I am using YouTube's new "Subscription Collection" feature: it works great and is exactly what I'm looking for: the complete list of videos for a subset of my subscriptions.
Now I would like to get this list of videos through the API.
To be clear: I do NOT want the list of subscriptions. I want the videos in those subscriptions.
For example, this is the HTML page with the list of videos. It is public, so anyone can access them.
Normally the URLs for getting via a video list through the API look like this.
I've tried different ways of replacing "favorites" or "top_rated" with my collection id, but couldn't get any to work.
You need to get the Channel ID for the subscription/channel your interested in getting.
Then if your using Version 3 of the API you can use 'youtube.search.list' with the following parameters
part: snippet
channelId: [Channel your interested in]
type:video
This will get you the videos in that channel. If your using V2 I think you can use the users feed
http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/{userName/ChannelID}/uploads
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I am using the YouTube API to get the activities of the authenticated user e.g. like, subscription, etc. The API should only return my the items with snippet.type=upload
This is my request call in python:
request = youtube.activities().list(
part="snippet,contentDetails",
# channelId=channelId,
mine=True,
maxResults=25
)
Here is the link to the API: https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/activities/list
Like you mentioned, (once again) YouTube Data API v3 doesn't work as expected by the documentation.
I think the best way to go is parsing webpages (when logged) like these ones:
Likes: https://myactivity.google.com/page?page=youtube_likes
Subscriptions: https://myactivity.google.com/page?page=youtube_subscriptions
This webpage describes a few webpages like above: https://myactivity.google.com/more-activity
If you go this way, don't hesitate to share your parsing code with others for instance on this repository.
Does anyone know how this website is able to get historical views data for YouTube playlists?
From my research, YouTube API doesn't even let you get the current playlist views (I might be wrong).
I am talking about the playlist views, not the views from videos that were added to the playlist (you can see the view count here for example, on the left side - on desktop).
How can we get access to this type of data?
One more time YouTube Data API v3 doesn't provide a basic feature.
I would recommend you to use my open-source YouTube operational API. Indeed by requesting the JSON document https://yt.lemnoslife.com/playlists?part=statistics&id=PLAYLIST_ID containing item["statistics"]["viewCount"] integer, your problem is solved.
You can request up to maxResults (currently 50) playlists separating playlist ids by a comma in id, example: https://yt.lemnoslife.com/playlists?part=statistics&id=PLAYLIST_ID_0,PLAYLIST_ID_1,...,PLAYLIST_ID_49
You can also request the title of the playlist by adding snippet to part, example: https://yt.lemnoslife.com/playlists?part=snippet,statistics&id=PLAYLIST_ID
I'm trying to add videos to an existing ASP.NET MVC site, and I'd like to show videos from our YouTube channel.
I have added a tag to each video to indicate what page it should appear on. I had thought that I could search our channel by tag on each page to render the relevant video on that page.
I'm trying to exclusively use the API v3, but it seems I can't do this.
I can't use developer tags, because videos are uploaded by multiple users using the standard YouTube front end. This seems like basic functionality, so I'm assuming it's my inexperience with this API.
As an example, our YouTube channel is ChillinWithCharlie. During development, one video is tagged 20141213Cheneys.
I can get all videos in our channel, but is there a way to query the v3 API to retrieve just this video?
I've seen one suggestion here that I retrieve all videos, and filter in code. This feels inefficient, so I'd rather not do this, but I can't even see where the tag is returned with all channel videos, that I could interrogate in code.
It's not just you. There seems to be no specific query parameter to search by tag with API v3.
I would recommend doing a search with your tag in the 'q' (search) parameter, then checking the results to see if the tag exists in the returned snippet->tags property to verify the exact video.
Note YouTube tags are only visible to the video's uploader.
https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/videos#snippet.tags[]
I'm looking to programmatically discover the YouTube Preferred channels (Examples: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiq_aAkP44mMpRx8VvQiF6w/channels?shelf_id=5204494150831773367&view=49 and https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpXBkrx5YWAe8I9nbmLK_fA/channels?) but the channel pages with their AJAX lists is all I've found. Obviously it would be much easier to crawl an API or an RSS feed (or even a static HTML page!) and I've yet to find anything like that with each of the YouTube Preferred channel ids.
Am I missing something? Do these preferred channel lists really only exist in this one form?
Edit #1: I have tried to use the YouTube Data API to pull these "Preferred" channels' playlists via /channel/lists, but both efforts were a bust as the /channel/list only returned the single top-level channel and the playlists were empty.
Edit #2: I tried the solution from this: Youtube api get the channels from the Featured channels module and it did not work (despite this question being tagged as a duplicate of it).
You can use the channelSections.list endpoint with the Google Preferred channel id (UCiq_aAkP44mMpRx8VvQiF6w), the preferred channel ids are in the contentDetails separated in 1% and 5% groups
Example: https://developers.google.com/apis-explorer/#p/youtube/v3/youtube.channelSections.list?part=contentDetails&channelId=UCiq_aAkP44mMpRx8VvQiF6w&_h=1&
Is there any YouTube API which enables external applications to search for keyword/brand name across all video comments on YouTube and send it back to some URL? Also, pull method is fine if the proposed push idea does not exist.
So I would like to know if my brand was mentioned in any video comment on YouTube, similar as what Twitter allows with User/Site Streams.
The YouTube API (v2.0) defines comments as a property of the video object. Details on this relationship here:
https://developers.google.com/youtube/2.0/developers_guide_protocol_comments?hl=en#Retrieve_comments
Therefore, in order to search every YouTube comment you would need to traverse the entire collection of videos. If you're going to attempt something like this, it makes sense to validate your concept by first focusing on the feeds or categories that are most relevant to your brand. Details on feed and categories here:
https://developers.google.com/youtube/2.0/developers_guide_protocol_video_feeds
https://developers.google.com/youtube/2.0/developers_guide_protocol_category_keyword_browsing
No, there isn't anything like this available from the existing youtube api (neither V2 nor V3)