So after scouring the youtube API, and thinking that this may not be possible, I'll give a last try here.
In a nutshell, I am trying to obtain analytical data from youtube's analytics's API for specific videos for a date range (by day if possible). I've found ways to get the channel data that the video reside in, but I have been unable to find how to ontain the specific video data itself. Assuming it exists in v3 that is.
Anyone had any luck with this kind of task at all? Has this feature been developed for v3 as of yet?
Channel Reports is the API to retrieve video metrics. It can filter by video, by country, by lead (for some fields) and accepts timespan and data aggregation granularity. In brief, Available Reports lists all the valid query parameter combinations.
Individual comments can be retrieved with v2 Data API - together with their dates.
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I am trying to collect a large list of YouTube's most watched videos for a data science application. I tried to use the YouTube Data API with the following query:
https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search&order=viewCount&type=video®ionCode=US&key=API_KEY,
but it does not seem to give me the same video ideas as in this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-viewed_YouTube_videos
Could someone tell me how I should do it?
Using the Search.list API endpoint is one way to search for the most viewed videos pertaining to a given region.
There's another endpoint -- Videos.list -- that, when queried with chart set to mostPopular, gives back:
chart (string)
The chart parameter identifies the chart that you want to retrieve.
Acceptable values are:
mostPopular – Return the most popular videos for the specified content region and video category.
As per the specification of videoCategoryId:
By default, charts are not restricted to a particular category.
Therefore, you may safely invoke Videos.list with chart=mostPopular and regionCode=US, without passing to it any videoCategoryId.
These two are the only API means that accomplish the task described by your post.
I'm working on a application which would gather YouTube user's video data and create some meaningful data and metrics to help the creators market their videos better and expand their audience.
The problem is that since December 18, if I'm not wrong, this kind of practice is forbidden.
Can someone from Google comment and explain this change? Why can't I create metrics based on YouTube data, even if I visibly communicate that this is not data from YouTube?
For example: I would like to fetch users video description and tell what's the keyword density, how well is it prepared for SEO (in % or something).
And I guess that this new term destroys many businesses which are doing exactly that thing, creating meaningful data based on YouTube API. (Tubular, TubeBuddy, VidIQ).
Please! Anyone?
It seems that the YouTube API doesn't give updated results for mostPopular videos in my country since few days.
Example:
This request (https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/videos?part=snippet,contentDetails&chart=mostpopular®ionCode=FR) doesn't give me the same videos results than the ones displayed directly on YouTube for the French most popular channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmzy72gDEpfXoFV9Xdtd0DQ). It seems that the results of this request is not updated since the 1th of february. Results was real time updated before this.
Does someone know if something is wrong with my API request, or if there are some issues with the YouTube API at this moment?
There is nothing wrong with your request. This is a known issue with the YouTube API reported here for Saudi Arabia (but also applicable to multiple regions), and another related issue here with regard to content from France.
Your best bet would be to follow up with the YouTube team on one of those defects, or potentially (and dangerously) scrape the YouTube site for the correct results.
Problem seems to be solved since 13th of february (maybe someone from Google have seen my post..)
YouTube Channels and chart=mostPopular parameter data are separate data entities, aka you will get different results. They may be related but there is no guarantee you will get the same data. To get the data that you want you may need to query for channel itself and its videos.
I got this information from the thread #Jal linked, there was an update by matthewc...#google.com a few days ago:
The most popular channel for Saudia
Arabia and
the mostPopular chart parameter in the video.list
call
are separate and distinct entities. If you'd like to get the content
of the most popular channel for Saudia
Arabia
please use the Data API video.list call to list the videos with the
channel ID (in this case "UCWY-_j1MCth6yf24m58Bh_Q") by setting the
items/snippet/channelId parameter.
My current concern right now is that there is supposedly a way to get video information from the videos.list endpoint using a channelId, which does not seem the case in the API Explorer. I will update my answer once I figure out what this person meant exactly.
Looking at the YouTube API v3 Search documentation, it states that the order parameter is used to control ordering of API response resource results. However, when attempting to order by date, I'm not receiving the results in reverse chronological order as specified. In fact, they are not in any order whatsoever.
API Request with order date using API Explorer UI:
Is there some other way I should be requesting for results to be ordered by the time they were published on YouTube? Is there a bug in the handling of the order API parameter?
There's no bug; the 'order' parameter will sort results based on when the resources were created, This value may be slightly different than when a video is published, as a resource is created when an upload begins but a video is published when the upload finishes and is processed.
In this case, it looks like the 10 or so most recent videos were all uploaded at the exact same time (YouTube.com has a batch uploader), so you're getting the order they were created in, even though the published dates reflect minor differences (maybe a couple took a bit longer to upload or something). IF you scan the full list of results, though, you'll see they play out just fine in terms of their reverse chronological order. And generally you probably won't have so many videos that were batch uploaded like this.
When querying the YouTube Analytics API for demographics for a channel for a 1 day range (metric:viewerPercentage, dimensions:ageGroup,gender) in some cases no rows are returned. The api IS returning views for that day however.
2 reasons for this come to mind:
1. The data is not available yet because it is still being processed.
2. There is no known demographics for that (i.e. the gender and age of the user are not known)?
Am I safe to assume it's not (1) in this case because a query for views did return results? If I can't assume on then is it true that there's no difference in the response/results between "not processed" and "processed but all users are of unknown demographics?"
In other words if, when (2) were the case, the API would return a row with all zero's 0 for each demographic, that would enable us to interpret things correctly (but I'm pretty sure that's not how API queries with a dimension work).
Thanks for any guidance!
I can't provide any hard-and-fast guidance about the YouTube Analytics data processing pipeline, i.e. whether the demographic data will always be available at exactly the same time that the view count data is available in a report.
To get a more authoritative answer about this sort of specific question, I'd recommend going to the YouTube Analytics web interface (http://youtube.com/analytics) and try running an identical report from there. The web interface normally gives you some warning if you're requesting a report that relies on data that isn't yet available.