Recently, Youtube added the ability to break up their videos in the progress bar into sections called "chapters".
https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/9884579?hl=en
Currently I am able to get info about a video from the Youtube API. However, it doesn't seem like there's any info about a video's chapters, and I haven't found anything in the API documentation about chapters. Am I missing something, or is there simply no way to get chapter data yet?
As far as I know, such data is in plain text in the description of the video.
So, you can use the following example:
Video used in this demonstration: Top 10 Monsters with 2500 Attack in YuGiOh
URL Request:
https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/videos?part=snippet&id=NNgYId7b4j0&key=[YOUR_API_KEY]
Response:
{
"kind": "youtube#videoListResponse",
"etag": "YpVLmrSx1iP8hAJOnumaTBoKqqQ",
"items": [
{
"kind": "youtube#video",
"etag": "oIoJq5F3RHvBbtVohafaJ_1SThU",
"id": "NNgYId7b4j0",
"snippet": {
"publishedAt": "2020-09-14T18:37:46Z",
"channelId": "UC0roOaAn95Rtgoe078RkVXQ",
"title": "Top 10 Monsters with 2500 Attack in YuGiOh",
"description": "In this video we'll go over the best monsters that have 2500 attack, and attack threshold for a lot of boss monsters actually.\n\nCheck out my DnD channel #TheD&DLogs \n\n--The List--\nIntro: (0:00)\n10- Blue-Eyes Spirit Dragon: (0:00)\n9- Invoked Mechaba: (2:14)\n8- Number S39: Utopia the Lightning: (3:23)\n7- Earthbound Immortal Aslla Piscu: (4:35)\n6- Eldlich the golden Lord: (6:04)\n5- True King Lithosagym the Disaster: (7:34)\n4- Block Dragon: (8:54)\n3- Astrograph sorcerer: (10:25)\n2- Beatrice lady of the eternal: (12:36)\n1- Firewall Dragon: (14:37)\n- \n-----------------------------------------\n#yugioh #top10 \n\nDuels are all done on EDOpro, its completely free and updated all the time. If you want it, just look for the EDOpro discord and you'll find all you need to download it from there\n\nSome of the Video backgrounds in this video were made by \"Amitai Angor AA VFX\" https://www.youtube.com/dvdangor2011\n\n\nhttps://twitter.com/hirumared\nhttps://twitter.com/TheDuelLogs",
"thumbnails": {
"default": {
"url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/NNgYId7b4j0/default.jpg",
"width": 120,
"height": 90
},
"medium": {
"url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/NNgYId7b4j0/mqdefault.jpg",
"width": 320,
"height": 180
},
"high": {
"url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/NNgYId7b4j0/hqdefault.jpg",
"width": 480,
"height": 360
},
"standard": {
"url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/NNgYId7b4j0/sddefault.jpg",
"width": 640,
"height": 480
},
"maxres": {
"url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/NNgYId7b4j0/maxresdefault.jpg",
"width": 1280,
"height": 720
}
},
"channelTitle": "TheDuelLogs",
"tags": [
"yugioh",
"ygo",
"dev",
"pro",
"link",
"duels",
"auto-matic duels",
"online",
"current",
"ban",
"list",
"dueling",
"network",
"theduellogs",
"the",
"duel",
"logs",
"loggs",
"Yu",
"Gi",
"Oh!",
"YGOpro",
"gimmick",
"links",
"top ten",
"2020",
"edopro"
],
"categoryId": "20",
"liveBroadcastContent": "none",
"localized": {
"title": "Top 10 Monsters with 2500 Attack in YuGiOh",
"description": "In this video we'll go over the best monsters that have 2500 attack, and attack threshold for a lot of boss monsters actually.\n\nCheck out my DnD channel #TheD&DLogs \n\n--The List--\nIntro: (0:00)\n10- Blue-Eyes Spirit Dragon: (0:00)\n9- Invoked Mechaba: (2:14)\n8- Number S39: Utopia the Lightning: (3:23)\n7- Earthbound Immortal Aslla Piscu: (4:35)\n6- Eldlich the golden Lord: (6:04)\n5- True King Lithosagym the Disaster: (7:34)\n4- Block Dragon: (8:54)\n3- Astrograph sorcerer: (10:25)\n2- Beatrice lady of the eternal: (12:36)\n1- Firewall Dragon: (14:37)\n- \n-----------------------------------------\n#yugioh #top10 \n\nDuels are all done on EDOpro, its completely free and updated all the time. If you want it, just look for the EDOpro discord and you'll find all you need to download it from there\n\nSome of the Video backgrounds in this video were made by \"Amitai Angor AA VFX\" https://www.youtube.com/dvdangor2011\n\n\nhttps://twitter.com/hirumared\nhttps://twitter.com/TheDuelLogs"
},
"defaultAudioLanguage": "en"
}
}
],
"pageInfo": {
"totalResults": 1,
"resultsPerPage": 1
}
}
Get the response:
response.items[0].snippet.description
Results:
"In this video we'll go over the best monsters that have 2500 attack, and attack threshold for a lot of boss monsters actually.
