One way of detecting if a YouTube video ID is a Short without even using the API is to try a HEAD HTTP request to the /shorts/ version of the URL and see if it redirects you. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/hKwrn5-7FjQ is a Short and if you visit that URL, you’ll get an HTTP status code of 200 … Read more
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
Found the answer in YouTube’s API Blog here: http://apiblog.youtube.com/2013/06/google-page-identities-and-youtube-api.html According to this as I’m using Android with OAuth2 there is no native Android account switcher, and the then the API will choose the “wrong” channel in some cases, or even no channel (e.g., if the personal account doesn’t have a channel). So I’ve got two … Read more
Since the question only specified that Search API quotas should not be used in finding out if the channel is streaming, I thought I would share a sort of work-around method. It might require a bit more work than a simple API call, but it reduces API quota use to practically nothing: I used a … Read more
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
As always YouTube APIs doesn’t provide access to a basic feature but here is a workaround: The following answer is similar to the one I wrote about retrieving Unique viewers from the Audience tab. Go on your Video analytics interface in YouTube Studio. Open the Web Developer Tools Network tab of your web-browser (by using … Read more
Indeed there’s the possibility to save your credentials object the first time running successfully an OAuth authorization/authentication flow; then to load the credentials object from that file each time running the program for the n-th time, where n >= 2. Here is how I recommend to structure your code: import os, pickle from google_auth_oauthlib.flow import … Read more
It seems indeed a bug, but, as far as I know, the site for post about bugs with the YouTube APIs is: Issue Tracker1. The following link allows you create an entry on Issue Tracker. It is worth check first if entries exists with the similar issue you’re facing and if you find related entries … Read more
Issue is, we can’t really retrieve all the comments of every video. https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/134912604 We currently don’t support paging through the whole stream. So there’s no way to retrieve all the 1000+ commentThreads that you have for that video
The problem is that the gapi.client.load method takes a bit of time to complete, and it is asynchronous, so your page (which you’ve set up to be synchronous) is going on and running the searchA() method before the youtube library is fully loaded. There are two ways around this. One is to use the callback … Read more