youtube-api

curl: Per-file Content-Type for multipart POST (YouTube API)

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First, you can specify the content-type for a part you upload by adding “;type=magic/string”. Like for example in your video case: curl -F “[email protected];type=video/mpeg4” [URL] (use –trace or –trace-ascii to verify that curl sends exactly what you want it to) … but this said, I’d guess that it is highly unlikely that the receiving server … Read more

Is there any way to get the live chat replay log/history for YouTube streaming video?

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Chat Downloader is a tool I developed to retrieve chat messages from livestreams, videos, clips and past broadcasts. No authentication needed! The recommended way to install is from PyPI using pip: pip install chat-downloader The program can then be accessed from the command line or using the Python module: Command line chat_downloader https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qap5aO4i9A For advanced … Read more

How to check if YouTube channel is streaming live

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You can do this by using search.list and specifying the channel ID, setting the type to video, and setting eventType to live. For example, when I searched for: https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search?part=snippet&channelId=UCXswCcAMb5bvEUIDEzXFGYg&type=video&eventType=live&key=[API_KEY] I got the following: { “kind”: “youtube#searchListResponse”, “etag”: “\”sGDdEsjSJ_SnACpEvVQ6MtTzkrI/gE5P_aKHWIIc6YSpRcOE57lf9oE\””, “pageInfo”: { “totalResults”: 1, “resultsPerPage”: 5 }, “items”: [ { “kind”: “youtube#searchResult”, “etag”: “\”sGDdEsjSJ_SnACpEvVQ6MtTzkrI/H-6Tm7-JewZC0-CW4ALwOiq9wjs\””, “id”: { “kind”: … Read more