How to get view count from YouTube APIs for android

Question

How to get view count from YouTube APIs for android : I am unable to find any document related to getViewCount from YouTube APIs for Android. There is information available for java in general but not for android. I am stuck please help.

Answer 1

https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/videos?part=statistics&id={{VIDEO-ID}}&key={{YOUR-KEY}}

And under the JSONObject for statistics is a field called "viewCount"

Documentation to help you: https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/videos#resource

If using REST API Client

Here is the sample when you add the statistics part:

{
 "kind": "youtube#videoListResponse",
 "etag": etag,
 "pageInfo": {
 "totalResults": integer,
 "resultsPerPage": integer
},
"items": [
  {
   "kind": "youtube#video",
   "etag": etag,
   "id": string,
   "statistics": {
    "viewCount": unsigned long,
    "likeCount": unsigned long,
    "dislikeCount": unsigned long,
    "favoriteCount": unsigned long,
    "commentCount": unsigned long
   }
  }
]

Just grab the JSONObject called "statistics" and then directly access the field "viewCount".

JSONArray items = response.getJSONArray("items");
JSONObject statistics = items.getJSONObject(0).getJSONObject("statistics");
Long views = statistics.getLong("viewCount");

EDIT: to show an actual response and proper access

If using the Youtube API v3 Module

Add the Youtube API v3 dependency to your project in the app build.gradle folder:

dependencies {
    compile 'com.google.apis:google-api-services-youtube:v3-rev152-1.21.0'
}

That is the header, or jar file, in question you need. Then you can instantiate a YouTube object like I showed above:

YouTube youtube = new YouTube.Builder(new NetHttpTransport(), new JacksonFactory(), new HttpRequestInitializer());

YouTube.Videos.List videoRequest = youtube.videos().list("contentDetails");
 videoRequest.setId("SOME-VIDEO-ID");
 videoRequest.setFields("items/contentDetails");
 videoRequest.setKey("YOUR-API-KEY");
 VideoListResponse response = videoRequest.execute(); //blocking call, ensure to perform off ui thread via AsyncTask 
 List<Video> videosList = response.getItems(); 

 if(videosList != null && videosList.size() > 0){
     Video video = videosList.get(0);
     VideoStatistics statistics = video.getStatistics();
     BigInteger viewCount = statistics.getViewCount();
 }

Docs: https://developers.google.com/resources/api-libraries/documentation/youtube/v3/java/latest/com/google/api/services/youtube/model/Video.html#getStatistics()