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Youtube api v3 Get list of user’s videos

May 23, 2023 by Tarik

The channels#list method will return a JSON with some information about the channel, including the playlist ID for the “uploads” playlist: https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/channels?part=contentDetails&forUsername=OneDirectionVEVO&key={YOUR_API_KEY} With the playlist ID you can get the videos with the playlistItems#list method: https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/playlistItems?part=snippet&playlistId=UUbW18JZRgko_mOGm5er8Yzg&key={YOUR_API_KEY} You can test those at the end of the documentation pages.

How to pull data from YouTube API to a Google Sheet with Channel Links

May 19, 2023 by Tarik

Here is a Google Apps Script doing the described trick on a Google Sheet: // This Google Apps Script fills a Google Sheet with statistics associated to given YouTube channels. // More precisely this script assumes that in columns A after the first row there are channel identifiers, // which can be a channel ID … Read more

How to call Greasemonkey’s GM_ functions from code that must run in the target page scope?

May 5, 2023 by Tarik

To use Greasemonkey’s GM_ functions from code that must run in the page scope (Such as your timeBtn click handler), do the following: Have the page-scope code use postMessage to send the data in string format. Have the Greasemonkey script listen for the appropriate messages and call the desired GM_ function(s) with the message data. … Read more

YouTube embed gives “restricted from playback on certain sites” error despite API metadata indicating otherwise

May 4, 2023 by Tarik

Certain videos have a domain-level whitelist or blacklist applied to them. This is done at the discretion of the content owner. If there is a whitelist or a blacklist, and the domain of the embedding site can’t be determined (perhaps because of there not being a real referring domain in the case of your native … Read more

How do you mute an embedded Youtube player?

May 3, 2023 by Tarik

Turns out player.mute() works fine. It only needed the parameter enablejsapi=1. Initial test in the fiddle didn’t work because the player initiation had an error. The following works. HTML: <iframe id=”ytplayer” type=”text/html” src=”https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/zJ7hUvU-d2Q?rel=0&enablejsapi=1&autoplay=1&controls=0&showinfo=0&loop=1&iv_load_policy=3″ frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen></iframe> JS: var player; function onYouTubeIframeAPIReady() { player = new YT.Player(‘ytplayer’, { events: { ‘onReady’: onPlayerReady } }); } function onPlayerReady(event) … Read more

RegEx pattern to get the YouTube video ID from any YouTube URL

November 22, 2022 by Tarik

if (preg_match(‘/youtube\.com\/watch\?v=([^\&\?\/]+)/’, $url, $id)) { $values = $id[1]; } else if (preg_match(‘/youtube\.com\/embed\/([^\&\?\/]+)/’, $url, $id)) { $values = $id[1]; } else if (preg_match(‘/youtube\.com\/v\/([^\&\?\/]+)/’, $url, $id)) { $values = $id[1]; } else if (preg_match(‘/youtu\.be\/([^\&\?\/]+)/’, $url, $id)) { $values = $id[1]; } else if (preg_match(‘/youtube\.com\/verify_age\?next_url=\/watch%3Fv%3D([^\&\?\/]+)/’, $url, $id)) { $values = $id[1]; } else { // not an youtube … Read more

Event when YouTube video finished

November 21, 2022 by Tarik

Youtube has a JavaScript API: https://developers.google.com/youtube/js_api_reference What you need is the onStateChange event, which will give you 0 when ended. player.addEventListener(“onStateChange”, function(state){ if(state === 0){ // the video is end, do something here. } });

How to get number of video views with YouTube API?

November 8, 2022 by Tarik

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: <?php $video_ID = ‘your-video-ID’; $JSON = file_get_contents(“https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/{$video_ID}?v=2&alt=json”); $JSON_Data = json_decode($JSON); $views = $JSON_Data->{‘entry’}->{‘yt$statistics’}->{‘viewCount’}; echo $views; ?> Ref: Youtube API – Retrieving information about a single video

How can I get a channel ID from YouTube?

November 7, 2022 by Tarik

To obtain the channel id you can view the source code of the channel page and find either data-channel-external-id=”UCjXfkj5iapKHJrhYfAF9ZGg” or “externalId”:”UCjXfkj5iapKHJrhYfAF9ZGg”. UCjXfkj5iapKHJrhYfAF9ZGg will be the channel ID you are looking for.

Embed YouTube video – Refused to display in a frame because it set ‘X-Frame-Options’ to ‘SAMEORIGIN’ [duplicate]

November 6, 2022 by Tarik

You must ensure the URL contains embed rather watch as the /embed endpoint allows outside requests, whereas the /watch endpoint does not. <iframe width=”420″ height=”315″ src=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/A6XUVjK9W4o” frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen></iframe>