Check out my DnD channel #TheD&DLogs
--The List--
Intro: (0:00)
10- Blue-Eyes Spirit Dragon: (0:00)
9- Invoked Mechaba: (2:14)
8- Number S39: Utopia the Lightning: (3:23)
7- Earthbound Immortal Aslla Piscu: (4:35)
6- Eldlich the golden Lord: (6:04)
5- True King Lithosagym the Disaster: (7:34)
4- Block Dragon: (8:54)
3- Astrograph sorcerer: (10:25)
2- Beatrice lady of the eternal: (12:36)
1- Firewall Dragon: (14:37)
-
-----------------------------------------
#yugioh #top10
Duels are all done on EDOpro, its completely free and updated all the time. If you want it, just look for the EDOpro discord and you'll find all you need to download it from there
Some of the Video backgrounds in this video were made by "Amitai Angor AA VFX" https://www.youtube.com/dvdangor2011
https://twitter.com/hirumared
https://twitter.com/TheDuelLogs"
One more time YouTube Data API v3 doesn't provide a basic feature.
I would suggest you to use my open-source YouTube operational API, indeed by requesting https://yt.lemnoslife.com/videos?part=chapters&id=VIDEO_ID you would get a JSON with the video chapters (titles and timestamps) you are looking for in item['chapters']['chapters'].
Example of result with YouTube video id NNgYId7b4j0:
{
"kind": "youtube#videoListResponse",
"etag": "NotImplemented",
"items": [
{
"kind": "youtube#video",
"etag": "NotImplemented",
"id": "NNgYId7b4j0",
"chapters": {
"areAutoGenerated": false,
"chapters": [
{
"title": "10- Blue-Eyes Spirit Dragon",
"time": 0,
"thumbnails": [
{
"url": "https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/NNgYId7b4j0\/hqdefault_4000.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEiCKgBEF5IWvKriqkDFQgBFQAAAAAYASUAAMhCPQCAokN4AQ==&rs=AOn4CLCoTrvu0Yu-iNxb7o4II-pxi5WVbQ",
"width": 168,
"height": 94
},
{
"url": "https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/NNgYId7b4j0\/hqdefault_4000.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEjCNACELwBSFryq4qpAxUIARUAAAAAGAElAADIQj0AgKJDeAE=&rs=AOn4CLCuupNwIgFIf9hXbjMsvpSGThFyhg",
"width": 336,
"height": 188
}
]
},
{
"title": "9- Invoked Mechaba",
"time": 134,
"thumbnails": [
{
"url": "https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/NNgYId7b4j0\/hqdefault_135933.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEiCKgBEF5IWvKriqkDFQgBFQAAAAAYASUAAMhCPQCAokN4AQ==&rs=AOn4CLBe94BKNpQXvM2dUl75LtcgX0N03w",
"width": 168,
"height": 94
},
{
"url": "https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/NNgYId7b4j0\/hqdefault_135933.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEjCNACELwBSFryq4qpAxUIARUAAAAAGAElAADIQj0AgKJDeAE=&rs=AOn4CLBULUhlI1OOjJiW6mpFDUhPzh4Adw",
"width": 336,
"height": 188
}
]
},
...
