CODEWITHSUNDEEP
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rhbc73

Reputation: 767

Can I use YouTube API to enable YouTube Live Streaming?

I'm developing a YouTube live streaming related program. I know there're APIs to create/list/delete broadcasts and live streams. But all these are assuming that YouTube Live Streaming is already enabled on your account.

I tried to but failed to find any API with which I can use to enable YouTube live streaming on my account. Is there such an API?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1339

Answers (1)

CptCam
CptCam

Reputation: 93

As far as I can tell, there is not. As you can see here: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2474026?hl=en, in order to create live events on youtube an account must be verified and in good standing.

If you are making the API requests using a YouTube account that fulfills these requirements you can use the YouTube Data API to create liveBroadcasts, otherwise you will likely receive an insufficientPermissions error. This error is detailed here: https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/live/docs/errors#youtube.liveBroadcasts.insert-insufficientPermissions-liveStreamingNotEnabled-permission.userNotEnabled

One potential way you could tell if an account is able to create live events programmatically would be to call the channels.list() method, and return the status. The status of the channels will have status.longUploadStatus. Long uploads also require an account to be verified and in good standing, so if this value returns allowed you likely have the permissions to work with live events. More details of this can be found in the YouTube Data API documentation.

Let me know if you find information to the contrary.

Upvotes: 5

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