Youtube api v3 Get list of user's videos

Question

With Youtube api v2, there's easy way to get videos. Just send a query like this:

http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/mobile/videos?max-results=5&alt=rss&orderby=published&author=OneDirectionVEVO

The Youtube api v2 also has an interactive demo page for building query: http://gdata.youtube.com/demo/index.html

With Youtube api v3, I don't know the corresponding way. Please point me the way with api v3.

Thank you!

Answer 1

The channels#list method will return a JSON with some information about the channel, including the playlist ID for the "uploads" playlist:

https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/channels?part=contentDetails&forUsername=OneDirectionVEVO&key={YOUR_API_KEY}

With the playlist ID you can get the videos with the playlistItems#list method:

https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/playlistItems?part=snippet&playlistId=UUbW18JZRgko_mOGm5er8Yzg&key={YOUR_API_KEY}

You can test those at the end of the documentation pages.

Answer 2

This should do it. This code just gets and outputs the title but you can get any details you want

// Get Uploads Playlist
$.get(
   "https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/channels",{
   part : 'contentDetails', 
   forUsername : 'USER_CHANNEL_NAME',
   key: 'YOUR_API_KEY'},
   function(data) {
      $.each( data.items, function( i, item ) {
          pid = item.contentDetails.relatedPlaylists.uploads;
          getVids(pid);
      });
  }
);

//Get Videos
function getVids(pid){
    $.get(
        "https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/playlistItems",{
        part : 'snippet', 
        maxResults : 20,
        playlistId : pid,
        key: 'YOUR_API_KEY'},
        function(data) {
            var results;
            $.each( data.items, function( i, item ) {
                results = '<li>'+ item.snippet.title +'</li>';
                $('#results').append(results);
            });
        }
    );
}


<!--In your HTML -->
<ul id="results"></ul>

Answer 3

If quota cost is a consideration, it may be beneficial to follow this simple algorithm.

First grab the data from https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=... This is a simple XML feed which will give you the video ID's, but you cannot specify further 'parts' (stats, etc).

Using the video ID's from that list, do a query on the /videos API endpoint which allows for a comma-separated-list of video ID's which should only result in 1 quota cost, plus 0-2 for any additional part parameters. As @chrismacp points out, using the /search endpoint is simpler but has a quota cost of 100, which can add up quickly.

There is a resource consideration here (cpu, memory, etc) as you are making a second call, but I believe in many scenarios this can be a useful method.

Answer 4

Things have changed alot in V3 of the API. Here is a video that walks you through the v3 API calls needed to get a list of the videos uploaded in a given channel, with live demos using the API Explorer.

YouTube Developers Live: Getting a Channel's Uploads in v3 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjUlmco7v2M

Answer 5

In case it helps anyone here this is what I discovered and so far seems to be working well for me. I am authenticating the member via OAuth 2.0 prior to making this request, which will give me the authenticated members videos. As always, your personal mileage may vary :D

curl https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search -G \
-d part=snippet \
-d forMine=true \
-d type=video \
-d order=date \
-d access_token={AUTHENTICATED_ACCESS_TOKEN}

Answer 6

The equivalent of the request you posted is actually a search in the 3.0 api, not a playlist request. It's easier too to do it that way. You do need to excange the username for a channel ID though.

ex. GET https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/playlistItems?part=snippet&playlistId=UUGhCVGZ0ZSpe5hJHWyiLwHA&key={YOUR_API_KEY}

Answer 7

Here is some code using the offical Google APIs Node library (https://github.com/google/google-api-nodejs-client)

const readJson = require("r-json");
const google = require('googleapis');
const Youtube = google.youtube('v3');

// DONT store your credentials in version control
const CREDENTIALS = readJson("/some/directory/credentials.json");

let user = "<youruser>";
let numberItems = 10; 

let channelConfig = {
  key: CREDENTIALS.youtube.API_KEY,
  part: "contentDetails",
  forUsername: user
};

Youtube.channels.list(channelConfig, function (error, data) {

  if (error) {
    console.log("Error fetching YouTube user video list", error);
    return;
  }

  // Get the uploads playlist Id
  let uploadsPlaylistId = data.items[0].contentDetails.relatedPlaylists.uploads;

  let playlistConfig = {
    part : 'snippet',
    maxResults : size,
    playlistId : uploadsPlaylistId,
    key: CREDENTIALS.youtube.API_KEY
  };

  // Fetch items from upload playlist
  Youtube.playlistItems.list(playlistConfig, function (error, data) {

    if (error) {
      console.log("Error fetching YouTube user video list", error);
    }

    doSomethingWithYourData(data.items);
  });
});

Answer 8

An alternative method may be to get the playlists for the currently oauth authenticated user via: property mine=true

where the oauth access_token is retrieved following authentification: https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/guides/authentication

https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/playlists?part=id&mine=true&access_token=ya29.0gC7xyzxyzxyz

Answer 9

Please don't use playlistitems.list if you want to get the videos of playlist with more then 300 videos. You can try it live in google link "https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/playlistItems/list" in "Try it" section. It returns undefined.

