Youtube GData 2 thousand most viewed

Question

I want to catch the 1 thousand most viewed youtube videos through gdata youtube api.

However, only the first 84 are being returned.

If I use the following query, only 34 records are returned (plus the first 50).

Anyone knows what is wrong?

"http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/standardfeeds/most_popular?start-index=1" returns 25 records

"http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/standardfeeds/most_popular?start-index=26" returns 25 records

"http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/standardfeeds/most_popular?start-index=51" returns 25 records

"http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/standardfeeds/most_popular?start-index=76" returns 9 records

Hi Tim, I inserted the queries. – julianofischer Oct 15 '12 at 01:54 — julianofischer, Oct 15 '12 at 01:54

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 15 '12 at 09:13

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YouTube will not provide this to you. They intentionally rate limit their feeds to prevent abuse.

answered Oct 15 '12 at 09:13

Tim McNamara

According to the gdata documentation, the limit number of feeds is one thousand. – julianofischer Oct 15 '12 at 16:24

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