How to retrieve like/dislike/view count from Youtube?

Question

I want to get some minimal statistic Information from a youtube-video for "like", "dislike", "view" count. However, i got so far, that i can retrieve the JSON for the Videoinformation, but there is none of the above mentioned information.

Possible duplicate: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18530618/retrieve-public-statistics-of-video-via-youtube-api — Brandon White, Oct 05 '15 at 02:34

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 13 '15 at 05:23

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So, without using the Google API and and doing any O-AUTH, i am just parsing the website and getting like count and title.

import requests import re

filesInChannel = [
"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYuNBFdwK7k",
"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ox9MvottBI"
]

def getStats(link):
    page = requests.get(link)
    likes = re.search("with (\d*.\d*.\d*)", page.text).group(1)
    title = re.search("property=\"og:title\" content=\"([^\n]*)", page.text).group(1)
    return (likes, title)


for link in filesInChannel:
    stats = getStats(link)
    print stats[0].encode("utf-8") + " " + stats[1].encode("utf-8")

answered Oct 13 '15 at 05:23

user1767754

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To add more information, you just have to add more regex search statements – user1767754 Oct 13 '15 at 19:45
Given I do not know the video Id, If I want to get views by simply creating search queries, I get a list of options to choose from. Can that window be sorted by Views so that I can filter the highest view? – Rajarshi Bhadra Sep 20 '16 at 15:40
how many urls can you scrap with this method? is it possible to use it for thousands of videos? – l3est Dec 17 '20 at 09:56

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Oct 12 '17 at 23:04

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Have you tried videos/getRating

Valid values for this property are:

dislike

like

none

unspecified

Example:

GET https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/videos/getRating?id=test>&key=<key>

edited Oct 12 '17 at 23:04

Maxim Belkin

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answered Oct 05 '15 at 09:23

Linda Lawton - DaImTo

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will this only work when i am the admin of the video? – user1767754 Oct 05 '15 at 15:19
Yes it requires authentication – Linda Lawton - DaImTo Oct 05 '15 at 15:19
@user1767754 they mean an authentication key. you can create one at google developers – InitializeSahib Aug 15 '16 at 01:48

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 26 '18 at 17:56

The following query using the youtubeAnalytics.reports.query portion of the YouTube Analytics API v1 will return the count of views, likes, and dislike counts for the channel and time span specified:

GET https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/analytics/v1/reports?ids=channel=={CHANNEL_ID}&start-date=2018-02-18&end-date=2018-03-26&metrics=views,likes,dislikes&key={YOUR_API_KEY}

Running the query does require the user to be authorized. You can use the APIs Explorer to test and modify the above query.

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