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.
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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.
I checked the Youtube API and it's mainly to do with adding functionalities related to the YouTube app rather than getting analytics data about videos.
There is a chrome extension called VidIQ that shows the views per hours of a particular video when going to the video's page on YouTube, so I tried reading the source code for it, but it is all compressed and I can't easily find what I'm looking for.
Could someone explain to me how VidIQ chrome extension is getting the views per hour stat for YouTube? Maybe it's not an official stat from Youtube but a rough estimate calculated by VidIQ. How do they get this information?
I tried debugging the VidIQ chrome extension to search through the source code but adding a simple html tag made the file corrupted and disabled the extension until I repaired it again. I'm having difficulties deciphering the source code.
Most of what VidIQ gets is from the YouTube analytics api and not directly from the YouTube data api although i would be they use some combination of both.
If you create a report that extracts views and run it every hour you should get the results you are looking for.
However i would be willing to be that they cache a lot of the data and do some internal analytics on it. They would need to cache it as the YouTube analytics api only returns data for the last 90 days last i checked.
If your intent is to Reverse Engineer VidIQ you may need to accept that a lot of the data you are seeing is internally stored in their system and generated by them based upon the data that is avaliable in the YouTube Analytics API and the YouTube data apis.
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.
I am implementing youtube api for searching videos. I have noticed that search results differ by changing orderby parameter's value. There is one video which shows up with "published" but not with "viewCount". I know, list order will change by changing parameters.
While using viewCount for orderby parameter, videos with lesser view count are visible but some specific video is not listed having large viewCount. And same video can be found by using "published" for orderby.
Kindly explain, how exactly youtube api works.
Thanks!
On an ongoing basis, statistics for a video are typically updated every 30 minutes to two hours. However, updates may occur less frequently under heavy server loads or for videos that are viewed very infrequently. In search feeds, updates to ratings and view counts could take as long as a couple of weeks for infrequently viewed videos.
The YouTube Data API retrieves search results from a specially optimized search index. The index is designed to include new videos as quickly as possible while ensuring high performance even under heavy API server loads. For more info see here: YouTube API
I am building last.fm+youtube mashup and I am having trouble retrieving righ results from youtube search.
E.g.
http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos?q=Gedz+Gucci%20Gucci%20(feat.%20Joda)&orderBy=relevance
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Gedz+Gucci%20Gucci%20(feat.%20Joda)&oq=Gedz+Gucci%20Gucci%20(feat.%20Joda)
The track I am interested in is on the second place in youtube.com search. How I can make api results look as much similar to youtube.com search?
The method YouTube uses for it's provided search results on the home page includes Related Videos which is based on a proprietary algorithm.
Unfortunately, this proprietary method is not yet available in their API (v1 or current v2) which is why you don't have the same results provided.
The YouTube API Page shows how to use the Related Videos API feature, but only for a single video since it's limited to that use.
I've seen various questions/replies that come and go on the forum about this issue, like this ignored one.
Consider using the Related Videos based on a single video, which the API does support.
Example of that usage for YouTube Video Gedz - Gucci Gucci gość. Joda is:
https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/oepPdNKzxk0/related?v=2
You will see 25 results (default quantity when not specified in query) that are similar but not exact as the single video's YouTube page. Different algorithm's are at play here too, but this method is the best that's currently available.
My untested solution for your project goal is as follows:
1. Use current method to acquire video ID feeds.
2. If the results are less than the amount required, use the returned results first Video ID as a reference.
3. The Video ID reference (just a single video) is then used to perform another query for Related Videos.
4. You can then combine both query's to create a final list of Video ID's which to use.