YouTube API to fetch all videos on a channel

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We need a video list by channel name of YouTube  using the API    We can get a channel list  only channel name  by using the below API   https   gdata youtube com feeds api channels v 2 amp q tendulkar   Below is a direct link of channels  https   www youtube com channel UCqAEtEr0A0Eo2IVcuWBfB9g   Or  WWW YouTube com channel HC-8jgBP-4rlI   Now  we need videos of channel    UCqAEtEr0A0Eo2IVcuWBfB9g or HC-8jgBP-4rlI   We tried  https   gdata youtube com feeds api videos v 2 amp uploader partner amp User UC7Xayrf2k0NZiz3S04WuDNQ  https   gdata youtube com feeds api videos v 2 amp uploader partner amp q UC7Xayrf2k0NZiz3S04WuDNQ  But  it does not help   We need all the videos posted on the channel  Videos uploaded to a channel can be from multiple users thus I don t think providing a user parameter would help

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Using API version 2  which is deprecated  the URL for uploads  of channel UCqAEtEr0A0Eo2IVcuWBfB9g  is   https   gdata youtube com feeds users UCqAEtEr0A0Eo2IVcuWBfB9g uploads  There is an API version 3

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Below is a Python alternative that does not require any special packages  By providing the channel id it returns a list of video links for that channel  Please note that you need an API Key for it to work   import urllib import json  def get all video in channel channel id       api key   YOUR API KEY      base video url    https   www youtube com watch v       base search url    https   www googleapis com youtube v3 search        first url   base search url  key    amp channelId    amp part snippet id amp order date amp maxResults 25  format api key  channel id       video links          url   first url     while True          inp   urllib urlopen url          resp   json load inp           for i in resp  items                if i  id    kind       youtube video                   video links append base video url   i  id    videoId             try              next page token   resp  nextPageToken               url   first url     amp pageToken     format next page token          except              break     return video links

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To get channels list    Get Channels list by forUserName    https   www googleapis com youtube v3 channels part snippet contentDetails statistics amp forUsername Apple amp key   Get channels list by channel id   https   www googleapis com youtube v3 channels  part snippet contentDetails statistics amp id UCE M8A5yxnLfW0KghEeajjw amp key   Get Channel sections   https   www googleapis com youtube v3 channelSections part snippet contentDetails amp channelId UCE M8A5yxnLfW0KghEeajjw amp key   To get Playlists    Get Playlists by Channel ID   https   www googleapis com youtube v3 playlists part snippet contentDetails amp channelId UCq-Fj5jknLsUf-MWSy4 brA amp maxResults 50 amp key   Get Playlists by Channel ID with pageToken   https   www googleapis com youtube v3 playlists part snippet contentDetails amp channelId UCq-Fj5jknLsUf-MWSy4 brA amp maxResults 50 amp key  amp pageToken CDIQAA  To get PlaylistItems    Get PlaylistItems list by PlayListId   https   www googleapis com youtube v3 playlistItems part snippet contentDetails amp maxResults 25 amp playlistId PLHFlHpPjgk70Yv3kxQvkDEO5n5tMQia5I amp key   To get videos    Get videos list by video id   https   www googleapis com youtube v3 videos part snippet contentDetails statistics amp id YxLCwfA1cLw amp key   Get videos list by multiple videos id   https   www googleapis com youtube v3 videos part snippet contentDetails statistics amp id YxLCwfA1cLw Qgy6LaO3SB0 7yPJXGO2Dcw amp key   Get comments list  Get Comment list by video ID   https   www googleapis com youtube v3 commentThreads part snippet replies amp videoId el    kQak amp key A          k  Get Comment list by channel ID   https   www googleapis com youtube v3 commentThreads part snippet replies amp channelId U     Q amp key AI        k  Get Comment list by allThreadsRelatedToChannelId   https   www googleapis com youtube v3 commentThreads part snippet replies amp allThreadsRelatedToChannelId UC     ntcQ amp key AI     k  Here all api s are Get approach   Based on channel id we con t get all videos directly  that s the important point here    For integration https   developers google com youtube v3 quickstart ios ver swift

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Since everyone answering this question has problems due to the 500 video limit here s an alternate solution using youtube dl in Python 3  Also  no API key is needed    Install youtube dl  sudo pip3 install youtube-dl Find out your target channel s channel id  The ID is going to start with UC  Replace the C for Channel with U for Upload  i e  UU      this is the upload playlist  Use the playlist downloader feature from youtube-dl  Ideally you do NOT want to download every video in the playlist which is the default  but only the metadata    Example  warning -- takes tens of minutes    import youtube dl  pickle                 UCVTyTA7-g9nopHeHbeuvpRA is the channel id  1517  videos  PLAYLIST ID    UUVTyTA7-g9nopHeHbeuvpRA     Late Night with Seth Meyers  with youtube dl YoutubeDL   ignoreerrors   True   as ydl       playd   ydl extract info PLAYLIST ID  download False       with open  playlist pickle    wb   as f          pickle dump playd  f  pickle HIGHEST PROTOCOL       vids    vid for vid in playd  entries   if  A Closer Look  in vid  title        print sum  Trump  in vid  title   for vid in vids        len vids

