How can I efficiently retrieve a list of channels that a Vimeo video is listed in from the Advanced Vimeo API?
The Advanced Vimeo API provides the methods channels.addVideo and channels.removeVideo for managing the channels a video belongs to. Also, the channels.getVideos method is provided for retrieving the list of videos belonging to a channel.
However, there is no videos.getChannels method. This means that in order to find all the channels a video is included in one would need to call channels.getVideos (possibly more than once if the channel has more than 50 videos) for each channel of interest. This seems terribly inefficient.
From what I have seen so far it has not been implemented into v1, but will be added into v2. I am still looking to see if there is an alternative
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take a look at this page because they have this method vimeo.channels.getAll
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I know this will get you a list of channels, from there I dont know if you can compare that to the video to make a list of channels that the video is in. I'm still looking.
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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 am currently creating a youtube downloader and I have the code to retrieve video thumbnails, however I want to find out a way to retrieve the video title and possibly the video size etc. If anyone can help please answer :D
I would concider you use version 3 of the Youtube API. I don't suggest parsing the html of a youtube page, you never know when they will change the format and you'll be downloading too much information. The API is much more stable.
If you look at the video section .
https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/videos?id=BaW_jenozKc&part=snippet
(I can't test it on this computer)
By changing the part (or adding multiple part) you can get all the information you need about a video. Since the result is returned in json, you can use it with pretty much any programming language.
Also, read the Gettting Started. Youtube limits the number of query unless you register your application and get a developper key.
You need to read the .NET YouTube API documentation, specifically the YouTube API v2.0 – Retrieving Data for a Single Video section.
You will need to query for a single video by the video's ID and then the pieces of data in the ATOM feed that comes back to you are:
feed/entry/Title for the title of the video
feed/entry/media:group/yt:duration for the length of the video
There does not appear to be a value returned for the size of the video, however.
Try the youtube API:-
https://www.youtube.com/get_video_info?video_id=BaW_jenozKc
It should return something along the lines of:-
"&title=youtube-dl+test+video+%22%27%2F%5C%C3%A4%E2%86%AD%F0%9D%95%90".
Credits to youtube-dl:-
https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py
I want to know which playlists contain a certain video. The opposite is easy: find which video's are in a playlist, but I don't want that.
I can already have YT do this via the following route, but that's stupid and slow:
get channelId from video data (videos?id=...)
get playlists from channelId (playlists?channelId=...)
loop through all playlists and find all their videos (playlistItems?playlistId=...)
Like I said: stupid and slow. These steps are possible, because I only want playlists authored by the video's author. (Otherwise I'd have to download all of YT.)
What I'm looking for, sort of, is a request: playlists?videoId=..., but of course that doesn't exist.
Is there a better way than my 3 steps?
PS. I've created the script to use my 3 steps, but it's A LOT of requests. That and the playlists don't seem to have usable playlist ID's... I need the ID that the browser uses to show the playlist GUI style.
As of now, the Youtube API does not support a call like this, and in my opinion never will. This is probably an intentional decision by Youtube to hide the playlists, even the YT Analytics API doesn't show how many lists use your video.
It seems the way you do it is the only workaround - in case you only need the playlists for one specific user.
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.
I asked in this question how to see how many views a Youtube playlist has. Unfortunately, it has been removed from the UI. Can I retrieve Youtube playlist views through the Youtube API?
For now, I think, there is no way to get round it in API requests. According to YouTube's Playlist Documentation, it does not provide a statistics parameter which is responsible for providing various stats about videos. I was also looking for a similar use case and I came across this question. Maybe someone else can find a (hackable-)way along the way.