I've tried to build an app that makes a youtube-api activities list request every x seconds, to look for new things that happened on some channels. The code works fine but some channels give me no response back about the activities. The request will work fine and give no error but there are no data.
Hope you know what I mean and somebody has a solution for me.
Tried it also here : https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/activities/list
but same problem - request is successful but no items inside.
I also was unable to get new uploads information for that channel ID using the Activities:List API request. However, I was able to use a different API request (actually a series of two) and successfully get the 50 most recent uploads.
If you only need uploads, as your comment suggests, this could be a solution. It uses Channels:List and PlaylistItems:List API requests, at a quota cost of one unit each:
First, the Channels:List call retrieves the uploads playlist ID: get playlist ID:
https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/channels?part=contentDetails&id=UCJgcqQq2WyJf35ovKj8fFeQ&maxResults=10&fields=items&order=date&key=YOUR_API_KEY
The response from Youtube contains JSON code:
{
"items": [
{
"kind": "youtube#channel",
"etag": "\"XpPGQXPnxQJhLgs6enD_n8JR4Qk/JLM6UA_xPnpiDQtL6ILexatJ0sc\"",
"id": "UCJgcqQq2WyJf35ovKj8fFeQ",
"contentDetails": {
"relatedPlaylists": {
"uploads": "UUJgcqQq2WyJf35ovKj8fFeQ",
"watchHistory": "HL",
"watchLater": "WL"
}
}
}
]
Using the uploads playlist ID from the above response, make the PlaylistItems:List call. Max-results sets up to 50 latest items:
https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/playlistItems?part=snippet&fields=nextPageToken,items(snippet(publishedAt,title,description,thumbnails(default(url)),resourceId(videoId)))&playlistId=UUJgcqQq2WyJf35ovKj8fFeQ&maxResults=50&order=date&key=YOUR_API_KEY
The response contains 50 most recent videos, date-sorted. Including publish date, title, description, thumbnail image url, video ID , and nextpage token (used if you want to get 50 more items):
{
"nextPageToken": "CDIQAA",
"items": [
{
"snippet": {
"publishedAt": "2019-06-07T18:30:01.000Z",
"title": "BATMAN a Telltale Story | Folge 22 [Deutsch LP]",
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"thumbnails": {
"default": {
"url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ZZSDYaW0nxw/default.jpg"
}
},
"resourceId": {
"videoId": "ZZSDYaW0nxw"
}
}
}, ... etc.