YouTube API V3: Where can i find a list of each 'videoCategoryId'?

Haroldo picture Haroldo · Jul 17, 2013 · Viewed 29.6k times · Source

I'm using the Youtube API V3 but can't find documentation for how to filter by category:

Here's my code:

$results = $youtube->search->listSearch('id,snippet', array(
    'q' =>                  $_GET['q'],
    'maxResults' =>         20,
    'type' =>               'video'
    'videoCategoryId' =>    'what-do-i-put-here?',
));

I've been going through their documentation for an hour and can't seem to find any reference to how I find out what the various category's ids are. In my case I'm looking for the videoCategoryId for music....

Answer

Alaa Sadik picture Alaa Sadik · Mar 8, 2016

Using YouTube API v3 video category id list by Dinesh Gowtham Prathap at https://gist.github.com/dgp/1b24bf2961521bd75d6c

1 - Film & Animation 
2 - Autos & Vehicles
10 - Music
15 - Pets & Animals
17 - Sports
18 - Short Movies
19 - Travel & Events
20 - Gaming
21 - Videoblogging
22 - People & Blogs
23 - Comedy
24 - Entertainment
25 - News & Politics
26 - Howto & Style
27 - Education
28 - Science & Technology
29 - Nonprofits & Activism
30 - Movies
31 - Anime/Animation
32 - Action/Adventure
33 - Classics
34 - Comedy
35 - Documentary
36 - Drama
37 - Family
38 - Foreign
39 - Horror
40 - Sci-Fi/Fantasy
41 - Thriller
42 - Shorts
43 - Shows
44 - Trailers