How to Get All Movies (not videos) with YouTube V3 API - youtube-api

Question

I want to list all the movies available on YouTube (i.e. those available via //youtube.com/movies). I can see how to query those using API V2, but this has a limit of 1000 responses.
With the V3 api I can see the category for movies has id 30, but I can't work out how to get all movies with this category. The only category queries appear to search on guide categories, which are different.
Any clues on how I can get this list? Please help if you can!

Answer 1

I believe that you can get the autogenerated channels, related to movies, and use their id to get the playlists related to this channels and finally the items (videos..) from this playlists, that must be the videos related to the movies of the selected channels:
Retrieve movie channels:
Request
https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search?part=snippet&q=movies&type=channel&key={YOUR_API_KEY}
Partial response
"items": [
{
"id": {
"kind": "youtube#channel",
"channelId": "UCczhp4wznQWonO7Pb8HQ2MQ"
},
"kind": "youtube#searchResult",
"etag": "\"eTr3dHIt5_K9qdGtRKL-5XdpiQI/sQpwXP-0MUEZzOQx4F0yKj0eUR4\"",
"snippet": {
"publishedAt": "2005-12-15T03:07:36.000Z",
"channelId": "UCczhp4wznQWonO7Pb8HQ2MQ",
"title": "movies",
"description": "YouTube Movies (United States).",
"thumbnails": {
"default": {
"url": "http://i.ytimg.com/i/czhp4wznQWonO7Pb8HQ2MQ/1.jpg"
},
"medium": {
"url": "http://i.ytimg.com/i/czhp4wznQWonO7Pb8HQ2MQ/mq1.jpg"
},
"high": {
"url": "http://i.ytimg.com/i/czhp4wznQWonO7Pb8HQ2MQ/hq1.jpg"
}
}
}
},
e.g. Get the list of movies in channel "YouTube Movies (United States)"
Request
https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/playlists?part=snippet&channelId=UCczhp4wznQWonO7Pb8HQ2MQ&key={YOUR_API_KEY}
Partial response:
{
"id": "PLjygWhZE6KY0Uhw12FsAc8raAClz0l71C",
"kind": "youtube#playlist",
"etag": "\"eTr3dHIt5_K9qdGtRKL-5XdpiQI/TWrkoCkmJvq14neCcutnApHMMgU\"",
"snippet": {
"publishedAt": "2012-12-06T20:11:40.000Z",
"channelId": "UCczhp4wznQWonO7Pb8HQ2MQ",
"title": "The Nicolas Cage Collection",
"description": "From panicked fathers to spirits of vengeance, Nicolas Cage has done it all.",
"thumbnails": {
"default": {
"url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/nHiy8SVZdpU/default.jpg"
},
"medium": {
"url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/nHiy8SVZdpU/mqdefault.jpg"
},
"high": {
"url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/nHiy8SVZdpU/hqdefault.jpg"
}
}
}
},
Get items from this playlist:
Request:
https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/playlistItems?part=snippet&playlistId=PLjygWhZE6KY0Uhw12FsAc8raAClz0l71C&key={YOUR_API_KEY}
Partial response:
{
"kind": "youtube#playlistItemListResponse",
"etag": "\"eTr3dHIt5_K9qdGtRKL-5XdpiQI/KSlqEnNGq36l47_k9W3fd79KfYQ\"",
"pageInfo": {
"totalResults": 15,
"resultsPerPage": 5
},
"nextPageToken": "CAUQAA",
"items": [
{
"id": "PLcBtbpFAOApiV34TU797yEFAUZuwhFrvJya3MqlZWkGM",
"kind": "youtube#playlistItem",
"etag": "\"eTr3dHIt5_K9qdGtRKL-5XdpiQI/C_xTa48Xof7giXobSula2vWX43A\"",
"snippet": {
"publishedAt": "2012-12-06T20:12:49.000Z",
"channelId": "UCczhp4wznQWonO7Pb8HQ2MQ",
"title": "Stolen",
"thumbnails": {
"default": {
"url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/nHiy8SVZdpU/default.jpg"
},
"medium": {
"url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/nHiy8SVZdpU/mqdefault.jpg"
},
"high": {
"url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/nHiy8SVZdpU/hqdefault.jpg"
}
},
"playlistId": "PLjygWhZE6KY0Uhw12FsAc8raAClz0l71C",
"position": 0,
"resourceId": {
"kind": "youtube#video",
"videoId": "nHiy8SVZdpU"
}
}
},
{
"id": "PLcBtbpFAOApiV34TU797yED-1zeMCoMGVxtVgtX9ZdsQ",
"kind": "youtube#playlistItem",
"etag": "\"eTr3dHIt5_K9qdGtRKL-5XdpiQI/LgSyqtZkwJXv6-2ajW0g-FsgddQ\"",
"snippet": {
"publishedAt": "2012-12-06T20:19:26.000Z",
"channelId": "UCczhp4wznQWonO7Pb8HQ2MQ",
"title": "Trespass",
"thumbnails": {
"default": {
"url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/J_7Zug6ouy4/default.jpg"
},
"medium": {
"url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/J_7Zug6ouy4/mqdefault.jpg"
},
"high": {
"url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/J_7Zug6ouy4/hqdefault.jpg"
}
},
"playlistId": "PLjygWhZE6KY0Uhw12FsAc8raAClz0l71C",
"position": 1,
"resourceId": {
"kind": "youtube#video",
"videoId": "J_7Zug6ouy4"
}
}
},
and in this way you can create the list of videos as you want

