youtube api v3 - get videos from a playlist with view count data ordered by number of views

Question

I want to get all the videos from a playlist with statistics data like viewCount and the videos should be ordered by number of video views. So far I have managed the following:

https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/playlistItems?part=snippet&playlistId=UUbW18JZRgko_mOGm5er8Yzg&key={YOUR_KEY_HERE}&maxResults=50

In the youtube api v2 we can pass part=statistics to get the view count but this is not working with v3 playlists. How can I get the above the video data in the above mentioned format.

Answer 1

From the results of playlistItems.list call, collect the video ids, make a comma-separated list and set it as id parameter of videos.list call. That call will give you the data you need.