YouTube Data API v3 - playlistItems returning playlistNotFound
I followed the instructions in this Google video and elsewhere:
- connect to API v3 using a static API key
- get the download playlist id for a channel using the legacy channel id (eg "GoogleDevelopers").
- use the playlistItems endpoint for this playlist to get a list of videos uploaded to this YouTube account.
The first two steps work and I can get the channel / playlist id but it playlistItems
returns playlistNotFound
every time (I tested it with several different YouTube accounts).
I try to check carefully for typos - I don't see anything wrong with the queries.
Any ideas, or can anyone reproduce the problem?
Sample API call (using the GoogleDevelopers feed as shown in their video) - you need to create your own API key to test this
https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/channels?key= [myAPIkey ]&forUsername=GoogleDevelopers&part=id
Answer:
{
"kind": "youtube#channelListResponse",
"etag": "\"IHLB7Mi__JPvvG2zLQWAg8l36UU/9Uu_LJKSiIBlJOBZoZLkKcjhUUE\"",
"pageInfo": {
"totalResults": 1,
"resultsPerPage": 5
},
"items": [
{
"kind": "youtube#channel",
"etag": "\"IHLB7Mi__JPvvG2zLQWAg8l36UU/JgZIwrlCnsd1wzjssCxaCFp8mRU\"",
"id": "UC_x5XG1OV2P6uZZ5FSM9Ttw"
}
]
}
Trying to get the first video in the playlist:
{
"error": {
"errors": [
{
"domain": "youtube.playlistItem",
"reason": "playlistNotFound",
"message": "Not Found",
"locationType": "parameter",
"location": "playlistId"
}
],
"code": 404,
"message": "Not Found"
}
}
Note. I created a server key because it will run on the server. But I'm testing in a browser (with whitelisted IPs.) This shouldn't cause any problems? (there are still no auth errors.)
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William, what you used as the playlist id is the channel id to get the list of playlists with the id needed to add contentDetails for the partial parameter.
https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/channels?part=contentDetails&maxResults=50&forUsername=GoogleDevelopers&key=<APIKEY>
Answer:
{
kind: "youtube#channelListResponse",
etag: ""iDqJ1j7zKs4x3o3ZsFlBOwgWAHU/rGUGLTaUoy_huV1Qfc0wvulpr7M"",
pageInfo: {
totalResults: 1,
resultsPerPage: 50
},
items: [
{
kind: "youtube#channel",
etag: ""iDqJ1j7zKs4x3o3ZsFlBOwgWAHU/Il2dF5SRdky6_tqanN3hNuDyfxc"",
id: "UC_x5XG1OV2P6uZZ5FSM9Ttw",
contentDetails: {
relatedPlaylists: {
uploads: "UU_x5XG1OV2P6uZZ5FSM9Ttw"
},
googlePlusUserId: "111395306401981598462"
}
}
]
}
Then use "UU_x5XG1OV2P6uZZ5FSM9Ttw" as the loadable playlist, so the next call looks like this:
https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/playlistItems?part=contentDetails&maxResults=1&playlistId=UU_x5XG1OV2P6uZZ5FSM9Ttw&key=<APIKEY>
Answer:
{
kind: "youtube#playlistItemListResponse",
etag: ""iDqJ1j7zKs4x3o3ZsFlBOwgWAHU/AqAMzBB7CuVjpCKtQDHbbIvjtMU"",
nextPageToken: "CAEQAA",
pageInfo: {
totalResults: 3761,
resultsPerPage: 1
},
items: [{
kind: "youtube#playlistItem",
etag: ""iDqJ1j7zKs4x3o3ZsFlBOwgWAHU/qjqde7mm3USo4TmUrxDN8KdbyaQ"",
id: "UUj6hVp42BfAXGn9SkmnI_HudylmOycmdp",
contentDetails: {
videoId: "tjmRUgUca1g"
}
}]
}
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