Answer 2

Here's my current answer - still working on it so I've not accepted it yet
I worked out the categoryId for Movies is 30. I then did a search for videos using this categoryId, and the query string "movie" (just because I need to put something). This gives more than 1000 results, and google limits queries to 1000 results even with the v3 api.
So I need to partition my query. I have been able to do this with publishedBefore and publishedAfter. Note these are upload dates and not release dates.
This gives me a list of movies.
Here's a sample query
https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search?nextPageToken=CDIQAA&publishedBefore=2010-02-01T00%3A00%3A00Z&maxResults=50&q=movie&videoCategoryId=30&part=id%2Csnippet&key=yourAPIKeyHere&type=video&publishedAfter=2010-01-01T00%3A00%3A00Z
Once I have the movie IDs I query the individual movie ids
https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/videos?part=snippet%2CcontentDetails&maxResults=50&id=O7cSKNevYQc%2CN84-SoboM6c%2C9K_WO3lqDSc%2CWTJP0Z-bknc%2CdF9hwjeRbGE%2CPnefvJ9T1N0%2CDuM6B4yKgTU%2C0tI8iP2f58I%2Cr4lNJEnY0FA%2COFnMrx6yEcA%2CmUZUAeqOmbg%2CDjq0tHK-KTo%2CkY44nxk0qjg%2CcLYkUR5MY14%2CTZpcfYOOEXA%2C-0jA9DMX8Qs%2C2TQDV1m4X2s%2CBh3Tye1OQvk%2Ct5IwjMDVNz4%2CkOi88X6xeKg%2Ck53CuaAUtik%2CNaRuenqLb9g%2Cn9h-0Wgix7Q%2CQG8SiW2a_l0%2Cmk-D66Z1Ydg%2ClvmwofckpNc%2CgRQK4fTXfBM%2CPZHgLy48R3Q%2CwczeO0DVM0g%2CTpMDTG3dEYE%2C6JI8pN7BqEQ%2COv9yllk3hsY%2CsN09sfLPu0g%2CbfhLYJGN948%2CPiWusdK75Ys%2CeE5jh0YwTCY%2C_cIw3vr2Q18%2CSA4xg_k0aqI%2CUZdha0zTM6w%2CwUdkDSIBw94%2CAhR-LDSIOaI%2C1XMt40vJayU%2C83fPx5-aUL8%2CmJLjaKzu7PQ%2CZvj_zRGnwU0%2CtyIPMd7JXOA%2CToE10sC36KQ%2COVKXjOW6cD8%2CLPW1cXVjMrg&key=LALALA
I still then need to filter the results by looking at the following json in the results
"contentDetails": {
"duration": "PT1H35M14S",
"regionRestriction": {
"allowed": [
"US"
]
}
Unfortunately this still doesn't give me the movie year or director (which are useful for working out which movie this actually is), or the price (which, you know, people find interesting)