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Recently I had to retrieve all videos from a channel  and according to YouTube developer documentation  https   developers google com youtube v3 docs playlistItems list  function playlistItemsListByPlaylistId  service   part   params         params   array filter  params        response    service- gt playlistItems- gt listPlaylistItems           part           params             print r  response      playlistItemsListByPlaylistId  service       snippet contentDetails       array  maxResults    gt  25   playlistId    gt   id of  uploads  playlist       Where  service is your Google Service YouTube object   So you have to fetch information from the channel to retrieve the  uploads  playlist that actually has all the videos uploaded by the channel  https   developers google com youtube v3 docs channels list  If new with this API  I highly recommend to turn the code sample from the default snippet to the full sample   So the basic code to retrieve all videos from a channel can be   class YouTube       const       DEV KEY    YOUR DEVELOPPER KEY       private      client      private      youtube      private      lastChannel       public function   construct                  this- gt client   new Google Client             this- gt client- gt setDeveloperKey self  DEV KEY            this- gt youtube   new Google Service YouTube  this- gt client            this- gt lastChannel   false             public function getChannelInfoFromName  channel name                if   this- gt lastChannel  amp  amp   this- gt lastChannel  modelData    items   0   snippet    title       channel name                        return  this- gt lastChannel                     this- gt lastChannel    this- gt youtube- gt channels- gt listChannels  snippet  contentDetails  statistics   array               forUsername    gt   channel name                      return   this- gt lastChannel              public function getVideosFromChannelName  channel name   max result   5                 this- gt getChannelInfoFromName  channel name            params                  playlistId    gt   this- gt lastChannel  modelData    items   0   contentDetails    relatedPlaylists    uploads                 maxResults   gt   max result                     return   this- gt youtube- gt playlistItems- gt listPlaylistItems  snippet contentDetails    params              yt   new YouTube    echo   lt pre gt     print r  yt- gt getVideosFromChannelName  CHANNEL NAME    true      lt  pre gt

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You need to look at the YouTube Data API  You will find there documentation about how the API can be accessed  You can also find client libraries   You could also make the requests yourself  Here is an example URL that retrieves the latest videos from a channel   https   www googleapis com youtube v3 search key  your key here  amp channelId  channel id here  amp part snippet id amp order date amp maxResults 20   After that you will receive a JSON with video ids and details  and you can construct your video URL like this   http   www youtube com watch v  video id here

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As the documentation states  link   you can use the channel resource type and operation List to get all the videos in an channel  This operation must be performed using argument  channel id

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Sample solution in Python  Help taken from this video  video Like many other answers  upload id is to be retrieved from the channel id first    import urllib request import json  key    YOUR YOUTUBE API v3 BROWSER KEY    List of channels   mention if you are pasting channel id or username -  id  or  forUsername  ytids      bbcnews   forUsername     UCjq4pjKj9X4W9i7UnYShpVg   id     newstitles      for ytid ytparam in ytids      urld    https   www googleapis com youtube v3 channels part contentDetails   ytparam     ytid   key   key     with urllib request urlopen urld  as url          datad   json loads url read        uploadsdet   datad  items        get upload id from channel id     uploadid   uploadsdet 0   contentDetails    relatedPlaylists    uploads         retrieve list     urld    https   www googleapis com youtube v3 playlistItems part snippet 2CcontentDetails maxResults 50 playlistId   uploadid   key   key     with urllib request urlopen urld  as url          datad   json loads url read         for data in datad  items            ntitle    data  snippet    title           nlink   data  contentDetails    videoId           newstitles append  nlink ntitle    for link title in newstitles      print link  title

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Here is the code that will return all video ids under your channel    lt  php       baseUrl    https   www googleapis com youtube v3           https   developers google com youtube v3 getting-started      apiKey    API KEY          If you don t know the channel ID see below      channelId    CHANNEL ID         params              id   gt   channelId           part   gt   contentDetails            key   gt   apiKey             url    baseUrl    channels     http build query  params        json   json decode file get contents  url   true         playlist    json  items   0   contentDetails    relatedPlaylists    uploads          params              part   gt   snippet            playlistId    gt   playlist           maxResults   gt   50            key   gt   apiKey             url    baseUrl    playlistItems     http build query  params        json   json decode file get contents  url   true         videos           foreach  json  items   as  video           videos      video  snippet    resourceId    videoId         while isset  json  nextPageToken               nextUrl    url     amp pageToken      json  nextPageToken             json   json decode file get contents  nextUrl   true           foreach  json  items   as  video               videos      video  snippet    resourceId    videoId              print r  videos        Note  You can get channel id at   https   www youtube com account advanced after logged in

