Since Google has deprecated the YouTube v2 API, I cannot find a way to get all the comments from a video.
Is it possible to use a single, non-deprecated API (Google+, YT v3) to do that?
I am not concerned about maintaining threading.
Believe me it works
https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/commentThreads?key=******************&textFormat=plainText&part=snippet&videoId=kffacxfA7G4&maxResults=50
Key will be provided by the google developer console and 50 denotes 50 comments in form of a json, video id is the id of the video. For any type of queries comment below.
You can get only 100 at most at a time with the comments API. But you get a nextPageToken from the comment api response. Pass &pageToken={nextPageToken} to next api call, until the nextPageToken is undefined. Then you can get all comments if you like.
https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/commentThreads?key={your_api_key}&textFormat=plainText&part=snippet&videoId={video_id}&maxResults=100&pageToken={nextPageToken}
Apparently it is now possible to fetch comment threads.
(old answer)
Currently that's impossible with a first-party tool.
Source:
While v3 offers the majority of v2 functionality, there are currently
a couple of tasks that can only be done with the older API.
Specifically, applications that manage captions or that work with
video comments still need to use the v2 API until modern equivalents
are available. Our goal is to provide similar functionality well
before the April 2015 shut-off date—please subscribe to this blog, the
YouTube Data API v3 revision history page, or follow +YouTubeDev on
Google+ to keep up-to-date. -
http://apiblog.youtube.com/2014/03/committing-to-youtube-data-api-v3.html
TubeKit (YouTube crawling toolkit) might be of help to some.
You can fetch all the comments using https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/commentThreads
The Youtube API v3.0 allows you the following parameters.
textFormat - This parameter indicates whether the API should return comments formatted as HTML or as plain text. The default value is html.
videoId - The Youtube Video ID you want to fetch comments for ( if you dont know your Youtube Video ID, you can get one from Youtube Video ID Finder )
maxResults - The maxResults parameter specifies the maximum number of items that should be returned in the result set.
pageToken - The pageToken parameter identifies a specific page in the result set that should be returned. In an API response, the nextPageToken property identifies the next page of the result that can be retrieved.
$.ajax({
dataType: "jsonp",
type: 'GET',
url: "https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/commentThreads?key=PUT-YOUR-KEYXXXXXXX&textFormat=plainText&part=snippet&videoId=PUT-YOUR-VIDEO-ID",
success: function(result){
data = result;
$('.data').text(data);
console.log(data);
}});
To find PUT-YOUR-KEY(API key) ---> https://console.developers.google.com/apis/credentials then click on blue color button select API key option you can get
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I'm trying to get channels info with ChannelsList. This endpoint has a parameter the name is: forUsername but it does not work for this page: https://www.youtube.com/c/FolkartTr
This is my query and it returns empty data:
Somehow, I got this channelID in the page source and its: "channelId":"[UCnS--2e1yzQCm5r4ClrMJBg]".
When I try to query with this ID it's okay and returns with correct data.
and this is its payload: http://jsonblob.com/941253671862419456
How will I be able to reach this channel info using a username? I got a few links with usernames and I want to get their info with their username. I don't have any chance to get their channelID's for all.
Thanks for your help.
If I understood correctly, your problem is that you can't do anything from such a username with the Channels: list of the YouTube Data API v3. If you're just looking for the channel id linked to this username then because as YouTube Data API v3 doesn't work for this, I would recommend you to use my open-source YouTube operational API, indeed by requesting https://yt.lemnoslife.com/channels?part=snippet&forUsername=FolkartTr you'll receive a JSON with id equals to the channel id linked to the provided forUsername value.
If you have any question don't hesitate to comment or come to the Discord support.
Notice that the channel title and the channel customUrl might be different.
In your example - http://jsonblob.com/941253671862419456 -, the channel title is Folkart, but its customUrl - which is the value you get when view on YouTube - is: folkarttr.
Note the difference in both case-sensitive and additional letters.
