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Richard Green
Richard Green

Reputation: 58

YouTube API v3 - Determine if a user has watched a video?

I'm trying to make a google apps script which (among other things) needs remove watched videos from YouTube playlists using the YouTube API (v3).

I tried getting the watch history with YouTube.playlistItems.list(); but since a recent update to the API (September 2016) watch history is no longer available through the API.

Is there any other way to determine if a user has watched a specific video or not through the API?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 3676

Answers (2)

Muhammad Faiq
Muhammad Faiq

Reputation: 69

There is no builtin features , but you can get the time of watching duration by using the Event logs, EventId -1 is Start and EventId 0 is Finish, if duration is same or above assume to be has watched completely :P

EventId is a part of Youtube API

Upvotes: 1

Spencer Easton
Spencer Easton

Reputation: 5782

I don't think so. There was an open issue, but it was closed "WontFix"

https://code.google.com/p/gdata-issues/issues/detail?id=4642

Upvotes: 1

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