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xStoryTeller
xStoryTeller

Reputation: 51

Youtube API v3 returning less then requested results

I'm using the YouTube API to request a set of videos I have maxResults set to 50 and in the returned object I get the following information: [totalResults] => 271 [resultsPerPage] => 50. All fine, but the object only holds 3 videos. When I use a search term with more results it does show more but still not the 50 that it should, only when a lot of videos are returned (say 1000+) then I get 50 in the object, what is going on here?

Here's my request code:

$searchResponse = $youtube->search->listSearch('id,snippet', array(
'q' => "Let's Play The Legend of Zelda",
'maxResults' => 50,
'type' => 'video',
'videoEmbeddable' => 'true',
'publishedAfter' => date("Y-m-d\TH:i:sP",strtotime('-2 days')),
'videoDuration' => 'short',
'videoDefinition' => 'high',
'order' => 'viewCount',
));

And here is my returned object:

Array
(
    ...
    [pageInfo] => Array
        (
            [totalResults] => 972
            [resultsPerPage] => 50
        )
    [items] => Array
        (
            [0] => Array
            ...
            [7] => Array
        )
)

As you can see it only hold 8 videos while it has 972 results and should give me 50.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1005

Answers (1)

barell
barell

Reputation: 1489

This is an issue with YouTube API. The totalResults value may returns not accurate numbers and it shouldn't be used to check how many results are in the response.

Issue - API Member reply

it's unfortunately a known issue, and in general, I would recommend treating totalResults as a very rough guide and ensure that you don't build any paging logic around it. The presence/absence of a nextPageToken in a response should be the only thing which indicates whether there are additional results available.

Source: https://code.google.com/p/gdata-issues/issues/detail?id=6125&can=1

What can you do in this situation is to use count() function to check how many items you've got.

Upvotes: 5

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