For these reasons, you should not based your channel search by name, but, rather, by its channel_id.
If you really need to search by userName, the answer from Benjamin Loison can solve your requirement.
See if you can find a ticket on Issue Tracker or post your issue there too. Then, you might get some official answer.
I have two "Live streaming/live broadcast saved playlists" in following youtube channel --> https://www.youtube.com/user/swaminarayanlive.
I am trying to retrieve all the "live streaming / live broadcast playlists" of a channel using new youtube v3 api by using the below link-->
https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/playlists?part=snippet&channelId=UCBkNpeyvBO2TdPGVC_PsPUA&key={YOUR_API_KEY}
here i can get the info of playlists which are not live streams or live broadcast. and not able to get the same for the live one.
Please help me how can i get that for live one using youtube v3 api
I was researching another issue with the API when finding this, and when I saw that this was never resolved, I decided to look into it. It turns out that this is related to that other issue.
The YouTube API v3 lacks support for saved playlists. The channel swaminarayanlive did not create the playlists, only saved them from the channel BhujMandir.
The workaround in your case would be to retrieve the playlists of BhujMandir and extract the response snippets with "title" parameters containing the word "Live".
You would need to go through the pages and search each one for this, since there is a limit to how many results an API response can show at once. Currently it's 50.
So, you would use the following to get the first page of playlistItems:
GET https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/playlists?part=snippet&channelId=UCVItNtUctAknegvmYcMhUQg&maxResults=50&key={YOUR_API_KEY}
This will return an API response containing the properties "kind" (which will have the value "youtube#playlistListResponse") and "etag". If there are more than 50 results, there will also be a "nextPageToken" property. (On a page that is not the first, there would also be a "prevPageToken" property.)
After these properties, there are two blocks. One called "pageInfo", containing info about how many results (playlists) there are and how many are shown per page, and one block called "items", containing the resulting playlistItems.
You would look through the items block for any playlistItem with a title property (which is a string) containing the substring "Live" and get the id properties of those. You would then look on the next page by using the nextPageToken's value in a new HTTP request, like so:
GET https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/playlists?part=snippet&channelId=UCVItNtUctAknegvmYcMhUQg&maxResults=50&pageToken=[nextPageToken_value_here]&key={YOUR_API_KEY}
As of now, the two playlists you're looking for are on the pages with tokens CJYBEAA and CMgBEAA.
I think that where is the {YOUR_API_KEY} you should change this code and insert the name of your application program interface
I am not able to get yt:statistics and corresponding view count using youtube v2 api
Search URI:
http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/-/park/competition?orderby=viewCount&max-results=50&v=2&format=5&fields=entry(title,content,media:group,yt:statistics,yt:rating,gd:rating)
When I print the feed and look for statistics, I can not found it. I believe I was able to get it until last week.
I use PYTHON gdata lib to send/receive requests. It looks like for some feeds I am getting statistics. Does it not come for every feed??
Any pointers??
UPDATE: Similar observations for yt:rating.
Is there a minimum guarantee that yy api provides for statistics/rating?
Without a minimum guarantee, does it not become un-reliable?
Have you tried using the YouTube-Analytics API?
Not sure what the equivalent call in the Python library would be - but for example, this url will get the top viewed videos:
https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/analytics/v1/reports
?metrics=views
&dimensions=video
&max-results=10
&sort=-views
&start-index=1
&start-date={first date of interest}
&enddate={last date of interest}
&ids={your channel id}
You should be able to use the same OAuth token that you're using for the YouTube Data API v2.
When I make an authorized call for Youtube videos, I get all the tags/keywords in the feed.
http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/default/uploads?alt=jsonc&v=2
However, if I want to filter this result by a single keyword/category, the tags are not returned by the API. Example, I want to reduce the number of videos in the feed by tag "English"/"French".
http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/default/uploads/-/English?alt=jsonc&v=2
Is this expected behavior or a bug?
It's expected behavior; this blog post explains how your second request is going against the search index, which will never return keywords/tags in the response.
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