Sorting Youtube API result from playlist
I have been struggling with Youtube's API v3 now and I can't get it work in the way I want. My goal is to load the latest videos from a selected playlist into my website. The problem is that I only the the oldest videos in my response.
To load the playlist I request following API URI: https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/playlistItems
Here is an example of a request (just click execute): http://developers.google.com/apis-explorer/#p/youtube/v3/youtube.playlistItems.list?part=id%252Csnippet%252CcontentDetails%252Cstatus&playlistId=PLOU2XLYxmsIKGo-dgliIJQNZ6L3G8UV4b&_h=1&
How can a sort the result and get the latest videos first? I can't find anything in the docs and I have been googling without any luck. There is no point with this API if you can't sort the result. The only way is to load all videos by keep loading the next page by token but that is just insane.
Any idea? Sounds like a basic problem but I can't find a solution...
Answer
The current API doesn't have a sorting option for listing playlist items, but if you are inserting the items programmatically, you can specify the position value when inserting to make new videos appear at the top of the list.
If it's someone else that is adding the videos, than you'll have to get all pages. Since the playlists are limited to 200 items, this requires 4 requests at most. Not ideal, but it's the only option now.