Is it possible to query the YouTube API for videos BY X tag from Y user but use an offset so as to build a paginated list. In other words get Videos By X Tag From Y User Offset 10.
I'd like to do this so I can build a paginated list.
catgeory=someTag&user=myUserName&offset=100
I am build a Vlog app and loading 380 results at once isn't going to work for me. I need to basically load like 20 at a time.
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I have a very loooong list of YouTube videos (in Google sheets) and want to get their duration.
You can pull it using importxml:
=IMPORTXML("youtube url","//*[#itemprop='duration']/#content")
the format comes back as PT7M54S which means 7 min 54 seconds so if you want to transform it you can do this:
=REGEXREPLACE(IMPORTXML("youtube url","//*[#itemprop='duration']/#content"),"(PT)(\d+)M(\d+)S","$2:$3")
hello friends i am using youtube search api
https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search?pageToken=CDIQAA&part=snippet&location=40.748817%2C-73.985428&locationRadius=1km&maxResults=50&type=video
but in response i am not getting location attributes . I have only channel Id and video id and i want posted location .
Tested your search query, it returned a 200 OK but with no results and when I changed the query to 10KM radius, I got 23 results. Anyhow, the location details you are searching are a part of recordingDetails as shown here. Scroll down to Resource Representation on that page. This is an optional parameter and does not necessarily have to be included. However, recordingDetails are a part of the Videos List and Search endpoint doesn't allow you to query those. So you might have a better chance querying the Videos List endpoint.
Scroll down to the bottom of Videos List link and enter the following value to see what I mean:
part - snippet,recordingDetails
chart - mostPopular
maxResults - 50
This endpoint accepts Video ID as an input and would allow you to search for a video using it's ID.
As you can also see in the Videos Insert endpoint, these are optional parameters left for the uploader to define. Hence, if you're not getting any results it probably means they were not defined for that video.
I have been using the YouTube Data API v3 to make search requests to get basic details of all of the videos on a particular channel. The channel I am searching contains a few hundred videos so I make search requests in batches of 50 using the nextPageToken, an example of which is shown below:-
https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search?part=snippet&maxResults=50&channelId=<channelid>&key=<key>&pageToken=<nextPageToken>
This appears to work fine until the penultimate and final searches, where I begin to see varying results. Some of the videos in the results don't have an Id associated with them, which seems a little strange? However, more interesting is the fact that the number of videos which are missing an id varies if you make the same request repeatedly.
An example of the sorts of results I am getting (based upon 100 same searches):-
Penultimate page (100 requests): 60 results of 41 videos with an id and 9 without an id, 38 results of 37 videos with an id and 13 without an id and 2 results of 38 videos with an id and 12 without an id.
Final page (100 requests): 64 results of 25 videos all with an id and 36 results of 24 videos with an id and 1 without an id.
Clearly this will lead to an inconsistent total number of videos returned as I require there to be an Id (which is how I noticed this was occurring in the first place).
I am testing these results in a unit test currently to keep things isolated.
Is there something I'm missing here or is there just a bug in the API?
UPDATE
Added the parameter "type=video" as suggested in the comments. This seems to limit the issue to the last page of the search as noted, but the issue still persists.
I'm trying to load the first 100 videos of a YouTube channel and I can only load 50 videos. I always get this error message
Max-results value is too high. Only up to 50 results can be returned per query.
and I'm using this URL.
http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/shaytards/uploads?&max-results=100
I'm not sure if I need any kind of developer key to load 100 results. Even if you know a way to load videos 75-100 would be great but any help would be appreciated.
The Youtube data API requires you to set up your own pagination if you need to get more than 50 results. In this case, then, you would set max-results to 50 and do the query, then on your page have some sort of "next" button (or however you want to implement your pagination) that would trigger a new call (either through ajax, a new page, or whatever your own workflow is). This new call would be to the same data feed, but you'd append the parameter &start-index=51 so that you'd get 50 more results, numbered 51-100. You can continue on like this up to 1000 results.
See https://developers.google.com/youtube/2.0/reference#Paging_through_Results for more details.
In the YouTube Data API V3 it is a little different. Each search query returns a "nextPageToken" that can be used in a subsequent query for more results. Documentation: https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/guides/implementation/pagination
Is there some way I can retrieve more than 100 results using YouTube API?
I can retrive upto 100 results using this query string:
https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos?q=football&orderby=relevance&start-index=1&max-results=10&v=2
But when I try
https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos?q=football&orderby=relevance&start-index=101&max-results=10&v=2
I get:
http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' gd:etag='W/"C0YFQHg9fyp7I2A9WhBVGUk."'>tag:youtube.com,2008:videos2013-04-26T01:51:51.667Zhttp://schemas.google.com/g/2005#kind' term='http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007#video'/>Videos matching: footballhttp://www.youtube.com/img/pic_youtubelogo_123x63.gifhttps://www.youtube.com'/>http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos?v=2'/>http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#batch' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/batch?v=2'/>https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos?q=football&start-index=101&max-results=10&orderby=relevance&v=2'/>https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos?alt=atom-service&v=2'/>https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos?q=football&start-index=91&max-results=10&orderby=relevance&v=2'/>YouTubehttp://www.youtube.com/http://gdata.youtube.com'>YouTube data API10010110
From what I understand, you can get 999 results using YouTube search API. Why is this limited to 100 here? Is there a workaround for me to get more than 100 results?
Thanks!
I can't speak to whether or not something has changed internally that is now capping totalResults at 100, but it seems to be a pretty common problem across the board today. However, if you were to try using v3 of the API, this wouldn't be an issue: for example, this query:
https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search?q=football&part=id&key=YOUR_DEVELOPER_KEY
Will give you many, many more total results. With v3, you can set the maxResults parameter up to 50 videos returned for each response, and then paginate through the responses by setting the pageToken parameter to whatever the "nextPageToken" attribute of a given response is.
Try like this https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos?q=football&orderby=relevance&v=2
It will take the default size. When you use the start index and size you are using the pagination mechanism. I guess thats the problem here. And misfortune is that Google youtube API supports only max of 50 videos per query. Its there in the docs. 999 videos are the total videos that can be in a video feed. Not the number of videos it would query out. Dont mistakenly take it as it would return you all the videos. You have to use pagination with start index and size inorder to go through all the videos.
you can use this url
https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search?q=football&part=id&key=YOUR_DEVELOPER_KEY&max-results=150
and you easily get more than 100 results
I'm confused by this same issue - video search queries with start-index > 100 do not return any results:
http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos?v=2&q=skateboarding+dog&max-results=50&start-index=101
and queries with a start-index < 100 return only the number of videos up to 100:
http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos?v=2&q=skateboarding+dog&max-results=50&start-index=90
gives you 10 videos.
Shouldn't you be able to access results beyond the first 100 returned by the search?
There's a caching/escalating issue for pagination.
Check this answer here.
The correct way to page through a feed is to make the first request
for the feed without a start-index, and then check to see whether
there's a <link rel="next'...> and if so, use that URL to retrieve the
next page of a feed.
I discovered that if you put a small pause between each pagination call to API, it returns 400 results, it's mean 1 call per page putting 2 second between each call. It works for my. If you wuould like get more it, you have to close the connection to API and try again one or two minutes later.