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pythonyoutube-data-api
nike01705
nike01705

Reputation: 47

How to tell if a YouTube video is live for use YouTube Data API

I can judge whether this video is live by judging whether there is liveStreamingDetails in the collected data.

if 'liveStreamingDetails' in video_data:
    video_type = 'live'

But doing so will treat the premiere video as a live broadcast.

How to avoid this?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1268

Answers (2)

nike01705
nike01705

Reputation: 47

I managed to find a way to distinguish whether a video is live or premiered.

I refer to the answer from Use beautifulsoup to get a youtube video‘s information.

from requests_html import HTMLSession
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

video_url = "YouTube Url"
session = HTMLSession()
response = session.get(video_url)
response.html.render(sleep=3)
soup = BeautifulSoup(response.html.html, "lxml")

if soup.select_one('#info-strings').text[:8] == 'Streamed':
    video_type = 'live'
else:
    video_type = 'video'

Upvotes: 1

Benjamin Loison
Benjamin Loison

Reputation: 5612

As far as I tested, the liveStreamingDetails:concurrentViewers entry is missing for premiere videos being broadcasted. So you can check, using for instance Videos: list, if this entry is part of the response to know whether or not the video is a livestream being broadcasted or a premiere being broadcasted.

Upvotes: 0

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