I've combed the youtube api documentation but still cannot find the answer to my question. I'm wondering whether there's a field/ or method in the youtube api, that will allow me to find out whether a specific video has an advertisement (or what type of advertisement) on it?
Any help is appreciated. Thanks!
In video resource, there's an item called "contentDetails.licensedContent", where you can find if the video is claimed by content owners (YouTube Partners), and that is one of the condition if ads will show up.
Important thing is that the type of ads would be determined on "runtime" and we can't get them through API beforehand.
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I am a teacher and I have a YouTube channel with videos for my students. Every time one of my students see a video, I would love to know how he interacted with it: where he has paused it , where he has rewinded it, etc. This would help me in knowing the parts of the video that are difficult to understand.
My question is: is it possible to get all this data from a user's session? Specifically, can I get these detailed raw data from YouTube APIs?
From what I have explored so far, it seems that it is not possible, as YouTube APIs only seem to send "aggregated" data (example: total number of views of a video) or "properties" (example: title of the video).
I would really just need a Yes/No answer to my question, just to know if I am not waisting my time in exploring the APIs as a solution to my problem.
Thank you.
Yes and no,
But here is a more detailed explanation.
The YouTube Analytics api will give you analytics data on your own YouTube channel, but it wont be user specific you cant track who exactly did something. You may however be able to get some basic information about each video and what was clicked and how much was viewed. video reports But its not going to be user specific you wont know what Mike did as opposed to what Jane did.
The YouTube Data api will allow you to manage your own YouTube Channel for example upload videos and see subscriptions. It will also let you search for public videos on YouTube.
If you do want user specific then What you are looking for is session data related to user activity. Something like this is not publicly available. Google couldn't share your students activity without the students permission due to GDPR not to mention the fact that tracking anyone under the age of 13 would also be against some GDPR laws if i remember correctly.
Even Google analytics doesn't offer websites a decent way of tracking individual users activity on their websites. You can do it but you have to add additional tracking data to your website, and notify users that you are doing it.
SO your answer is yes kind of
Here is a link to video which does not work
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abEOkul6HEx
How I can programatically detect this ?
The scenario would be to monitor a list of youtube videos and detect if a single video was deleted or is no longer available
Any ideas ?
You can use following youtube v3 API GET request
https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/videos?part=id&id={VIDEO_ID}&key={YOUR_API_KEY}
In the results check for pageInfo.totalResults attribute
Update
If you want to pass multiple video ids in one API, it also can. id={VIDEO_ID1},{VIDEO_ID2}. In this case you can't depend on pageInfo.totalResults you have to go through items[].id decide.
I am trying to add some youtube videos from my Admin page to database. So that mobile application can make use of them to play.
I want to filter the result from YouTube API link so that i can make sure that whatever videos i add to the database will be able to play on mobile devices like IOS and Android.
I tried
&format=5 and &format=1
but no use.
I also went through Youtube API v2.0 Docs but unable to find the correct way to assign fields parameter to my query string
can anyone guide me to fix this?
What you need is videoEmbeddable and videoSyndicated.
Here's my answer to original question: retrive only mobile-supported video from YouTube API
Basically, what I want to get is Youtube's Trending Music in UK. I want to get the videos that are recently uploaded and is trending starting with few views.
Example:
http://www.youtube.com/channel/HCp-Rdqh3z4Uc/videos?query=NErAuLQauvw&view=22&feature=g-logo
I am confused which one of the feeds below is more applicable to me.
https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/channelstandardfeeds/most_viewed?time=today&v=2
https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/standardfeeds/UK/on_the_web_Music
Please help me with this. Your answer and ideas will be greatly appreciated. Thanks
Youtube channels usually start with the prefix UC. In this case the channel starts with HC what for as for I know means hidden channel. This means that you can only access them via the api if you have the right credentials.
This channels are maintained by youtube and they do not share that info for third party apps.
So if you want to rip it you will have to make a own webservice that searches the youtube site and stores the video id's or build an html parser or something like that in your application.
based on http://youtubecreator.blogspot.com/2012/08/tags-removed-from-video-watch-pages.html, youtube has made media:keywords element empty in youtube api as well.
However, it is important for my application to scan through the tags/keywords. Is there an alternate solution for me to get the tags/keywords for a video?
This blog post gives information relevant to developers: http://apiblog.youtube.com/2012/08/video-tags-just-for-uploaders.html
You can get the tags if you're authenticated as the owner of the video. Otherwise, no, it's not currently possible.