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Reputation: 639

YouTube Data API some videos do not return channel

I use the YouTube Data API to get some information from a query result (videos).

The most videos return their data correct. But some videos don't return their channel title (all other fields return correct anyway).

    com.google.api.services.youtube.YouTube.Search.List search = youtube.search().list("id,snippet");
    search.setKey(getString(R.string.APIKEYYOUTUBE));
    search.setQ("hi");
    search.setType("video");
    search.setFields("items(id/kind,id/videoId,snippet/title,snippet/thumbnails/medium/url,snippet/channelTitle,snippet/publishedAt)");
    search.setMaxResults(7);

        [...]

    String vId = rId.getVideoId();
    String test = singleVideo.getSnippet().getChannelTitle();

Example:

Second video returned:

vId = "Kgw9xKQX-dI"
test = "htmailru"

Third video returned :

vId = "Q_6XNufgvA4"
test = ""

But if I proof the third video ID in youtube it has (as expected) a channel title.

Any ideas?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 826

Answers (1)

Tyler C.
Tyler C.

Reputation: 673

It looks like this issue was reported almost two years ago, but unfortunately there hasn't yet been a response from Google. The reporter indicated that channelTitle returned blank whenever the channel title included a space. (In your example, the channel title for Q_6XNufgvA4 is "World's Best Videos," which indeed includes a space.)

https://code.google.com/p/gdata-issues/issues/detail?id=6104

Fortunately, as a workaround, channelTitle does appear to populate correctly when returned from videos.list and channels.list.

videos.list:

Using videoId from the search response

GET https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/videos?part=snippet&
id=Q_6XNufgvA4&
fields=items%2Fsnippet%2FchannelTitle&
key={YOUR_API_KEY}

returns

{
 "items": [
  {
   "snippet": {
    "channelTitle": "World's Best Videos"
   }
  }
 ]
}

channels.list:

You can get channelId from your search response (items/snippet/channelId) and send a request as follows.

GET https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/channels?part=snippet&
id=UCHqBLGGOvojeQswyJptjukA&
fields=items%2Fsnippet%2Ftitle&
key={YOUR_API_KEY}

returns

{
 "items": [
  {
   "snippet": {
    "title": "World's Best Videos"
   }
  }
 ]
}

Upvotes: 2

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