Searching YouTube by video quality, duration, upload date and keywords?

Question

Although I can easily do this on the YouTube.com advanced search page, I can't seem to get it to work with their API.

E.g.: From the explorer page

Does anyone know the trick to getting this to work?

What do you mean you can't get it to work? What did you try and what did you observe? — Ikai Lan, Jul 08 '13 at 18:24

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 09 '13 at 02:03

You can search by video quality, duration, upload date, and keywords using the Search of the YouTube Data API v3

https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/search

you can use the following filters:

publishedAfter / datetime

publishedBefore / datetime

q / string (keywords)

videoDefinition / string (any /high /standard )

videoDuration / string (any /long /medium /short )

and also you must be careful and set the type parameter as video to specify this filters.

This is a sample call:

Request:

GET https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search?part=snippet&publishedAfter=2011-01-01T00%3A00%3A00Z&q=coke&type=video&videoDefinition=high&videoDuration=short&key={YOUR_API_KEY}

Response:

200 OK

- Show headers -

{
 "kind": "youtube#searchListResponse",
 "etag": "\"rFqCJSkEICLP3Hq6a4AADI7kf48/aTddnYr9r7d0D4Q5PzPGfWpsecI\"",
 "pageInfo": {
  "totalResults": 1000000,
  "resultsPerPage": 5
 },
 "nextPageToken": "CAUQAA",
 "items": [
  {
   "kind": "youtube#searchResult",
   "etag": "\"rFqCJSkEICLP3Hq6a4AADI7kf48/Ej9FPd2YyubbQoYtuBZ_tT1Zjck\"",
   "id": {
    "kind": "youtube#video",
    "videoId": "5T68TvdoSbI"
   },
   "snippet": {
    "publishedAt": "2013-06-20T15:00:35.000Z",
    "channelId": "UC1zZE_kJ8rQHgLTVfobLi_g",
    "title": "Self Freezing Coca-Cola (The trick that works on any soda!)",
    "description": "Take any bottle of soda, and get it to freeze on command! This \"super cool\" trick works with cans of soda as well. To date, I haven't seen any tutorials on e...",
    "thumbnails": {
     "default": {
      "url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/5T68TvdoSbI/default.jpg"
     },
     "medium": {
      "url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/5T68TvdoSbI/mqdefault.jpg"
     },
     "high": {
      "url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/5T68TvdoSbI/hqdefault.jpg"
     }
    },
    "channelTitle": "01032010814"
   }
  },
  {
   "kind": "youtube#searchResult",
   "etag": "\"rFqCJSkEICLP3Hq6a4AADI7kf48/TAH9npB-WK5-tntpUczojivt_nk\"",
   "id": {
    "kind": "youtube#video",
    "videoId": "FaMWxLCGY0U"
   },
   "snippet": {
    "publishedAt": "2011-04-23T00:57:00.000Z",
    "channelId": "UCIgKGGJkt1MrNmhq3vRibYA",
    "title": "Gallium Induced Structural Failure of a Coke Can",
    "description": "We show how a normally strong and robust coke can is turned into the equivalent of wet tissue paper with gallium. If you want some gallium yourself, you can ...",
    "thumbnails": {
     "default": {
      "url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/FaMWxLCGY0U/default.jpg"
     },
     "medium": {
      "url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/FaMWxLCGY0U/mqdefault.jpg"
     },
     "high": {
      "url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/FaMWxLCGY0U/hqdefault.jpg"
     }
    },
    "channelTitle": "NurdRage"
   }
  },
  {
   "kind": "youtube#searchResult",
   "etag": "\"rFqCJSkEICLP3Hq6a4AADI7kf48/ZbkW-ovCwrd7bU0s44Yc6ZNF8uQ\"",
   "id": {
    "kind": "youtube#video",
    "videoId": "KEBJmZL8G1E"
   },
   "snippet": {
    "publishedAt": "2012-06-06T20:16:20.000Z",
    "channelId": "UCosXctaTYxN4YPIvI5Fpcrw",
    "title": "The Most Outrageous Way to Share a Coke",
    "description": "What is the most outrageous way to share a Coke? Watch this video to see what iJustine, Josh TheComputerNerd01 and a few new friends came up with -- an ...",
    "thumbnails": {
     "default": {
      "url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/KEBJmZL8G1E/default.jpg"
     },
     "medium": {
      "url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/KEBJmZL8G1E/mqdefault.jpg"
     },
     "high": {
      "url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/KEBJmZL8G1E/hqdefault.jpg"
     }
    },
    "channelTitle": "cocacola"
   }
  },
  {
   "kind": "youtube#searchResult",
   "etag": "\"rFqCJSkEICLP3Hq6a4AADI7kf48/I04dl1Hbm3FTzhGu8xIbRfHQ5XM\"",
   "id": {
    "kind": "youtube#video",
    "videoId": "b6u9WJ01Oxs"
   },
   "snippet": {
    "publishedAt": "2011-09-28T01:01:55.000Z",
    "channelId": "UCUK0HBIBWgM2c4vsPhkYY4w",
    "title": "EPIC Mentos and Coke - The Slow Mo Guys",
    "description": "Volume UP, Watch in HD! Gav and Dan bring you the most epic mentos and coke video ever. Well, I say epic... It's more accurately the MOST OVERLY DRAMATIC men...",
    "thumbnails": {
     "default": {
      "url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/b6u9WJ01Oxs/default.jpg"
     },
     "medium": {
      "url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/b6u9WJ01Oxs/mqdefault.jpg"
     },
     "high": {
      "url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/b6u9WJ01Oxs/hqdefault.jpg"
     }
    },
    "channelTitle": "theslowmoguys"
   }
  },
  {
   "kind": "youtube#searchResult",
   "etag": "\"rFqCJSkEICLP3Hq6a4AADI7kf48/JlSU5F38dpMSZwynbS2ztIpSNr8\"",
   "id": {
    "kind": "youtube#video",
    "videoId": "gy5hTC1ox9A"
   },
   "snippet": {
    "publishedAt": "2013-05-29T06:22:07.000Z",
    "channelId": "UCDZESjYAwh-ws7ZSZZ8DKeg",
    "title": "2 Liter Diet Coke Challenge (No Burping)",
    "description": "L.A. BEAST responds to a challenge created by fellow competitive eater Matt \"The Megatoad\" Stonie, in which one must drink an entire 2 liter bottle of Diet C...",
    "thumbnails": {
     "default": {
      "url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/gy5hTC1ox9A/default.jpg"
     },
     "medium": {
      "url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/gy5hTC1ox9A/mqdefault.jpg"
     },
     "high": {
      "url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/gy5hTC1ox9A/hqdefault.jpg"
     }
    },
    "channelTitle": "skippy62able"
   }
  }
 ]
}

Searching YouTube by video quality, duration, upload date and keywords?

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