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Is there a way to check Youtube archived live stream chat?

I have try the Youtube data API for the Videos and LiveChatMessages endpoints, but I found that the liveBroadcastContent is get a none value for every old live stream Videos call, which is required for the LiveChatMessages call. Anyone know how to achieve that?

Ref. API page: https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/videos/list https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/live/docs/liveChatMessages/list

Solution

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

    However I recommend you to try out my open-source YouTube operational API. Indeed by requesting https://yt.lemnoslife.com/liveChats?part=snippet&id=VIDEO_ID&time=0 you will get the first live stream chat messages. Especially may interest you:

    • Message: item["message"]["runs"][0]["text"] (example: Hello)
    • Author channel id: item["authorExternalChannelId"] (example: UCwXmFws4KX57nLQ1Wivf1uQ)
    • Time relative to the livestream: item["timestampText"]["simpleText"] (example: 3:41:39)
    • Absolute time: item["timestampUsec"] (example: 1620493869868368)

    Then to get the following live stream chat messages, just pass as time in the above URL the last chat message retrieved in milliseconds.