Get the music genres in YouTube

Question

When we view the YouTube page, and click Music, we are able to see them on different genre\'s like \"Rap\", \"Rock\", \"Country\", etc.

How can I retrieve this data (th

Answer 1

In freebase you can ask for music genre mids. For example in: http://www.freebase.com/search?query=rock you get that /m/06by7 = rock. With this id you do a query on youtube and get videos regarding this genre;

Try it https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/search/list#try-it with this conditions:

part: snippet
topicId: /m/06by7