Youtube API 3.0 search videos and get video statistics at single request

Question

I'm searching youtube videos with youtube api 3.0.

I'm using this type of example API request

https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search?part=snippet&key=[API_KEY]

But i want to get statistics of videos with in the same api request. How to solve this problem.

Note: When I'm using statistics key with part. I got error.

I'm also tried this request

https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search?part=snippet,statistics&key=[API_KEY]

Answer 1

The resource search.list don't have the part statistics.

Step 1 :

You need to get the videoId of the video: "videoId": "UHdgXkkVyl0" with search.list.

The request :

https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search?part=id&q=tuto&type=video&key={YOUR_API_KEY}

The response:

 "items": [
  {
   "kind": "youtube#searchResult",
   "etag": "\"MmqJLb8ZBOWRQIsg7xej7lrKLMI/34CzOO9FXYQg7kdlOeoe59LsWVk\"",
   "id": {
    "kind": "youtube#video",
    "videoId": "UHdgXkkVyl0"
   }
  },
  {
   "kind": "youtube#searchResult",
   "etag": "\"MmqJLb8ZBOWRQIsg7xej7lrKLMI/U303dB0TgZ89ODlqdwuKs5efOdk\"",
   "id": {
    "kind": "youtube#video",
    "videoId": "LvEA2KHWQec"
   }
  },

Step 2 :

After you have searched videos with search.list you need to make a second call to the API with the resource video.list with parameters :

part: statistics
id: "id of the video found in previous request"

• If you have more than one video id you can specify the id of videos with a comma-separated list like :

  id: "Xxsdw6zG1bg, Xxsdw6zG1bg,...." )

The request: https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/videos?part=statistics&id=UHdgXkkVyl0%2C+Xxsdw6zG1bg&key={YOUR_API_KEY}

The response will be like this :

{
 "kind": "youtube#videoListResponse",
 "etag": "\"MmqJLb8ZBOWRQIsg7xej7lrKLMI/rxvjZzq2nNqBg7Me5VQv1ToZm64\"",
 "pageInfo": {
  "totalResults": 2,
  "resultsPerPage": 2
 },
 "items": [
  {

   "kind": "youtube#video",
   "etag": "\"MmqJLb8ZBOWRQIsg7xej7lrKLMI/3fah-cngFxFOnytseMYZU1TK_-8\"",
   "id": "UHdgXkkVyl0",
   "statistics": {
    "viewCount": "3070836",
    "likeCount": "72140",
    "dislikeCount": "1132",
    "favoriteCount": "0",
    "commentCount": "7798"
   }
  },
  {

   "kind": "youtube#video",
   "etag": "\"MmqJLb8ZBOWRQIsg7xej7lrKLMI/J4xM7Dd23TGYU6on-PESyEIAE9A\"",
   "id": "Xxsdw6zG1bg",
   "statistics": {
    "viewCount": "131487",
    "likeCount": "1459",
    "dislikeCount": "25",
    "favoriteCount": "0",
    "commentCount": "39"
   }
  }
 ]
}

And you have the statistics !