Menu
I'm confused as to where I can find the date a youtube video was uploaded. I've been using the following two functions:
$videoEntry->getUpdated()->getText();
$videoEntry->getVideoRecorded()
The first is when the video was last updated, and I'm not so sure that is the same as when it was uploaded. The "video recorded" is not always present. I assume its taken from camera metadata.
I need the date it was uploaded to the youtube website. Thanks.
399
The API provides the ability to retrieve feeds related to videos, users, and playlists. It also provides the ability to manipulate these feeds, such as creating new playlists, adding videos as favorites, and sending messsages.
By clicking on the description you can find the exact date of a youtube video. To know which date the video was uploaded and in which year, go to the description of that video, then you will see the date of publishing the video at the top.
From the YouTube API Reference Guide.
"The <yt:uploaded> tag specifies the time that a playlist entry was originally uploaded to YouTube."
If you just browse the feed file for a particular video, such as http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/bTL5bErRk-g, you can see the uploaded date in the "published" tag, near the top:
<entry>
<id>http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/bTL5bErRk-g</id>
<published>2009-08-02T13:59:54.000Z</published>
<updated>2009-10-29T11:20:11.000Z</updated>
...
Whatever 'published' technically means to YouTube, that's my video, and I can confirm that that's when I uploaded it.
200
I was actually hoping for an answer through the PHP API specifically. None of the functions in the documentation were working, though I was able to get the date uploaded from PHP like so:
$videoEntry->mediaGroup->uploaded->text
Latest Youtube API supports date.
https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/search/list#examples
25
For Youtube V3, it's something like this:
https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/videos?part=snippet&id=(youtube_video_id)&key=(your_oauth_key)
"publishedAt" seems to have the date and time of publication in UTC timezone
28
If you love us? You can donate to us via Paypal or buy me a coffee so we can maintain and grow! Thank you!
Donate Us With