]
}
}
]
}
I am replying with this answer to help people such as myself who ended up on this video wanting to find a youtube chapter parser / extractor for text rather than where to find the chapter data. Just to add some further information, currently, there is no way to get the chapters from the official YouTube API, so the only way to get the chapters from a text-description response (like the YouTube API provides) is to parse it in some way:
My answer is in Javascript but it can easily be converted: The idea is to extract the MIN:SEC and HR:MIN:SEC timestamps then to generate the title we remove the word that includes them (So this would typically remove however people aesthetically wrap them too [00:00] or (00:00)
It's far from perfect, but in my experience it's better than the other solutions I've seen on github/npm at the time of writing this. You might want to also trim away starting and ending spaces and punctuational separators such as (-, :, ~, |) too
const parseChapters = (description) => {
// Extract timestamps (either 00:00:00, 0:00:00, 00:00 or 0:00)
const lines = description.split("\n")
const regex = /(\d{0,2}:?\d{1,2}:\d{2})/g
const chapters = []
for (const line of lines) {
// Match the regex and check if the line contains a matched regex
const matches = line.match(regex)
if (matches) {
const ts = matches[0]
const title = line
.split(" ")
.filter((l) => !l.includes(ts))
.join(" ")
chapters.push({
timestamp: ts,
title: title,
})
}
}
return chapters
}
Very late answer but it solved my problem.
You could use the code below. It's written in C# but it can easily be transcribed into another language. Since you can already get youtube video data, I assume you also have the description of the video.
private static IEnumerable<string> GetChaptersFromDescription(string text)
{
var lines = text.Split("\n");
var regex = new Regex(#"[0-9]:[0-9][0-9]");
foreach (var line in lines)
{
if (regex.IsMatch(line))
{
yield return line;
}
}
}
I need parameters to get data that contains stops array. I tried about 100 different combinations, and i didn't get any response that returns stops array in results.
If anyone knows how to accomplish this, please provide your answer.
Thanks.
Having stops is not that common and it usually depends on the distance between origin and destination. For example, having London as origin and Sydney as destination:
https://test.api.amadeus.com/v1/shopping/flight-offers?origin=LON&destination=SYD&departureDate=2019-08-01&nonStop=false&returnDate=2019-08-28
You can check in the response that most of the segments contain stops:
"stops": [
{
"iataCode": "HKG",
"duration": "0DT1H0M",
"arrivalAt": "2019-08-28T12:00:00+08:00",
"departureAt": "2019-08-28T13:00:00+08:00"
},
{
"iataCode": "DOH",
"duration": "0DT1H0M",
"arrivalAt": "2019-08-28T14:00:00+03:00",
"departureAt": "2019-08-28T15:00:00+03:00"
},
{
"iataCode": "BAH",
"duration": "0DT1H0M",
"arrivalAt": "2019-08-28T16:00:00+03:00",
"departureAt": "2019-08-28T17:00:00+03:00"
}
]
Where stop means that an aircraft lands for refueling, for instance, but passengers don't necessary get out of the plane.
I'm trying to get a search list for a specific keyword from the YouTube API.
I've tried: https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search?part=snippet&maxResults=50&q=elanco&key={MY API KEY}
And it only gives me the first 50 Results. So I changed "maxResults" to equal 2000.
But then this error occurs:
{
"error": {
"errors": [
{
"domain": "global",
"reason": "invalidParameter",
"message": "Invalid value '2000'. Values must be within the range: [0, 50]",
"locationType": "parameter",
"location": "maxResults"
}
],
"code": 400,
"message": "Invalid value '2000'. Values must be within the range: [0, 50]"
}
}
Does anyone know how I can get more than 50 results? My keyword generates around 1500 results, I want to be able to see all of them.
Thanks!
As per the docs, maxResults param having restriction [Acceptable values are 0 to 50, inclusive. The default value is 5].
So per one request you can get the 50 records at Max, if you see in the result of your first hit , you will get nextPageToken field (starting from first , except the last page,as this is the last page ) and prevPageToken (starting from second page, as there will be no prev page for the first page) field in response to the request.
