out.
You can request a feed of recently published videos without any other filters using http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos?v=2&orderby=published
I am using following rss feed to get videos from youtube. works fine.
http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/zeetv/uploads?alt=rss&v=2&orderby=published&client=ytapi-youtube-profile;
now i like to apply certain filter... for example: listing videos which has "Episode" in title.
http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/zeetv/uploads?alt=rss&v=2&orderby=published&client=ytapi-youtube-profile&q=Episode;
But it doesnot filter out the videos,which matches "episode", instead it list all.
i had checked this link https://developers.google.com/youtube/2.0/developers_guide_protocol_api_query_parameters
and applied query string.
anyhelp is much appreciated. Thanks
It seems like you can't query a users videos, like that.
You have to build your query like this: http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/zeetv/uploads?q=Episode&fields=entry(title)
you can read more about the fields syntax here: https://developers.google.com/youtube/2.0/developers_guide_protocol_partial#Fields_Formatting_Rules
The link provided in the question now has the answer. You should perform a search for the term you want and filter by author:
https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos?q=episode&author=zeetv
How would I go about displaying tweets that contain a certain hashtag using the Twitter API? Thanks
I'd also like to know if there is a way to get all tweets from a certain hashtag in a separate file, also the ones that don't show up in your feed anymore. I suppose that's what the earlier question was about, too.
This answer was written in 2010. The API it uses has since been retired. It is kept for historical interest only.
Search for it.
Make sure include_entities is set to true to get hashtag results. See Tweet Entities
Returns 5 mixed results with Twitter.com user IDs plus entities for the term "blue angels":
GET http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=blue%20angels&rpp=5&include_entities=true&with_twitter_user_id=true&result_type=mixed
UPDATE for v1.1:
Rather than giving q="search_string" give it q="hashtag" in URL encoded form to return results with HASHTAG ONLY. So your query would become:
GET https://api.twitter.com/1.1/search/tweets.json?q=%23freebandnames
%23 is URL encoded form of #. Try the link out in your browser and it should work.
You can optimize the query by adding since_id and max_id parameters detailed here. Hope this helps !
Note: Search API is now a OAUTH authenticated call, so please include your access_tokens to the above call
Updated
Twitter Search doc link:
https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/tweets/search/api-reference/get-search-tweets.html
The answer here worked better for me as it isolates the search on the hashtag, not just returning results that contain the search string. In the answer above you would still need to parse the JSON response to see if the entities.hashtags array is not empty.