unable to get top 10 videos of my youtube channel according to likes through youtube api

Question

What i am trying is, to get top 10 videos of my Youtube channel based on likes using analytics api v1.

To get based on views

GET https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/analytics/v1/reports?ids=channel%3D%3DMINE&start-date=2005-05-01&end-date=2014-06-30&metrics=estimatedMinutesWatched%2Cviews%2Clikes%2Cshares&dimensions=video&max-results=10&sort=-views&key={YOUR_API_KEY}

this end point is used where sort=-views is the sorting factor.

I am doing the same way to sort based on likes sort=-likes

But I am getting error response

400 Bad Request


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{
 "error": {
  "errors": [
   {
    "domain": "global",
    "reason": "badRequest",
    "message": "The query is not supported. Check the documentation at https://developers.google.com/youtube/analytics/v1/available_reports for a list of supported queries."
   }
  ],
  "code": 400,
  "message": "The query is not supported. Check the documentation at https://developers.google.com/youtube/analytics/v1/available_reports for a list of supported queries."
 }
}

By hit and trial i came to know the sort=-views and sort=-estimatedMinutesWatched are working but others i.e. likes,comments etc are not working. What is the possible reason? Any other way to do this?

Answer 1

Check your sort parameter based on the supported parameters from documentation.

So far, these are the supported filters:

• views
• redViews
• estimatedRevenue
• estimatedRedPartnerRevenue
• estimatedMinutesWatched
• estimatedRedMinutesWatched
• subscribersGained
• subscribersLost

Also if this could help, I think you can try Videos: getRating.

Retrieves the ratings that the authorized user gave to a list of specified videos.

But this method is basing on the ratings not the actual likes, but one of the following:

• dislike
• like
• none
• unspecified

See this SO post for further reference.