Get ALL video information about specific YouTube Channel
Ichi
Posted on April 28, 2021
I tried to get the information of the all video in a specific channel.
Overview
I wrote it with reference to StackOverflow.
Due to API restrictions, even if I make a request, I can only get 50 requests at a once, so I sent requests many times at regular intervals to get them.
You can get the following information.
- Title/ID/Summary
- Thumbnail
- Post date and time
It may be better to stop trying it indiscriminately because there are restrictions on API calls.
The sample JSON file is uploaded to GitHub.
https://github.com/tomox0115/randomhikakin/blob/main/database/hikakin.json
Get API key
There is a lot of information, so please google around.
Sample code
For the time being, the sample is also uploaded to Gist.
<?php
/*
If you get an error related to the date and time, please specify the default term zone like ↓
date_default_timezone_set("America/Los_Angeles");
*/
//YouTube API v3
$API_KEY = "***************************************";
// Get the channel ID from the user name (skip OK if you know the ID)
function get_user_channel_id($user){
global $API_KEY;
$url = 'https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/channels?key=' . $API_KEY . '&part=id&forUsername=';
return search($user,$url)['items'][0]['id'];
}
//
function search($searchTerm,$url){
$url = $url . urlencode($searchTerm);
$result = file_get_contents($url);
if($result !== false){
return json_decode($result, true);
}
return false;
}
function push_data($searchResults){
global $data;
foreach($searchResults['items'] as $item){
$data[] = $item;
}
return $data;
}
function get_url_for_time_period($channelId, $time){
global $API_KEY;
// Date and time type specification
$publishedAfter = date("Y-m-d\TH:i:sP",strval($time));
// Specify the period of 60 days
$publishedBefore_ = $time + (60 * 60 * 24 * 60);
$publishedBefore = date("Y-m-d\TH:i:sP",$publishedBefore_);
// Make request URL
$url = 'https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search?part=snippet&type=video&key=' . $API_KEY . '&maxResults=50&channelId=' . $channelId . '&publishedAfter=' . urlencode($publishedAfter) . '&publishedBefore=' . urlencode($publishedBefore);
return array("url"=>$url,"utc"=>$publishedBefore_);
}
$start_date = "YYYY-MM-DD"; // Set date
$time = strtotime($start_date);
$username = "*****"; // ex. hikakintv
$channelId = get_user_channel_id($username);
while($time < time()){
$url = get_url_for_time_period($channelId, $time);
$searchResults = search("", $url['url']);
$data = push_data($searchResults);
$time += 60 * 60 * 24 * 60; // Add 60 days
}
// If you want to display the returned data
echo "<pre>";
var_dump($data);
echo "</pre>";
// If you want to save the array in JSON format
$json = json_encode($data, JSON_PRETTY_PRINT | JSON_UNESCAPED_UNICODE | JSON_UNESCAPED_SLASHES);
file_put_contents($username . ".json" , $json);
// If you want to output the number of videos
print count($data);
JSON that can be acquired
The returned video information is stored in $data
as an associative array, so you should output it as JSON.
Below is an example of JSON.
Only the first video information is posted. It will continue forever ...
[
{
"kind": "youtube#searchResult",
"etag": "cRtdkU1jXJ6Abga3q5S490FrsP0",
"id": {
"kind": "youtube#video",
"videoId": "0t8CH5BAgLY"
},
"snippet": {
"publishedAt": "2011-07-20T15:19:55Z",
"channelId": "UCZf__ehlCEBPop-_sldpBUQ",
"title": "世界一おいしい飲み物『ピルクル』 - The World Best Juice『Pirukuru』 -",
"description": "ピルクルに勝る飲み物なし。",
"thumbnails": {
"default": {
"url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/0t8CH5BAgLY/default.jpg",
"width": 120,
"height": 90
},
"medium": {
"url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/0t8CH5BAgLY/mqdefault.jpg",
"width": 320,
"height": 180
},
"high": {
"url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/0t8CH5BAgLY/hqdefault.jpg",
"width": 480,
"height": 360
}
},
"channelTitle": "HikakinTV",
"liveBroadcastContent": "none",
"publishTime": "2011-07-20T15:19:55Z"
}
},
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