Google API to get impressions of youtube videos?

Question

Is there any API available to fetch Impressions of a youtube video? or the Impressions of all the videos in a account?

Note: I'm looking for video thumbnail impressions and not (card or annotation impressions)

Sample: This 1.9M is the data I'm interested in this video

Answer 1

As always YouTube APIs doesn't provide access to a basic feature but here is a workaround:

The following answer is similar to the one I wrote about retrieving Unique viewers from the Audience tab.

Go on your Video analytics interface in YouTube Studio.

Open the Web Developer Tools Network tab of your web-browser (by using Ctrl + Shift + E on Firefox for instance).

Now select Reach, pay attention to select one of following:

• First 24 hours
• Last 7 days
• Last 28 days
• Last 90 days
• Last 365 days
• Since uploaded (lifetime)

Because options:

• Since published
• Others depending on the time of video upload

Are maybe unavailable (depends if its a published video or depends on the time of video upload):

Total number of unique viewers is only available for periods of up to 90 days to ensure data quality.

You should see a request to get_screen, copy it as cURL (by right-clicking).

Pay attention to remove -H 'Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br' from it in order to get the JSON response in a human readable format. Otherwise you would face the following warning:

Warning: Binary output can mess up your terminal. Use "--output -" to tell curl to output it to your terminal anyway, or consider "--output " to save to a file.

In --data-raw request argument --data-raw '{"screenConfig":{"entity":{"videoId":"VIDEO_ID"} pay attention to change the VIDEO_ID for the one interesting you.

Execute the modified cURL request and your Impressions and Impressions click-through rate values are in the JSON response respectively at the keys /cards/0/keyMetricCardData/keyMetricTabs/{0,1}/primaryContent/total.