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Detect whether a Youtube video is licensed or not

So I got the new API cURL working for me for requesting video informations, I want to get the "licensed" info, tried with a music video, it worked, here.

My problem here is that I even tried it with a normal video, I got the same "licensedContent": true How can I detect if the music video is actually licensed? For an example here is shakira's song and the description of the license here.

Solution

  • Disclaimer:

    The following answer isn't complying with the YouTube operational API specification, you should instead follow my other StackOverflow answer on enumerating the musics in the given video. That way by checking whether or not the video contains musics you can deduce if the video is licensed or not.

    Deprecated answer:

    One more time YouTube Data API v3 doesn't provide a basic feature.

    I recommend you to use my open-source YouTube operational API. Indeed by requesting https://yt.lemnoslife.com/videos?part=containsMusic&id=VIDEO_ID you'll get the boolean whether or not the video contains a music in item["containsMusic"].

    Examples: