Get title from YouTube videos

Question

I want to extract the Title of YouTube\'s videos. How can I do this?

Thanks.

Answer 1

I'll lay out the process as outlined by the YouTube API v3 documentation.

1. Make a / login to the Google account that you want to be associated with your YouTube API use.

2. Create a new project at https://console.developers.google.com/apis/credentials.

   • On the upper left, next to the Google APIs logo, go to Select a project and Create project +.
   • Wait a moment for the creation to finish.

3. Make a new API key. You'll need it to access video info under v3.

   • If you're not already there, go to Credentials under the navigator on the left hand side, APIs and Services > Credentials.
   • Under the Credentials tab, click Create Credentials and select API key.
   • Copy the API key to your clipboard.
4. Providing a video ID and your newly created API key, go to this link to see your work in action: https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/videos?id=&key=%20&part=snippet (no angle brackets)
   • For more info on what you can access, see here: https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/getting-started#partial. For convenience, I'll copy one of their examples here (Example 4). The fields and part parameters in the URL are key here.

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Example

The URL is, well, what URL you can go to through your browser to check it out. In return, you should get what's under API response:.

URL: https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/videos?id=7lCDEYXw3mM&key=YOUR_API_KEY
     &fields=items(id,snippet(channelId,title,categoryId),statistics)&part=snippet,statistics

Description: This example modifies the fields parameter from example 3
             so that in the API response, each video resource's snippet
             object only includes the channelId, title,
             and categoryId properties.

API response:

{
 "videos": [
  {
   "id": "7lCDEYXw3mM",
   "snippet": {
    "channelId": "UC_x5XG1OV2P6uZZ5FSM9Ttw",
    "title": "Google I/O 101: Q&A On Using Google APIs",
    "categoryId": "28"
   },
   "statistics": {
    "viewCount": "3057",
    "likeCount": "25",
    "dislikeCount": "0",
    "favoriteCount": "17",
    "commentCount": "12"
   }
  }
 ]
}

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This gives you video info in the .json file format. If your project is to access this info through JavaScript, you may be going here next: How to get JSON from URL in Javascript?.