How to get number of video views with YouTube API

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The question is very simple  How to get number of video views with YouTube API      The task is simple but I would like to use that query on large number of videos very often  Is there any way to call their Youtube API and get it   something like facebook http   api facebook com restserver php method links getStats amp urls developers facebook com

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PHP JSON   jsonURL   file get contents  https   www googleapis com youtube v3 videos id  Videoid amp key  YOUR-API-KEY  amp part statistics     json   json decode  jsonURL     First go through this one by uncommenting    var dump json     and get views count as    vcounts    json- gt   items   0 - gt   statistics  - gt   viewCount

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You can use the new YouTube Data API v3  if you retrieve the video  the statistics part contains the viewCount   from the doc   https   developers google com youtube v3 docs videos resource  statistics viewCount   The number of times the video has been viewed   You can retrieve this info in the client side  or in the server side using some of the client libraries   https   developers google com youtube v3 libraries  And you can test the API call from the doc   https   developers google com youtube v3 docs videos list  Sample   Request   GET https   www googleapis com youtube v3 videos part statistics amp id Q5mHPo2yDG8 amp key  YOUR API KEY   Authorization   Bearer ya29 AHES6ZSCT9BmIXJmjHlRlKMmVCU22UQzBPRuxzD7Zg 09hsG X-JavaScript-User-Agent   Google APIs Explorer   Response   200 OK  - Show headers -      kind    youtube videoListResponse     etag      g-RLCMLrfPIk8n3AxYYPPliWWoo dZ8K81pnD1mOCFyHQkjZNynHpYo       pageInfo        totalResults   1     resultsPerPage   1       items              id    Q5mHPo2yDG8       kind    youtube video       etag      g-RLCMLrfPIk8n3AxYYPPliWWoo 4NA7C24hM5mprqQ3sBwI5Lo9vZE         statistics          viewCount    36575966        likeCount    127569        dislikeCount    5715        favoriteCount    0        commentCount    20317

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Here an example that I used in my TubeCount app   I also use the fields parameter to filter the JSON result  so only the fields that I need are returned   var fields    fields openSearch totalResults entry title media group yt videoid  media group yt duration  media group media description  media group media thumbnail  yt name  default    url   yt statistics yt rating published gd comments gd feedLink  countHint       var channel    wiibart      ajax       url   http   gdata youtube com feeds api users   channel   uploads   fields   amp v 2 amp alt json       success  function data            var len   data feed entry length           for var k  0  k lt len  k                 var yt   data feed entry k               v count   Number yt yt statistics    undefined  amp  amp  yt yt statistics viewCount    undefined   yt yt statistics viewCount   0

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This probably is not what you want but you could scrap the page for the information using the following   document getElementsByClassName  watch-view-count   0  innerHTML

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You can use JQuery  don t forget to replace Your-Api-Key string from the code below  follow the link to find your own Api key google developers console   lt script gt        getJSON  https   www googleapis com youtube v3 videospart statistics amp id Qq7mpb-hCBY amp key Your-Api-Key   function data            console log  viewCount     data items  0   statistics viewCount            lt  script gt

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Version 2 of the API has been deprecated since March 2014  which some of these other answers are using   Here is a very simple code snippet to get the views count from a video  using JQuery in the YouTube API v3   You will need to create an API key via Google Developer Console first    lt script gt      getJSON  https   www googleapis com youtube v3 videos part statistics amp id Qq7mpb-hCBY amp key   YOUR-KEY     function data        alert  viewCount      data items 0  statistics viewCount          lt  script gt

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I think  the easiest way  is to get video info in JSON format  If you want to use JavaScript  try  jQuery getJSON      But I prefer PHP    lt  php  video ID    your-video-ID    JSON   file get contents  https   gdata youtube com feeds api videos   video ID  v 2 amp alt json     JSON Data   json decode  JSON    views    JSON Data- gt   entry  - gt   yt statistics  - gt   viewCount    echo  views    gt    Ref  Youtube API - Retrieving information about a single video

