Sorting Youtube API result from playlist

Question

I have been struggling with Youtube\'s API v3 now and I can\'t get it work in the way I want. My goal is to load the latest videos from a selected playlist into my website.

Answer 1

I had the same issue .. instead of using the API to get the newest first (there doesn't appear to be a way to do this), why don't you just sort the videos inside your playlist first, then use the API which will return them in the order they appear in the playlist.

Something like this: https://community.tubepress.com/topic/5624-how-to-customize-sort-order-of-youtube-playlists/

Answer 2

This does seem to be a limitation currently of the YouTube API and seems quite short-sighted by its creators.

This doesn't solve your exact problem, but for others having a similar problem, I found that using the 'search' query you can order to a certain extent.

This helped me order a playlist (not playlistItems) query by searching for playlists rather than requesting a list of playlists. Thus my query:

https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/playlists?part=snippet&maxResults=20&channelId={channelID}&key={API_KEY}

became:

https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search?part=snippet&type=video&order=date&safeSearch=none&maxResults=20&channelId={channelID}&key={API_KEY}

You can also search for videos and query terms and several other parameters, so maybe you can get the results you want this way.

Answer 3

This is the only option right now available. Instead of trying to sort video list from the Http request Url, you can sort the order in the youtube account's playlist setting.

In the Playlist setting you can either manually drag and change the list or there is a option to change the order. Youtube Data API will output the data as the playlist shows the data.

Summary : change the playlist order in youtube account instead trying to filter data using http requests.

FYI: playlist settings can be only changed by the uploader's account Hope this helps.

Answer 4

The current API doesn't have a sorting option for listing playlist items, but if you are inserting the items programmatically, you can specify the position value when inserting to make new videos appear at the top of the list.

If it's someone else that is adding the videos, than you'll have to get all pages. Since the playlists are limited to 200 items, this requires 4 requests at most. Not ideal, but it's the only option now.