How to check if YouTube channel is streaming live

Question

I can't find any informations to check if a YouTube channel is actually streaming or not. With Twitch you just need the channel name, and with the API you can check if there is a live or not.

I don't want to use OAuth, normally a public API key is enough. Like checking the videos of a channel I want to know if the channel is streaming.

Answer 1

You can do this by using search.list and specifying the channel ID, setting the type to video, and setting eventType to live.

For example, when I searched for:

https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search?part=snippet&channelId=UCXswCcAMb5bvEUIDEzXFGYg&type=video&eventType=live&key=[API_KEY]

I got the following:

{
 "kind": "youtube#searchListResponse",
 "etag": "\"sGDdEsjSJ_SnACpEvVQ6MtTzkrI/gE5P_aKHWIIc6YSpRcOE57lf9oE\"",
 "pageInfo": {
  "totalResults": 1,
  "resultsPerPage": 5
 },
 "items": [
  {
   "kind": "youtube#searchResult",
   "etag": "\"sGDdEsjSJ_SnACpEvVQ6MtTzkrI/H-6Tm7-JewZC0-CW4ALwOiq9wjs\"",
   "id": {
    "kind": "youtube#video",
    "videoId": "W4HL6h-ZSws"
   },
   "snippet": {
    "publishedAt": "2015-09-08T11:46:23.000Z",
    "channelId": "UCXswCcAMb5bvEUIDEzXFGYg",
    "title": "Borussia Dortmund vs St. Pauli 1-0 Live Stream",
    "description": "Borussia Dortmund vs St. Pauli Live Stream Friendly Match.",
    "thumbnails": {
     "default": {
      "url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/W4HL6h-ZSws/default.jpg"
     },
     "medium": {
      "url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/W4HL6h-ZSws/mqdefault.jpg"
     },
     "high": {
      "url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/W4HL6h-ZSws/hqdefault.jpg"
     }
    },
    "channelTitle": "",
    "liveBroadcastContent": "live"
   }
  }
 ]
}