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Here is a small code snippet to get Youtube video views from URL using Javascript  Demo of below code      function videoViews     var rex     a-zA-Z0-9 -    11        videoUrl      input   val            alert  Enter a valid Url      input   val        videoId   videoUrl match rex       jsonUrl    http   gdata youtube com feeds api videos     videoId     v 2 amp alt json      embedUrl      www youtube com embed     videoId     embedCode     lt iframe width  350  height  197  src      embedUrl      frameborder  0  allowfullscreen gt  lt  iframe gt       Get Views from JSON   getJSON jsonUrl  function  videoData        var videoJson   JSON stringify videoData           vidJson   JSON parse videoJson           views   vidJson entry yt statistics viewCount          views   text views          Embed Video     videoembed   html embedCode

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look at yt statistics tag  It provides viewCount  videoWatchCount  favoriteCount etc

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You can use this too    lt  php      youtube view count   json decode file get contents  http   gdata youtube com feeds api videos wGG543FeHOE v 2 amp alt json   - gt entry- gt   yt statistics  - gt viewCount      echo  youtube view count        gt

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Use the Google PHP API Client  https   github com google google-api-php-client  Here s a little mini class just to get YouTube statistics for a single video id  It can obviously be extended a ton using the remainder of the api  https   api kdyby org class-Google Service YouTube Video html  class YouTubeVideo          video id     public  id          generate at https   console developers google com apis     private  apiKey    REPLACE ME           google youtube service     private  youtube       public function   construct  id                 client   new Google Client             client- gt setDeveloperKey  this- gt apiKey             this- gt youtube   new Google Service YouTube  client             this- gt id    id                        return Google Service YouTube VideoStatistics        Google Service YouTube VideoStatistics Object    commentCount    gt  0  dislikeCount    gt  0  favoriteCount    gt  0  likeCount    gt  0  viewCount    gt  5                 public function getStatistics                 try                 Call the API s videos list method to retrieve the video resource               response    this- gt youtube- gt videos- gt listVideos  statistics                   array  id    gt   this- gt id                  googleService   current  response- gt items               if  googleService instanceof Google Service YouTube Video                    return  googleService- gt getStatistics                            catch  Google Service Exception  e                return sprintf   lt p gt A service error occurred   lt code gt  s lt  code gt  lt  p gt                    htmlspecialchars  e- gt getMessage                catch  Google Exception  e                return sprintf   lt p gt An client error occurred   lt code gt  s lt  code gt  lt  p gt                    htmlspecialchars  e- gt getMessage

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Here is a simple function in PHP that returns the number of views a YouTube video has  You will need the YouTube Data API Key  v3  in order for this to work  If you don t have the key  get one for free at  YouTube Data API    Define a constant so that the API KEY can be used globally across the application     define  YOUTUBE DATA API KEY    YOUR YOUTUBE DATA API KEY     function youtube video statistics  video id         json   file get contents  https   www googleapis com youtube v3 videos part statistics amp id      video id     amp key    YOUTUBE DATA API KEY         jsonData   json decode  json        views    jsonData- gt items 0 - gt statistics- gt viewCount      return  views       Replace YOUTUBE VIDEO ID with your actual YouTube video Id echo youtube video statistics  YOUTUBE VIDEO ID      I am using this solution in my application and it is working as of today  So get the API Key and YouTube video ID and replace them in the above code  Second Line and Last Line  and you should be good to go

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YouTube Data API v3 URL Sample  Source Link     https   www googleapis com youtube v3 videos key  YOUR API KEY HERE  amp fields items snippet title tags channelTitle publishedAt  statistics viewCount   amp part snippet statistics amp id  VIDEOID

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Why using any api key to retrieve a portion of public html   Simplest unix command line demonstrative example  using curl  grep  and cut   curl https   www youtube com watch v r-y7jzGxKNo   grep watch7-views-info   cut -d  gt   -f8   cut -d  lt   -f1   Yes  it get the full html page  this loss has no meaning against the countless advantages

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Using youtube-dl and jq   views         id  1     youtube-dl -j https   www youtube com watch v  id           jq -r     view count       views fOX1EyHkQwc

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