I've been looking for a method to extract details from a YouTube clip when only knowing the clip URL within a python script. I specifically need the original channel name.
The YouTube API does not seem to include any method to do so, only to extract details from a known video ID.
For example, this clip: https://www.youtube.com/clip/UgkxnEqNDtOHMOOoS5TyJFr2QOjdKbaTOTlW, with the ID UgkxnEqNDtOHMOOoS5TyJFr2QOjdKbaTOTlW is from this video https://youtu.be/z-e2bDx7tUA, with the ID z-e2bDx7tUA.
z-e2bDx7tUA is searchable with the API, but UgkxnEqNDtOHMOOoS5TyJFr2QOjdKbaTOTlW is not.
Even if there's a more roundabout method, such as getting the clip ID, then getting the video ID and then being able to use that within the API would work. But I've not found an efficient way of doing so, including web scraping.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
One more time YouTube Data API v3 doesn't provide a basic feature.
I recommend you to use my open-source YouTube operational API. Indeed by using https://yt.lemnoslife.com/videos?part=id&clipId=CLIP_ID you'll get in item['videoId'] the video id associated with the clip.
For example the CLIP_ID UgkxfiAGoXJYA02_JdIzA3k3pvqpLNm90DBx is extracted from the videoId 9bZkp7q19f0.
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My Question is about YouTube thumbnails and endscreens
We are trying to automate publishing of content for YouTube channels. Can thumbnail be automatically set for the given episode with details such as show logo, episode number from the content.
Looking for API to support the automation.
Can somebody please help?
There's the following API endpoint that permits you to set the thumbnail of your videos (thus, of your broadcasts too): Thumbnails.set.
For what concerns Python, I'd recommend to read, understand and use the public sample code from Google: upload_thumbnail.py.
Note that in case you need uploading a thumbnail for a broadcast, then simply use that broadcast's ID as the parameter videoId that you'll pass to the Thumbnails.set API endpoint call.
Is there a way to pull traffic information from a particular youtube video (demographics for example, age of users, country, gender, etc.), say using the python gdata module or the youtube API? I have been looking around the module's documentation, but so far nothing.
There used to be a large selection of things in the past, but they are all gone now. So do not think it is possible any more.
I am pretty new to Python. I am currently using version 3.3.2. I have an array of links to sources of streaming videos. What I want to do is sort them between HD(>720p) and non-HD(<720p) videos. I have been searching the internet, but the only closest I got to was a ffmpeg python wrapper https://code.google.com/p/pyffmpeg/.
So I wanted to know if it is even possible? If yes, can you please link me to some resources, or what keywords I should be searching on google?
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The easy way to do this is to use the web service API for each site.
For example, the YouTube API lets you issue a search and get back metadata on all of the matching videos. If you look at the video, properties, you can check definition == 'hd', or you can iterate the videoStreams for the video and check whether heightPixels >= 720 or bitrateBps >= 8*1024*1024 or whatever you think is an appropriate definition for "HD" if you don't like theirs.
You can find the APIs for most sites by just googling "Foo API", but here are links for the ones you asked about:
Daily Motion
Metacafe: I can't find the API docs anymore, but it's just simple RSS feeds.
YouTube
The hard way to do this is to write a universal video downloader—which is very, very hard—and process the file with something like pyffmpeg after you download it (or, if you're lucky, after you've only downloaded part of it).
I am uploading video to youtube by using their API. After the successful upload, i want to get the video id which i am unable to find. I have found this in the video_entry object as id.
<ns0:id xmlns:ns0="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/nK1Ax6320T8</ns0:id>
Here, nK1Ax6320T8 is the video id. How can i parse it in python. Kindly help.
You'll need to parse that url parameters, Python provides a good library to do that.
There's good sample code from the YouTube data API docs that does exactly what you're asking about. Checkout line 76.
Does anyone know if something like this is possible? Do a quick search, using tags, for public flickr images, but without using an api ley, and retrieve images based on that search? (I already read Why do I need a flickr API key, I want to know if there are libs that can do this search without it). Or maybe give a rss for a set, and have a list/dictflickr object of the images...
Sure, seduce a developer on the Flickr dev team and get them to open a back door for you. Or use your mad hax0r skills to do the same, sans seduction.
Seriously, though, Flickr says you need an API key to use their API. So you get an API key.
Or you could scrape the entire flickr site, building up your own metadata on the site. The compute and storage budget might be excessive.