YouTube API v3 – List uploaded videos

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:

1. 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": {
     "totalResults": 1,
     "resultsPerPage": 1
    },
    "items": [
     {
      "id": "some-id",
      "kind": "youtube#channel",
      "etag": "\"another-string\"",
      "contentDetails": {
       "relatedPlaylists": {
        "likes": "channel-id-for-your-likes",
        "favorites": "channel-id-for-your-favorites",
        "uploads": "channel-id-for-your-uploads",
        "watchHistory": "channel-id-for-your-watch-history",
        "watchLater": "channel-id-for-your-watch-later"
       }
      }
     }
    ]
   }
   

   From this you want to parse out the “uploads” channel-id.

2. GET https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/playlistItems

   with parameters:

   part=snippet
   maxResults=50
   playlistId={YOUR_UPLOAD_PLAYLIST_ID}
   key={YOUR_API_KEY}
   

   and headers:

   Authorization:  Bearer {YOUR_TOKEN}
   

   From this you will receive a JSON response like the following:

   {
    "kind": "youtube#playlistItemListResponse",
    "etag": "\"some-string\"",
    "pageInfo": {
     "totalResults": 1,
     "resultsPerPage": 50
    },
    "items": [
     {
   
      "id": "some-id",
      "kind": "youtube#playlistItem",
      "etag": "\"another-string\"",
      "snippet": {
       "publishedAt": "some-date",
       "channelId": "the-channel-id",
       "title": "video-title",
       "thumbnails": {
        "default": {
         "url": "thumbnail-address"
        },
        "medium": {
         "url": "thumbnail-address"
        },
        "high": {
         "url": "thumbnail-address"
        }
       },
       "playlistId": "upload-playlist-id",
       "position": 0,
       "resourceId": {
        "kind": "youtube#video",
        "videoId": "the-videos-id"
       }
      }
     }
    ]
   }
   

With this method you should be able to get the info using any language or even just curl. If you want more than the first 50 results, then you will have to do multiple queries using the second request and pass in page requests. More on this can be read at: http://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/playlistItems/list