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rbp
rbp

Reputation: 1898

can't list my own Youtube videos

I'm trying to get a list of the videos I've posted in YouTube

When using the explorer:

https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/search/list

it generated following query

GET https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search?part=snippet&forMine=true&key={YOUR_API_KEY}

and the following (400) response:

{
 "error": {
  "errors": [
   {
    "domain": "youtube.search",
    "reason": "invalidSearchFilter",
    "message": "Invalid combination of search filters and/or restrictions.",
    "locationType": "parameter",
    "location": ""
   }
  ],
  "code": 400,
  "message": "Invalid combination of search filters and/or restrictions."
 }
}

Upvotes: 2

Views: 965

Answers (2)

Chad Befus
Chad Befus

Reputation: 1968

This can be done making 2 requests to the Youtube v3 API:

  1. The first request you need to make for this is to get the id of your uploaded videos playlist:

    This is a GET request to url:

    "https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/channels"

    with headers:

    "Content-type": "application/json",
"Authorization": "Bearer %s" % {YOUR ACCESS TOKEN}

    and parameters:

    "part": "contentDetails",
"mine": "true",
"key": {YOUR APPLICATION KEY}

    From the response you want to access:

    response_body["items"][0][contentDetails][relatedPlaylists][uploads]

  2. The second request is to get all the videos you have in your uploads playlist.

    To get this start with a GET request to URL: 

    "https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/playlistItems"

    sending headers:

    "Content-type": "application/json",
"Authorization": "Bearer %s" % {YOUR AUTH TOKEN}

    and parameters:

    "part": "snippet", {Add other "parts" here like stats if you want that info.}
"maxResults": {MORE THAN 50? PAGINATION IS NEEDED / SEE BELOW},
"playlistId": {FROM ABOVE},
"key": {YOUR API KEY}

    The response will have your list of videos and their associated information.

    if (while) the response has response_body["nextPageToken"] in it, you need to resend the request with parameter "pageToken": {NEXT PAGE TOKEN} to get the rest of your paginated results.

Upvotes: 3

jlmcdonald
jlmcdonald

Reputation: 13667

When setting the forMine parameter, you also have to set the type parameter to video so that the API knows what kinds of resources to return.

Upvotes: 1

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