Retrieving all the new subscription videos in YouTube v3 API
I need to know the equivalent request in YouTube Data API v3 as this v2 request for retrieving all the new subscription videos.
https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/default/newsubscriptionvideos
I have not seen any simple and clean requests that are as simple as the v2 version of the reques
Answer
You can retrieve this information with the Youtube V3 API but it is incredibly inefficient:
- First get the channel ID from the username (one request).
- Now get the subscriptions for the channel (batchable - one request per 50 subs).
- Now get the playlists for each subscribed channel (batchable - one request per 50 subs).
- Get the most recent playlistItems for the "uploads" system playlist of each channel. (one request per sub).
- Get the video related to each playlistItem (batchable - one request 50 playlistItems).
You can now sort the videos by publishing date and print the most recent.
If you have 100 subscriptions and fetch 5 videos from each channel this will result in 114 API requests and use around 500 quota units (the daily limit is 50 million units). It will also take about 2 minutes to run if you don't parallelize the API calls.
This method does have a couple of benefits over using activites though:
- You can do it for any user with public account settings, not just the authenticated user, so it works like the V2 API in that respect.
- It won't randomly lose videos like the Youtube homepage does.
A full Python implementation is available: https://github.com/ali1234/ytsubs