I have used in my project also. It returns undefined only.

Answer 10

In PHP: I used pageToken attribute to go to all page of playlist.I hope it can help you.

//step 1: get playlist id

 $response = file_get_contents("https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/channels?key={$api_key}&forUsername={$channelName}&part=contentDetails");
 $searchResponse = json_decode($response,true);
 $data = $searchResponse['items'];
 $pid =  $data[0]['contentDetails']['relatedPlaylists']['uploads'];

//step 2: get all videos in playlist

 $nextPageToken = '';
 while(!is_null($nextPageToken)) {
     $request = "https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/playlistItems?key={$api_key}&playlistId={$pid}&part=snippet&maxResults=50&pageToken=$nextPageToken";

    $response = file_get_contents($request);
    $videos = json_decode($response,true);

    //get info each video here...

   //go next page
    $nextPageToken = $videos['nextPageToken'];
}

Answer 11

In node.js, it can be achieved with following code.

Requires authKey and channelId as options object parameter.

cb callback is called after data is fetched.

async function fetchChannelInfo(options) {
  const channelUrl = `https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/channels?part=contentDetails,statistics&id=${
    options.channelId
  }&key=${options.authKey}`;
  const channelData = await axios.get(channelUrl);

  return channelData.data.items[0];
}
function fetch(options, cb) {
  fetchChannelInfo(options).then((channelData) => {
    options.playlistId = channelData.contentDetails.relatedPlaylists.uploads;
    const paylistUrl = `https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/playlistItems?part=snippet&playlistId=${
      options.playlistId
    }&key=${options.authKey}`;

    axios
      .get(paylistUrl)
      .then((response) => {
        const payloadData = ;

        const videoList = [];
        response.data.items.forEach((video) => {
          videoList.push({
            publishedAt: video.snippet.publishedAt,
            title: video.snippet.title,
            thumbnails: thumbnails,
            videoId: video.snippet.resourceId.videoId,
          });
        });

        cb(null, videoList);
      })
      .catch((err) => {
        cb(err, null);
      });
  });
}

Note: axios is used for RESTful requests. To install

npm install axios

Answer 12

$.get(
    "https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/channels",{
      part: 'snippet,contentDetails,statistics,brandingSettings',
      id: viewid,
      key: api},
      function(data){

        $.each(data.items, function(i, item){


          channelId = item.id;
          pvideo = item.contentDetails.relatedPlaylists.uploads;
          uploads(pvideo);
});

      });

Uploads Function can be

function uploads(pvideo){


       $.get(
        "https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/playlistItems",{
          part: 'snippet',
          maxResults:12,
          playlistId:pvideo,
          key: api},
          function(data){


            $.each(data.items, function(i, item){

                 videoTitle = item.snippet.title;
             videoId = item.id;
            description = item.snippet.description;
            thumb = item.snippet.thumbnails.high.url;
            channelTitle = item.snippet.channelTitle;
            videoDate = item.snippet.publishedAt;
            Catagoryid = item.snippet.categoryId;
            cID = item.snippet.channelId;

            })
          }
        );
     }

Answer 13

function tplawesome(e,t){res=e;for(var n=0;n<t.length;n++){res=res.replace(/\{\{(.*?)\}\}/g,function(e,r){return t[n][r]})}return res}



$(function() {


    $(".form-control").click(function(e) {


       e.preventDefault();


       // prepare the request


       var request = gapi.client.youtube.search.list({


            part: "snippet",


            type: "video",


            q: encodeURIComponent($("#search").val()).replace(/%20/g, "+"),


            maxResults: 20,


            order: "viewCount",


            publishedAfter: "2017-01-01T00:00:00Z"


       }); 


       // execute the request


       request.execute(function(response) {


          var results = response.result;


          $("#results").html("");


          $.each(results.items, function(index, item) {


            $.get("tpl/item.html", function(data) {


                $("#results").append(tplawesome(data, [{"title":item.snippet.title, "videoid":item.id.videoId ,"descrip":item.snippet.description ,"date":item.snippet.publishedAt ,"channel":item.snippet.channelTitle ,"kind":item.id.kind ,"lan":item.id.etag}]));


            });


            


          });


          resetVideoHeight();


       });


    });


    


    $(window).on("resize", resetVideoHeight);


});



function resetVideoHeight() {


    $(".video").css("height", $("#results").width() * 9/16);


}



function init() {


    gapi.client.setApiKey("YOUR API KEY .... USE YOUR KEY");


    gapi.client.load("youtube", "v3", function() {


        // yt api is ready


    });


}

Check the Complete code here https://thecodingshow.blogspot.com/2018/12/youtube-search-api-website.html