Now we can use these values (nextPageToken/prevPageToken) to fetch records for the next or prev 50 records by passing the value to the query parameter
pageToken = < value of nextPageToken for the next set of records>
or < for prev use prevPageToken>.
In short, Add the pageToken param to the subsequent requests till the count equals pageInfo.totalResults !!!
Thanks!!!
Use the nextPageToken to get the next resultset. There is some restrictions, the API can only return max of 50 restultet at a time. But using the nexPageToken element you can get the next 50 resultset
{
"kind": "youtube#playlistItemListResponse",
"etag": "\"iDqJ1j7zKs4x3o3ZsFlBOwgWAHU/FSbRmodfOD2HSQzA29X7Tn2Mupc\"",
"
nextPageToken": "CAIQAA"
"pageInfo": {
"totalResults": 199,
"resultsPerPage": 2
},
"items": [
is anyone know, how to exclude some topics with specified type(s) using search api and mql?
For example i'm try to find all topics "Voodoo People", and exclude only those, that have composition and release types, and sort result by score desc: http://tinyurl.com/3tjkb7y.
Sorting work perfect, but i can't find functionality for excluding :(
I'm try to use mql_filter: http://tinyurl.com/644xkow, but releases still there.
And one more question: i see in type_strict param possible values: "all", "any", "should". But there is no value "not" or "not in". Is needed result can be obtained in any other way?
The syntax that you're looking for is "optional" : "forbidden". In your query that would look like this:
[{
"search": {
"query": "Voodoo People",
"score": null,
"mql_filter": [{
"type": {
"id": "/music/release",
"optional": "forbidden"
}
}]
},
"name": null,
"id": null,
"type": [],
"/common/topic/notable_for": {
},
"limit": 15,
"sort": "-search.score"
}]
I am accessing the facebook api and using the json.net library (newtonsoft.json.net)
I declare a Jobject to parse the content and look for the specific elements and get their values. Everything works fine for the first few but then I get this unexplained nullexception error " (Object reference not set to an instance of an object)
Now I took a look at the declaration but cannot see how to change it. Any help appreciated:
Dim jobj as JObject = JObject.Parse(responseData)
message = jobj("message").tostring
The error occurs at the last line above.I check to see if message is null and then look for the next desired field as follows
catch exception..
dim jobj2 as JObject = JObject.parse(responseData)
description = jobj2("description").tostring
JSON responsedata:
{
"id": "5281959998_126883980715630",
"from": {
"name": "The New York Times",
"category": "Company",
"id": "5281959998"
},
"picture": "http://external.ak.fbcdn.net /safe_image.php?d=e207958ca7563bff0cdccf9631dfe488&w=
90&h=90&url=http\u00253A\u00252F\u00252Fgraphics8.nytimes.com\u00252Fimages\u00252F2011\u00252F02\u00252F04\u00252Fbusiness\u00252FMadoff\u00252FMadoff-thumbStandard.jpg",
"link": "http://nyti.ms/hirbn0",
"name": "JPMorgan Said to Have Doubted Madoff Long Before His Scheme Was Revealed",
"caption": "nyti.ms",
"description": "Newly unsealed court documents show that bank
executives were suspicious of Bernard Madoff\u2019s accounts
and steered clients away from him but did not alert regulators.",
"icon": "http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/rsrc.php/yD/r/aS8ecmYRys0.gif",
"type": "link",
"created_time": "2011-02-04T16:09:03+0000",
"updated_time": "2011-02-06T20:09:51+0000",
"likes": {
"data": [
{
"name": "Siege Ind.",
"category": "Product/service",
"id": "152646224787462"
},
{
"name": "Lindsey Souter",
"id": "100000466998283"
},
This is one example where "message" does not appear in the first few lines but appears later. So what I do is look for position of message and description and which ever is first go and get that and if I get an error or the fields do not return anything, I try and parse by regex and even that is not working right.
Well, presumably jobj("message") has returned Nothing, which will happen if jobj doesn't have a message property. If you think this is incorrect, please post a short but complete piece of JSON to help us investigate.
(Is there any reason why you're declaring message and assigning it a value on the second line, only to overwrite that value on the third line?)