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contentDetails or duration not coming using Youtube v3 api

rated 0 times [ 147] [ 3] / answers: 1 / hits: 18284 / 10 Years ago, wed, december 10, 2014, 12:00:00

Look at this link , there is an example given

https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/videos?id=7lCDEYXw3mM&key=YOUR_API_KEY

 &part=snippet,contentDetails,statistics,status

Part of the response is

contentDetails: {

    duration: PT15M51S,

    aspectRatio: RATIO_16_9

   },

Now I want to retrieve contentDetails or mainly duration. So I called using

https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search?part=snippet,contentDetails&key=[API_KEY]&q=something&maxResults=15&&fields=items,nextPageToken,prevPageToken,tokenPagination

It shows

{

error: {

errors: [

{

domain: youtube.part,

reason: unknownPart,

message: contentDetails,

locationType: parameter,

location: part

}

],

code: 400,

message: contentDetails

}

}

Why? What am I missing? How to retrieve the duration for videos?

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answered 10 Years ago aidan · Accepted Answer

As you've already found out, the Search:list call does not support contentDetails for the part parameter.

The part names that you can include in the parameter value for Search:list are id and snippet, and those return very little data. We're supposed to use that very little data from a search if we want to get more specific data on a video or videos.

So, to get a video duration when doing a search, you'll have to make a call like

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

and extract the videoId from the response items

id: {

kind: youtube#video,

videoId: 5hzgS9s-tE8

}

and use that to make the Videos:list call to get more specific data

https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/videos?id=5hzgS9s-tE8&key=YOUR_API_KEY&part=snippet,contentDetails,statistics,status

and extract the duration from the response data

 contentDetails: {

 duration: PT15M51S,

 aspectRatio: RATIO_16_9

 },