How do I get video durations with YouTube API version 3

Question

I m using YouTube API v3 to search YouTube   https   developers google com youtube v3 docs search  As you can see  the response JSON doesn t contains video durations  Is there way to get video durations   Preferably not calling an API for each element in the result again  unless that s the only way to get durations

User · Answer

I wrote the following class to get YouTube video duration using the YouTube API v3 (it returns thumbnails as well):

class Youtube
{
    static $api_key = '<API_KEY>';
    static $api_base = 'https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/videos';
    static $thumbnail_base = 'https://i.ytimg.com/vi/';

    // $vid - video id in youtube
    // returns - video info
    public static function getVideoInfo($vid)
    {
        $params = array(
            'part' => 'contentDetails',
            'id' => $vid,
            'key' => self::$api_key,
        );

        $api_url = Youtube::$api_base . '?' . http_build_query($params);
        $result = json_decode(@file_get_contents($api_url), true);

        if(empty($result['items'][0]['contentDetails']))
            return null;
        $vinfo = $result['items'][0]['contentDetails'];

        $interval = new DateInterval($vinfo['duration']);
        $vinfo['duration_sec'] = $interval->h * 3600 + $interval->i * 60 + $interval->s;

        $vinfo['thumbnail']['default']       = self::$thumbnail_base . $vid . '/default.jpg';
        $vinfo['thumbnail']['mqDefault']     = self::$thumbnail_base . $vid . '/mqdefault.jpg';
        $vinfo['thumbnail']['hqDefault']     = self::$thumbnail_base . $vid . '/hqdefault.jpg';
        $vinfo['thumbnail']['sdDefault']     = self::$thumbnail_base . $vid . '/sddefault.jpg';
        $vinfo['thumbnail']['maxresDefault'] = self::$thumbnail_base . $vid . '/maxresdefault.jpg';

        return $vinfo;
    }
}

Please note that you'll need API_KEY to use the YouTube API:

Create a new project here: https://console.developers.google.com/project
Enable "YouTube Data API" under "APIs & auth" -> APIs
Create a new server key under "APIs & auth" -> Credentials

User · Answer

I got it    dur   file get contents  https   www googleapis com youtube v3 videos part contentDetails amp id  vId amp key dldfsd981asGhkxHxFf6JqyNrTqIeJ9sjMKFcX4      duration   json decode  dur  true   foreach   duration  items   as  vidTime         vTime   vidTime  contentDetails    duration        There it returns the time for YouTube API version 3  the key is made up by the way     I used  vId that I had gotten off of the returned list of the videos from the channel I am showing the videos from     It works  Google REALLY needs to include the duration in the snippet so you can get it all with one call instead of two    it s on their  wontfix  list

User · Answer

Duration in seconds using Python 2 7 and the YouTube API v3       try                  dur   entry  contentDetails    duration           try              minutes   int dur 2 4     60         except              minutes   0         try              hours   int dur  2     60   60         except              hours   0          secs   int dur 5 7           print hours  minutes  secs         video duration   hours   minutes   secs         print video duration     except Exception as e          print  Couldnt extract time   s    e         pass

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Youtube data 3 API   duration string to seconds conversion in Python Example   convert YouTube duration to seconds  P2DT1S   172801 convert YouTube duration to seconds  PT2H12M51S   7971  def convert YouTube duration to seconds duration      day time   duration split  T      day duration   day time 0  replace  P          day list   day duration split  D      if len day list     2        day   int day list 0     60   60   24       day list   day list 1     else        day   0       day list   day list 0     hour list   day time 1  split  H      if len hour list     2        hour   int hour list 0     60   60       hour list   hour list 1     else        hour   0       hour list   hour list 0     minute list   hour list split  M      if len minute list     2        minute   int minute list 0     60       minute list   minute list 1     else        minute   0       minute list   minute list 0     second list   minute list split  S      if len second list     2        second   int second list 0      else        second   0    return day   hour   minute   second

User · Answer

You can get the duration from the  contentDetails  field in the json response

User · Answer

You will have to make a call to the YouTube data API s video resource after you make the search call  You can put up to 50 video IDs in a search  so you won t have to call it for each element   https   developers google com youtube v3 docs videos list  You ll want to set part contentDetails  because the duration is there   For example  the following call   https   www googleapis com youtube v3 videos id 9bZkp7q19f0 amp part contentDetails amp key  YOUR API KEY    Gives this result       kind    youtube videoListResponse     etag      XlbeM5oNbUofJuiuGi6IkumnZR8 ny1S4th-ku477VARrY U4tIqcTw       items              id    9bZkp7q19f0       kind    youtube video       etag      XlbeM5oNbUofJuiuGi6IkumnZR8 HN8ILnw-DBXyCcTsc7JG0z51BGg         contentDetails          duration    PT4M13S        dimension    2d        definition    hd        caption    false        licensedContent   true       regionRestriction           blocked            DE                               The time is formatted as an ISO 8601 string  PT stands for Time Duration  4M is 4 minutes  and 13S is 13 seconds

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This code extracts the YouTube video duration using the YouTube API v3 by passing a video ID  It worked for me    lt  php     function getDuration  videoID           apikey    YOUR-Youtube-API-KEY      Like this AIcvSyBsLA8znZn-i-aPLWFrsPOlWMkEyVaXAcv         dur   file get contents  https   www googleapis com youtube v3 videos part contentDetails amp id  videoID amp key  apikey            VidDuration  json decode  dur  true          foreach   VidDuration  items   as  vidTime                       VidDuration   vidTime  contentDetails    duration                    preg match all     d      VidDuration  parts          return  parts 0  0                         parts 0  1                        parts 0  2      Return 1 11 46  i e   HH MM SS            echo getDuration  zyeubYQxHyY       Video ID   gt    You can get your domain s own YouTube API key on https   console developers google com and generate credentials for your own requirement

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