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IgorM
IgorM

Reputation: 1356

How to implement youtube.search.list with Node.js

I'm trying to make youtube.search.list working with Node.js. It looks like I can successfully authenticate with YouTube API v.3.0 but when I run youtube.search.list I get empty result set.

There is either stupid error in the code or I make incorrect request on YouTube API.

Here is the code:

var google = require('googleapis');
var youtubeV3 = google.youtube({ version: 'v3', auth: 'MY_API_KEY' });

var request = youtubeV3.search.list({
    part: 'snippet',
    type: 'video',
    q: 'Cat',
    maxResults: 50,
    order: 'date',
    safeSearch: 'moderate',
    videoEmbeddable: true
});

// console.log('Here we start search');
for (var i in request.items) {
    var item = request.items[i];
    console.log('Title: ', item.id.videoId, item.snippet.title);
}

In order to check what I get back from API I run console.log(request) and get empty object.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2202

Answers (1)

Sirko
Sirko

Reputation: 74046

Fiddeling around with the API a little, I came up with the following, working code:

var google = require('googleapis'),
    youtubeV3 = google.youtube( { version: 'v3', auth: 'API_KEY' } );

var request =  youtubeV3.search.list({
    part: 'snippet',
    type: 'video',
    q: 'Cat',
    maxResults: 50,
    order: 'date',
    safeSearch: 'moderate',
    videoEmbeddable: true
}, (err,response) => {
  // your code here
});

Despite the documentation here telling one to use execute, the repository of google apis on Github tells one to use that node callback pattern, which turned out to work.

Upvotes: 2

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