How do I obtain a list of all videos in a channel using the YouTube Data API v3?
youtube, youtube-api
Solution
The API call that you should make if you want to get the videos in a channel is a `youtube.playlistItems.list()` with the playlistId of the "uploads" playlist for the channel. (This usually stars with `UU...`, but that's an implementation detail that might change in the future.
Here's an example of the call in the API Explorer.
Getting the same data via a search operation isn't guaranteed to return everything; the search index isn't a replacement for the backend data that you can obtain via the `youtube.playlistItems.list()` call. It's very much the same point raised in this blog post (though the focus there is on v2).
We just posted a YouTube video talking about how to get the videos in a channel, and there's samples illustrates how to make the actual API calls from your code in the documentation.
Problem
I'm using the YouTube API 3 for a client and am not getting all current videos. The API Explorer has 4 results: https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search?part=id%2C+snippet&channelId=UCwB4tpXCMWi-bw5HpMlY6Bg&maxResults=50&key={YOUR_API_KEY} And here is the client YouTube page: http://www.youtube.com/user/goldensteinart/videos which has 7 videos. They must all be public or they wouldn't appear on the page, right? What am I missing?