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AdamHurwitz
AdamHurwitz

Reputation: 10384

YouTube API v3 Search List - Querying Multiple Channel IDs Not Working

When including multiple YouTube channel ids the response does not return a result.

Expected

Returning video results from multiple channel ids with the API request.

Request

GET https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search?part=snippet&channelId=UCiAW4HQiYjpPmyi4v905u1A%2C+UCrFCDzgIucPi7x_OzsYefWQ&key={YOUR_API_KEY}

Observed

Response

The response is empty.

{
 "kind": "youtube#searchListResponse",
 "etag": "\"XpPGQXPnxQJhLgs6enD_n8JR4Qk/-f6JA5_OcXz2RWuH1mpAA2_9mM8\"",
 "regionCode": "US",
 "pageInfo": {
  "totalResults": 0,
  "resultsPerPage": 5
 },
 "items": [
 ]
}

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1348

Answers (1)

Wishes
Wishes

Reputation: 61

Channel's request accepts multiple channel IDs like below: https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/channels?part=snippet&id=UCiAW4HQiYjpPmyi4v905u1A%2CUCrFCDzgIucPi7x_OzsYefWQ&key={YOUR_API_KEY}

But nowadays there no way to get video IDs directly from channels API response, you have to set "part=snippet%2CcontentDetails" in channel request part, and then fetch ID of list uploaded videos in response ("relatedPlaylists" -> "uploads"). Then you can get whole channel's videos ID's by playListItems request: https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/playlistItems

Upvotes: 2

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