YouTube API v3 PHP gets total channel views

You need to use the Channel.list API. The general view of the channel is in the part statistics

.

You need the channel name or channel ID. If you want a channel id but you only have the channel name, you can use this app to get the YouTube channel id.

Result form:

{
 "kind": "youtube#channelListResponse",
 "etag": "\"gMjDJfS6nsym0T-NKCXALC_u_rM/0FiX4yi2JggRgndNH8LVUqGkBEs\"",
 "pageInfo": {
  "totalResults": 1,
  "resultsPerPage": 1
 },
 "items": [
  {

   "kind": "youtube#channel",
   "etag": "\"gMjDJfS6nsym0T-NKCXALC_u_rM/ch89JvwOeEbWio2fOHY7sxE7XCc\"",
   "id": "UCMGgBRBiijmpgL3xNuiDVOQ",
   "statistics": {
    "viewCount": "5861117",
    "commentCount": "275",
    "subscriberCount": "40674",
    "hiddenSubscriberCount": false,
    "videoCount": "29"
   }
  }
 ]
}

      

        
        
        
      

    

General view of the canal is in part [items"][0]["statistics"]["viewCount"]

For this channel, viewCount: 5 861 117, same number if you look at channel https://www.youtube.com/user/Vecci87/about .

LIVE EXAMPLE

EDIT

You can use Youtube API Analytics . Important information, you must be the owner of a YouTube account, this method requires authentication with Oauth2. I gave you a basic example, I define two dates: today and last day. I set metrics

in view

and dimension

in day

, to have an idea for every day. Finally, I add all of these values.

$today = date("Y-m-d");
$datePast = date('Y-m-d', strtotime("-".$period." day"));
try {
    $activitiesView = $youtube->reports->query('channel=='.$idde.'', $datePast , $today, 'views', array('dimensions' => 'day'));
} catch(Google_ServiceException $e) { }

$average = 0;
if(isset($activitiesView['rows'])) {
    foreach ($activitiesView['rows'] as $value) {
        $average += $value[1];
    }   
    $average = $average/count($activitiesView['rows']);
}

      

        
        
        
      

    

Complete code example:

<?php

require_once 'google-api-php-client/src/Google_Client.php';
require_once 'google-api-php-client/src/contrib/Google_YouTubeAnalyticsService.php';
require_once 'google-api-php-client/src/contrib/Google_Oauth2Service.php';

// Set your cached access token. Remember to replace $_SESSION with a
// real database or memcached.
session_start();

$client = new Google_Client();
$client->setApplicationName('Google+ PHP Starter Application');

$client->setClientId('YOUR_CLIENT_ID');
$client->setClientSecret('CLIENT_SECRET');
$client->setRedirectUri('REDIRECT_URI');
$client->setDeveloperKey('YOUR_DEV_KEY');

$youtube = new Google_YouTubeAnalyticsService($client);
$service = new Google_YouTubeService($client);
$auth2 = new Google_Oauth2Service($client);

if (isset($_GET['code'])) {
    $client->authenticate();
    $_SESSION['token'] = $client->getAccessToken();
    $redirect = 'http://' . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];
    header('Location: ' . filter_var($redirect, FILTER_SANITIZE_URL));  
}

if (isset($_SESSION['token'])) {
    $client->setAccessToken($_SESSION['token']);
}

if ($client->getAccessToken()) {

    /***************USER STATS********************/
    $today = date("Y-m-d");
    $datePast = date('Y-m-d', strtotime("-".$period." day"));
    try {
        $activitiesView = $youtube->reports->query('channel=='.$idde.'', $datePast , $today, 'views', array('dimensions' => 'day'));
    } catch(Google_ServiceException $e) { }

    $average = 0;
    if(isset($activitiesView['rows'])) {
        foreach ($activitiesView['rows'] as $value) {
            $average += $value[1];
        }   
        $average = $average/count($activitiesView['rows']);
    }


    /***************USER STATS********************/

  $_SESSION['token'] = $client->getAccessToken();
} else {

    $authUrl = $client->createAuthUrl();
    //simple verification
    if(strpos($RedirectUri, "redirect_uri") !== false) {
        header('Location: error.php');
        exit;
    }
}