youtube-data-api

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

YouTube API v3 – List uploaded videos

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If you are using the client then Greg’s answer is correct. To do the same thing with basic requests you make the following 2 requests: GET https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/channels with parameters: part=contentDetails mine=true key={YOUR_API_KEY} and header: Authorization: Bearer {Your access token} From this you will get a JSON response like so: { “kind”: “youtube#channelListResponse”, “etag”: “\”some-string\””, “pageInfo”: … Read more

How to only find videos that can be played on mobile?

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You can find various search parameter listed in YouTube API v2.0 – API Query Parameters like license, restriction, paid_content that can help filter videos that are restricted for such specific reason. Also, if you can use YouTube API v3.0 there is one more option videoSyndicated that will restrict a search to only videos that can … Read more

How to get the mp4 url for Youtube videos using Youtube v3 API

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i made a very simple API : https://gist.github.com/egyjs/9e60f1ae3168c38cc0f0054c15cd6a83 As Example: YouTube Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=**YGCLs9Bt_KY** now to get the Direct link you need to call the api , like this (change example.com to your site) : https://example.com/?url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGCLs9Bt_KY returns: [ { “url”: “https:\/\/r10—sn-aigllnlr.googlevideo.com\/videoplayback?key=yt6&signature=81D86D3BC3D34D8A3B865464BE7BC54F34C1B0BC.7316033C2DD2F65E4D345CFA890257B63D7FE2A2&mt=1522999783&expire=1523021537&sparams=dur%2Cei%2Cid%2Cinitcwndbps%2Cip%2Cipbits%2Citag%2Clmt%2Cmime%2Cmm%2Cmn%2Cms%2Cmv%2Cpl%2Cratebypass%2Crequiressl%2Csource%2Cexpire&requiressl=yes&ei=gSLHWvuxDMOUVYaTqYgB&dur=244.204&pl=22&itag=22&ip=185.27.134.50&lmt=1522960451860848&id=o-AAoaDzyDCVXS404wfqZoCIdolGU-NM3-4yDxC0t868iL&ratebypass=yes&ms=au%2Conr&fvip=2&source=youtube&mv=m&ipbits=0&mm=31%2C26&mn=sn-aigllnlr%2Csn-5hne6nsy&mime=video%2Fmp4&c=WEB&initcwndbps=710000”, “quality”: “hd720”, “itag”: “22”, “type”: “video\/mp4; codecs=\”avc1.64001F, mp4a.40.2\”” }, { “url”: “https:\/\/r10—sn-aigllnlr.googlevideo.com\/videoplayback?key=yt6&mt=1522999783&gir=yes&expire=1523021537&sparams=clen%2Cdur%2Cei%2Cgir%2Cid%2Cinitcwndbps%2Cip%2Cipbits%2Citag%2Clmt%2Cmime%2Cmm%2Cmn%2Cms%2Cmv%2Cpl%2Cratebypass%2Crequiressl%2Csource%2Cexpire&itag=43&ratebypass=yes&fvip=2&ipbits=0&mime=video%2Fwebm&initcwndbps=710000&signature=71DC48B9BF4B2E3ED46FE0A4CD36FE027DACF31E.4624B7B4BCB947336CEB029E9958B136F79759EB&clen=24203231&requiressl=yes&dur=0.000&pl=22&ip=185.27.134.50&lmt=1522961642553275&ei=gSLHWvuxDMOUVYaTqYgB&ms=au%2Conr&source=youtube&mv=m&id=o-AAoaDzyDCVXS404wfqZoCIdolGU-NM3-4yDxC0t868iL&mm=31%2C26&mn=sn-aigllnlr%2Csn-5hne6nsy&c=WEB”, “quality”: “medium”, … Read more

YouTube maxresdefault thumbnails

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You can use YouTube Data API to retrieve video thumbnails, caption, description, rating, statistics and more. With the YouTube Data API, you can add a variety of YouTube features to your application. For the high quality version of the thumbnail use a url similar to this: http://img.youtube.com/vi/<insert-youtube-video-id-here>/hqdefault.jpg There is also a medium quality version of … Read more

How to get all comments on a YouTube video?

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Believe me it works https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/commentThreads?key=******************&textFormat=plainText&part=snippet&videoId=kffacxfA7G4&maxResults=50 Key will be provided by the google developer console and 50 denotes 50 comments in form of a json, video id is the id of the video. For any type of queries comment below.

How can I get the actual video URL of a YouTube live stream?

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You need to get the HLS m3u8 playlist files from the video’s manifest. There are ways to do this by hand, but for simplicity I’ll be using the youtube-dl tool to get this information. I’ll be using this live stream as an example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Gtc-GtLlTk First, get the formats of the video: ➜ ~ youtube-dl –list-formats … Read more

cURL error 60: SSL certificate prblm: unable to get local issuer certificate [duplicate]

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If you are on Windows using Xampp, I am stealing a better answer from here, would be helpful if Google shows you this question first. Download and extract for cacert.pem here (a clean file format/data) https://curl.haxx.se/docs/caextract.html Put it in : C:\xampp\php\extras\ssl\cacert.pem Add this line to your php.ini curl.cainfo = “C:\xampp\php\extras\ssl\cacert.pem” restart your webserver/Apache