Youtube Rest API response details

February 27, 2018

Here, we give exact response from youtube apis.

Basics

Youtube provides details of video depend upon how much we ask. Youtube provides following types of information types:

Snippet
It includes details like published date, channel Id, title, description, thumbnail images of different sizes, title of channel, tags etc.
ContentDetails
It has information like duration, dimension, definition, caption etc
TopicDetails
Topic information, some links from wiki of the category of video.
Statistics
View count, like count, dislike count, favorite count, comment count

Information example for a Video, Information level: (snippet, contentDetails, topicDetails, statistics)

{
   "kind": "youtube#videoListResponse",
   "etag": "etag of video",
   "pageInfo": {
      "totalResults": 1,
      "resultsPerPage": 1
   },
   "items": [
      {
         "kind": "youtube#video",
         "etag": "etag of video",
         "id": "video id",
         "snippet": {
            "publishedAt": "2017-08-07T10:11:04.000Z",
            "channelId": "channel id",
            "title": "title ",
            "description": "description of video",
            "thumbnails": {
               "default": {
                  "url": "direct image url",
                  "width": 120,
                  "height": 90
               },
               "medium": {
                  "url": "direct image url",
                  "width": 320,
                  "height": 180
               },
               "high": {
                  "url": "direct image url",
                  "width": 480,
                  "height": 360
               },
               "standard": {
                  "url": "direct image url",
                  "width": 640,
                  "height": 480
               }
            },
            "channelTitle": "Channel title",
            "tags": [
               "bunch of tags, if given"
            ],
            "categoryId": "26",
            "liveBroadcastContent": "none",
            "defaultLanguage": "en-GB",
            "localized": {
               "title": "title",
               "description": "description"
            },
            "defaultAudioLanguage": "en-GB"
         },
         "contentDetails": {
            "duration": "PT3M9S",
            "dimension": "2d",
            "definition": "hd",
            "caption": "false",
            "licensedContent": true,
            "projection": "rectangular"
         },
         "statistics": {
            "viewCount": "7808",
            "likeCount": "79",
            "dislikeCount": "4",
            "favoriteCount": "0",
            "commentCount": "2"
         },
         "topicDetails": {
            "relevantTopicIds": [
               "/m/019_rr",
               "/m/03glg",
               "/m/019_rr",
               "/m/03glg"
            ],
            "topicCategories": [
               "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifestyle_(sociology)",
               "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobby"
            ]
         }
      }
   ]
}

Response for comment

```js [ { "kind": "youtube#commentThread", "etag": "\"_gJQceDMxJ8gP-8T2HLXUoURK8c/PpbEormnuWTQWMoRKEAbm9cLjjU\"", "id": "UgxlmZtbyZ7m6Fk46fR4AaABAg", "snippet": { "videoId": "pV_XHKYhRgw", "topLevelComment": { "kind": "youtube#comment", "etag": "\"_gJQceDMxJ8gP-8T2HLXUoURK8c/yg0P6VX_GhIUPHK_GaiwR-ujZm8\"", "id": "UgxlmZtbyZ7m6Fk46fR4AaABAg", "snippet": { "authorDisplayName": "Afrozkanpur Afrozkanpur", "authorProfileImageUrl": "https://yt3.ggpht.com/-Uw6ZLZNnZL4/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAAA/ZOcnswHwIPA/s28-c-k-no-mo-rj-c0xffffff/photo.jpg", "authorChannelUrl": "http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCp0MUsTZH1ltLNC9gkW1OKg", "authorChannelId": { "value": "UCp0MUsTZH1ltLNC9gkW1OKg" }, "videoId": "pV_XHKYhRgw", "textDisplay": "sir hme leminets door ka disain cahiye", "textOriginal": "sir hme leminets door ka disain cahiye", "canRate": true, "viewerRating": "none", "likeCount": 0, "publishedAt": "2018-02-17T08:56:20.000Z", "updatedAt": "2018-02-17T08:56:20.000Z" } }, "canReply": true, "totalReplyCount": 0, "isPublic": true } }, { "kind": "youtube#commentThread", "etag": "\"_gJQceDMxJ8gP-8T2HLXUoURK8c/btHcdg53wX3hhxluWaNjmnFvsRQ\"", "id": "Ugz8GM8E0ZAuiezU2ZR4AaABAg", "snippet": { "videoId": "pV_XHKYhRgw", "topLevelComment": { "kind": "youtube#comment", "etag": "\"_gJQceDMxJ8gP-8T2HLXUoURK8c/4WDl1bqg1ZnE49vVwLOuD4sbsC4\"", "id": "Ugz8GM8E0ZAuiezU2ZR4AaABAg", "snippet": { "authorDisplayName": "imran ali", "authorProfileImageUrl": "https://yt3.ggpht.com/-xsrhPbh8lwk/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAAA/vketWZ-cMQg/s28-c-k-no-mo-rj-c0xffffff/photo.jpg", "authorChannelUrl": "http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-TLzrg6yuZ4oF2hcljXPxw", "authorChannelId": { "value": "UC-TLzrg6yuZ4oF2hcljXPxw" }, "videoId": "pV_XHKYhRgw", "textDisplay": "nyc", "textOriginal": "nyc", "canRate": true, "viewerRating": "none", "likeCount": 1, "publishedAt": "2018-01-06T13:25:25.000Z", "updatedAt": "2018-01-06T13:25:25.000Z" } }, "canReply": true, "totalReplyCount": 1, "isPublic": true }, "replies": { "comments": [ { "kind": "youtube#comment", "etag": "\"_gJQceDMxJ8gP-8T2HLXUoURK8c/0rBPE5BM07jw_ElUQvzIs9C9aPU\"", "id": "Ugz8GM8E0ZAuiezU2ZR4AaABAg.8b4WpG33XE58cGpxNxZcvG", "snippet": { "authorDisplayName": "Plan n Design", "authorProfileImageUrl": "https://yt3.ggpht.com/-jOyekwseTi0/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAAA/Kx-yMDRdmcc/s28-c-k-no-mo-rj-c0xffffff/photo.jpg", "authorChannelUrl": "http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNNxPxH_zIPxvWy5QMFkruA", "authorChannelId": { "value": "UCNNxPxH_zIPxvWy5QMFkruA" }, "videoId": "pV_XHKYhRgw", "textDisplay": "Thank you so much!!", "textOriginal": "Thank you so much!!", "parentId": "Ugz8GM8E0ZAuiezU2ZR4AaABAg", "canRate": true, "viewerRating": "none", "likeCount": 0, "publishedAt": "2018-02-05T04:43:34.000Z", "updatedAt": "2018-02-05T04:43:34.000Z" } } ] } } ] ```

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