How to get Youtube Live Stream by Channel Id in Youtube API V3 in android?

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YLS picture YLS · May 30, 2016 · Viewed 12.2k times · Source

I am able to get the list of live stream: https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/live/docs/liveStreams/list#examples But how to get the live stream status and live stream link or id for particular channel using youtube v3 api in android?

Answer

Harikrishnan picture Harikrishnan · Jul 3, 2017

I have faced the same problem and managed to figure out a solution for the same. YouTube actually provides an API for this purpose. You can use the search API to get the currently active Live Video ID, if you have the channel ID.

Use the following API:

https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search?part=snippet&channelId={YOUR_CHANNEL_ID}&eventType=live&type=video&key={YOUR_API_KEY}

The key factor here is you have to set the eventType to live and type to video.

For getting the channel ID, you can use the following request, if you have the channel's username.

https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/channels?part=contentDetails&forUsername={CHANNEL_USER_NAME}&key={YOUR_API_KEY}

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