I'm not getting the description form my uploaded videos when i query them via Youtube Data API v3 using OAuth 2.0 and the sample code provided here https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/playlistItems/list.
Could this be a bug? None of my videos are private and the only thing that is missing from the response is the video's description!
I'm using the PHP library and the "part" parameter is snippet (don't know if this helps).
Thanks in advance.
I believe this is intended, since video descriptions are not displayed when viewing playlists on YouTube.
If you wish to include the description of your uploaded videos, consider using YouTube API v3 Search: list instead. An ellipsis-truncated description will be provided for your videos under snippet/description. Again, this behaviour is similar to searching on YouTube, where descriptions are cut off.
If a full description is required, you'll need to use Videos: list.
Alternatively, use version 2 of the API: https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/youtube_username/uploads?max-results=50&start-index=1.
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I'm working on a site where they have recently changed their domain. I'm trying to get a list of all the videos that contain that domain and change to the new domain using the Youtube API.
I am using the developers PHP example on search list, changing the 'q' value to be equal the old website domain and also adding a channelId parameter so that it'll only search inside their channel.
The problem is that some of the results do not contain the old URL in the description. Am I doing something wrong?
Thanks!
AFAIK there isn't any official YouTube Data API v3 endpoint to directly do what you are trying to.
If I were you I would list the YouTube channel's videos and then use Videos: list with part=snippet to retrieve their descriptions and then I would locally filter the retrieved descriptions.
I'm trying to retrieve the comments I've made on YouTube to turn them into Markdown files, but I can't find a way to do it filtering by user in the API documentation.
I thought it would be possible since the Google account has a link for it but when using the parameter "channelID" in the API to list comments as it says in the documentation, it gives back a 400 error.
You are looking for the comments your channel posted, however when using CommentThreads: list with channelId=YOUR_CHANNEL_ID you are listing comments people wrote on your channel, as described the documentation:
channelId
string
The channelId parameter instructs the API to return comment threads containing comments about the specified channel. (The response will not include comments left on videos that the channel uploaded.)
One more time YouTube Data API v3 AFAIK doesn't provide this basic feature.
You have two possibilities:
Use Google TakeOut (make sure to export Comments in YouTube and YouTube Music)
Web-scrap the webpage you provided
I have an application that uses the YouTube API to display a list of playlists and videos from a particular YouTube Channel. The application supports multiple languages so I also used the localizations feature YouTube API offers and it works great with v3/videos and v3/playlists using the hl param, but the only problem I faced was with v3/playlistItems as it doesn't have support for localizations.
Please help me in adding localizations using v3/playlistItems so that all videos under a particular playlist displays localized title and description.
An ugly work around is to send two requests. First fetch the video-ids by using v3/playlistItems, then use v3/videos with the video-ids separated by comma, to get the translation with the available hl param.
There is currently no indicated way of doing this from the PlaylistItems docs. Try filing for a feature request here.
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[]
Hi guys, this is my first time to post on this awesome community so
please bear with me.
I am working with a Wordpress Plugin that can display a Youtube Search Results into Video Playlist.
My settings are:
Keywords
Author
Content- channel/keyword
My first Approach was this:
with this api as reference,
search for the keyword > display the relevant results according to the author as playlist
*I'm in doubt if I this is possible, coding 30%
*I'm not sure where could I use my settings for Content
but then when my coding is in progress I recently bumped an article that says Youtube Search is differrent on Searching a Youtube Playlist
Now I can't continue my coding because I'm not sure If I'm doing it
right. Can you give me some advise with this situation or show me some
similar project/examples?
You don't have to write any YouTube Data API code for this; it's a built-in feature of the YouTube Player.
This blog post has an example of loading a list player that takes its content from the recent uploads of a channel. You can do something similar by setting listType=search&list=SEARCH_TERM, where SEARCH_TERM is whatever string you want to search for (be sure to URL escape it). You can read more in the documentation.