I try finding a way to get the viewcount of the last 6 months of any given YouTube channel. The YouTube analytics API is not helpful, cause it only allows for channels I own - the YouTube data API only returns the total view count of the channel lifetime.
Is there a way I can get the view count a channel has made on a monthly basis via the API? Scraping socialblade is my second option, but I'd rather use the Google Api.
Thanks for your help!
Your going to have to do it like socalblade probably does.
Just scan each channel you want to check every month.
YouTube analytics api only stores data for three months I think and you have to be authorized as you mentioned.
The YouTube data api doesn't store data by date its not intended for analytics.
I set up a system for a client a while back that just poles a few channels every day to get stats for them. Its not optimal but it works.
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Google YouTube API allows maximum 10,000 units of quota per day. I am trying to avoid 'Quota Exceeded' error as I am making too many calls against the "Search: list" API which costs 100 units of quota per API call.
I read this and several other blogs; and went with my own below analysis.
I am planning to pull data every day once and store it in the database. Can any expert please confirm if below will cover up all the videos under the channel, or I will miss some?
(1) Playlists: list --> Get all the playlists from the channel.
(2) PlaylistItems: list --> Iterate over each playlist one by one, and get all videos in it.
To answer your comment #Test:
I want to ask whether if i loop all playlists, will it give ma all the videos under channel id or not.
If by all playlists you mean all playlists intentionally created by the given YouTube channel then it depends whether or not he selected all his videos.
I would recommend you to use this approach to retrieve all YouTube videos of a given YouTube channel which seems to be your case. The approach consists in getting the uploads auto-created playlist id of the YouTube channel by using Channels: list with contentDetails in part and then use PlaylistItems: list to retrieve all public videos uploaded on this YouTube channel. Using this method you will retrieve all public YouTube videos as long as the studied YouTube channel has less than 20 000 YouTube public videos. In this last case use this script which softwarly fake an automatic browse in the Videos tab of the given YouTube channel.
I tried Analytics and Reporting APIs separately. And there are questions and answers which deals with them separately. But I want to know is there any single one shot API which gives both? The total number of videos means all the videos irrespective of the playlists. I'm doing this with ReactJS for my own portfolio website.
I did some more research on this. I couldn't find a full fledged api with documentation but you can use this:
https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/channels?part=statistics&id=your-channel-id&key=your-api-key
Make sure you've that api enabled. I'm using Youtube Analytics.
Is it possible to create multiple API keys for the YouTube Data API?
The majority of Live YouTube Subscriber Counters use loads of different API keys for their counters (as can be seen in their JavaScript code).
The aim of doing so is to not exceed the daily quota limit of 1,000,000 and having to send requests every few seconds per page visited would mean that the limit would be reached very quickly.
How are they able to get away with this?
Here is a SO post to answer your question.
Technically you can run your application using different API Keys it
should work fine. Technically there is nothing wrong with creating
additional projects on Google Developer console. You don't need to go
as far as creating another Google account.
I know how to get the current trends of Twitter for a specific location, but is there any way to get 5 hours back trend in Twitter using API ?
The Twitter REST API does not support this sort of inquiry. To accomplish this, you would need to have your application poll the trends every hour (or so) and store them in a database. You could then query that database however you like.
I know that the Youtube Data API can be used to access the total viewCount of a video.
However, I would like to view the previous viewCount of a video based on a specific date and/or time. For example, video A currently has a viewCount of 500,000 at the current date and time but perhaps a month ago it had a viewCount of 400,000. How would I access that previous value?
Is there any Youtube API method or alternative resource that would allow me to access the previous view count of a video/list of videos?
Thank you!
This may not be possible in the YouTube Data API. However, you may have to look into the YouTube Analytics API.
To query, you have to use the reports.query API along with the appropriate Dimensions and Metrics. For example, Dimensions would be month and Metrics would be views.