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Mike K.
Mike K.

Reputation: 690

YouTube API get list of videos with more than n views

The title basically says it all.

Can I retrieve a list of videos with more than 1B views, using YouTube API?

I couldn't find anything like that in the official docs.

The same story for likes/dislikes. Sorta making a collection of most viewed/liked/disliked videos.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1338

Answers (1)

Linda Lawton - DaImTo
Linda Lawton - DaImTo

Reputation: 117261

You cant specifflicly state that you want videos with over 1 billion views. However search.list does offer you the option to sort by view count.

curl \
  'https://youtube.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search?part=snippet&order=viewCount&type=video&fields=*&key=[YOUR_API_KEY]' \
  --header 'Accept: application/json' \
  --compressed

This should return to you the videos with the highest count.

You can also sort by rating which should be the likes. YouTube removed public dislikes so i doubt this is something you would be able to sort on.

Unfortunately the YouTube Data api is very limited. This is going to be the best you can do.

Upvotes: 3

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