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From https   stackoverflow com a 65440501 2585501  This method is especially useful if a  the channel has more than 50 videos or if b  desire youtube video ids formatted in a flat txt list   Obtain a Youtube API v3 key  see https   stackoverflow com a 65440324 2585501  Obtain the Youtube Channel ID of the channel  see https   stackoverflow com a 16326307 2585501  Obtain the Uploads Playlist ID of the channel  https   www googleapis com youtube v3 channels id  channel Id  amp key  API key  amp part contentDetails  based on https   www youtube com watch v RjUlmco7v2M  Install youtube-dl  e g  pip3 install --upgrade youtube-dl or sudo apt-get install youtube-dl  Download the Uploads Playlist using youtube-dl  youtube-dl -j --flat-playlist  quot https    lt yourYoutubePlaylist gt  quot    jq -r   id    sed  s   https   youtu be     gt  videoList txt  see https   superuser com questions 1341684 youtube-dl-how-download-only-the-playlist-not-the-files-therein

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First  you need to get the ID of the playlist that represents the uploads from the user channel   https   developers google com youtube v3 docs channels list try-it  You can specify the username with the forUsername  username  param  or specify mine true to get your own  you need to authenticate first    Include part contentDetails to see the playlists   GET https   www googleapis com youtube v3 channels part contentDetails amp forUsername jambrose42 amp key  YOUR API KEY   In the result  relatedPlaylists  will include  likes  and  uploads  playlists   Grab that  upload  playlist ID   Also note the  id  is your channelID for future reference    Next  get a list of videos in that playlist   https   developers google com youtube v3 docs playlistItems list try-it  Just drop in the playlistId   GET https   www googleapis com youtube v3 playlistItems part snippet 2CcontentDetails amp maxResults 50 amp playlistId UUpRmvjdu3ixew5ahydZ67uA amp key  YOUR API KEY

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Here is a video from Google Developers showing how to list all videos in a channel in v3 of the YouTube API   There are two steps    Query Channels to get the  uploads  Id  eg https   www googleapis com youtube v3 channels id  channel Id  amp key  API key  amp part contentDetails Use this  uploads  Id to query PlaylistItems to get the list of videos  eg https   www googleapis com youtube v3 playlistItems playlistId   uploads  Id  amp key  API key  amp part snippet amp maxResults 50

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Try with like the following  It may help you   https   gdata youtube com feeds api videos author cnn amp v 2 amp orderby updated amp alt jsonc amp q news  Here author as you can specify your channel name and  q  as you can give your search key word

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Just in three steps    Subscriptions  list -   https   www googleapis com youtube v3 subscriptions part snippet amp maxResults 50 amp mine true amp access token  oauth token  Channels  list -  https   www googleapis com youtube v3 channels part contentDetails amp id  channel id  amp key  YOUR API KEY  PlaylistItems  list -  https   www googleapis com youtube v3 playlistItems part snippet amp playlistId  playlist id  amp key  YOUR API KEY

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Thanks to the references shared here and elsewhere  I ve made an online script   tool that one can use to obtain all videos of a channel   It combines API calls to youtube channels list  playlistItems  videos  It uses recursive functions to make the asynchronous callbacks run the next iteration upon getting a valid response   This also serves to limit the actual number of requests made at a time  hence keeping you safe from violating YouTube API rules  Sharing shortened snippets and then a link to the full code  I got around the 50 max results per call limitation by using the nextPageToken value that comes in the response to fetch the next 50 results and so on   function getVideos nextPageToken  vidsDone  params          getJSON  https   www googleapis com youtube v3 playlistItems             key  params accessKey          part   snippet           maxResults  50          playlistId  params playlistId          fields   items snippet publishedAt  resourceId videoId  title    nextPageToken           pageToken    nextPageToken                           function data                   commands to process JSON variable  extract the 50 videos info              if   vidsDone  lt  params vidslimit                        Recursive  the function is calling itself if                    all videos haven t been loaded yet                 getVideos  data nextPageToken  vidsDone  params                               else                       Closing actions to do once we have listed the videos needed                             This got a basic listing of the videos  including id  title  date of publishing and similar  But to get more detail of each video like view counts and likes  one has to make API calls to videos      Looping through an array of video id s function fetchViddetails i          getJSON  https   www googleapis com youtube v3 videos             key  document getElementById  accesskey   value          part   snippet statistics           id  vidsList i             function data                    Commands to process JSON variable  extract the video                information and push it to a global array             if  i  lt  vidsList length - 1                    fetchViddetails i 1     Recursive  calls itself if the                                                    list isn t over                      See the full code here  and live version here   Edit  fixed github link  Edit  Dependencies  JQuery  Papa parse

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