Retrieving individual videos view count - Youtube API V3.0 - JavaScript

Question

I\'ve been trying to get the view count on videos that I query through the following method:

      function search() {
        var request = gapi.client.yout         


        

Answer 1

Agree with the answer provided by @Als.

But I found a code snippet which might be more convenient for some of you:

function youtube_view_count_shortcode($params)
{
 $videoID = $params['id']; // view id here 
 $json = file_get_contents("https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/videos? 
 part=statistics&id=" . $videoID . "&key=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx");
 $jsonData = json_decode($json);
 $views = $jsonData->items[0]->statistics->viewCount;
 return number_format($views);
}

Replace the key value with the google api key for youtube data API and the video id with the youtube video id and Voila you get the total number of views for the youtube video.

Source: https://www.codementor.io/rajharajesuwari/how-to-get-youtube-views-count-aftojpxhj

Answer 2

The link you gave https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/videos/list#try-it is working for me. To get duration and viewCount: Fill in for part: contentDetails,statistics and for id: a comma-separated-list of video-id's like: TruIq5IxuiU,-VoFbH8jTzE,RPNDXrAvAMg,gmQmYc9-zcg

This will create a request as:

GET https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/videos?part=contentDetails,statistics&id=TruIq5IxuiU,-VoFbH8jTzE,RPNDXrAvAMg,gmQmYc9-zcg&key={YOUR_API_KEY}