From the YouTube API docs: 403 Forbidden: The permissions associated with the request are not sufficient to download the caption track. The request might not be properly authorized, or the video order might not have enabled third-party contributions for this caption.
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
I fought with this just two days ago. Turns out it IS possible, it’s just undocumented and works a bit differently than you’d expect: Once I create the credentials in developers console, they will be associated to the Google Account and not to the Brand Accounts. I had the same exact misconception when I first … Read more
According to the official support staff, a given channel may have associated an URL of form: https://www.youtube.com/c/CUSTOM_NAME. In such a case, the respective channel’s customUrl property is CUSTOM_NAME. Now, your problem may be reformulated as follows: Given a CUSTOM_NAME for which the URL above points to an existing channel, is there a procedure that is … Read more
badRequest (400) uploadLimitExceeded The user has exceeded the number of videos they may upload. This isn’t a project based quota which would have been upgraded. This is a user based quota which can not be upgraded. It means that the user in question has exceed their upload limit for the day. The YouTube API has … Read more
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
The channels#list method will return a JSON with some information about the channel, including the playlist ID for the “uploads” playlist: https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/channels?part=contentDetails&forUsername=OneDirectionVEVO&key={YOUR_API_KEY} With the playlist ID you can get the videos with the playlistItems#list method: https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/playlistItems?part=snippet&playlistId=UUbW18JZRgko_mOGm5er8Yzg&key={YOUR_API_KEY} You can test those at the end of the documentation pages.
According to the official YouTube Data API docs, the only way to obtain the subscriber count of a given channel is through the following properties: statistics.subscriberCount (unsigned long) The number of subscribers that the channel has. This value is rounded down to three significant figures. Please see the Revision History or the YouTube Help Center … Read more
Taking into account the DTOS docs, it’s very likely that you exceeded 90 days of inactivity w.r.t. your API credentials: Inactivity YouTube reserves the right to disable or curtail your access to, or use of, specific YouTube API Services if your API Project has been inactive for 90 consecutive days. For example, YouTube could revoke … Read more
The solution to this problem can either be forcing the API to extract metadata more than 20000 videos from a channel or specifying a time period during which video was uploaded. That way, the code can be run again and again for multiple time periods to extract metadata for all videos. I tried this without … Read more