PHP - How do we can get Youtube Views and comments count along with videos list via Youtube APIs?

Question

I am getting list of videos from youtube API. I want to also get views and comment count in response from youtube apis.

I am trying the following.

$client = new \Google_Client();
$client->setApplicationName('API code samples');
$client->setDeveloperKey('api_key');
echo "<pre>";
$queryParams = [
    'channelId' => 'channel_id',
    'maxResults' => 5,
    'order' => 'date',
    'type' => 'video'
];

$response = $service->search->listSearch('snippet', $queryParams);
print_r($response);

Youtube API Response

[snippet] => Google\Service\YouTube\SearchResultSnippet Object
    (
        [channelId] => Channel_id
        [channelTitle] => João Patrício
        [description] => Mohamed Said made an amazing video demonstrating how to easily develop a Nuxt and Laravel API application, and now let's ...
        [liveBroadcastContent] => none
        [publishedAt] => 2021-12-08T08:57:21Z
        [thumbnailsType:protected] => Google\Service\YouTube\ThumbnailDetails
        [thumbnailsDataType:protected] => 
        [title] => Deploying LaravelAPI and NuxtJs App using Traefik and Docker - 2nd Episode

I am getting vidoes title, description etc is it possible to get video's views & comments count in same api response?

Help me pls. Thank you

Answer 1

I am getting vidoes title, description etc is it possible to get video's views & comments count in same api response?

No it is not posible.

Search.list method

You are using the search.list method Which returns a list of search#resource

{
  "kind": "youtube#searchResult",
  "etag": etag,
  "id": {
    "kind": string,
    "videoId": string,
    "channelId": string,
    "playlistId": string
  },
  "snippet": {
    "publishedAt": datetime,
    "channelId": string,
    "title": string,
    "description": string,
    "thumbnails": {
      (key): {
        "url": string,
        "width": unsigned integer,
        "height": unsigned integer
      }
    },
    "channelTitle": string,
    "liveBroadcastContent": string
  }
}

Video.list method

To get a rating back you would need to use videos.list which will return a video resource which does contain the stats your are looking for.

  "statistics": {
    "viewCount": unsigned long,
    "likeCount": unsigned long,
    "dislikeCount": unsigned long,
    "favoriteCount": unsigned long,
    "commentCount": unsigned long
  },