I'm trying to get the view counts for Youtube videos.
"snippet": {
"publishedAt": datetime,
"channelId": string,
"title": string,
"description": string,
"thumbnails": {
(key): {
"url": string,
"width": unsigned integer,
"height": unsigned integer
}
},
"channelTitle": string,
"tags": [
string
],
"categoryId": string,
"liveBroadcastContent": string,
"defaultAudioLanguage": string
},
"statistics": {
"viewCount": unsigned long,
"likeCount": unsigned long,
"dislikeCount": unsigned long,
"favoriteCount": unsigned long,
"commentCount": unsigned long
This is the JSON that needs parsing. I found a tutorial online with snippet correctly parsed like so:
performGetRequest(targetURL, completion: { (data, HTTPStatusCode, error) -> Void in
if HTTPStatusCode == 200 && error == nil {
// Convert the JSON data to a dictionary object.
let resultsDict = (try! NSJSONSerialization.JSONObjectWithData(data!, options: [])) as! Dictionary<NSObject, AnyObject>
// Get all search result items ("items" array).
let items: Array<Dictionary<NSObject, AnyObject>> = resultsDict["items"] as! Array<Dictionary<NSObject, AnyObject>>
// Loop through all search results and keep just the necessary data.
for var i=0; i<items.count; ++i {
let snippetDict = items[i]["snippet"] as! Dictionary<NSObject, AnyObject>
// let statisticsDict = items[i]["statistics"] as! Dictionary<NSObject, AnyObject>
// Create a new dictionary to store the video details.
var videoDetailsDict = Dictionary<NSObject, AnyObject>()
videoDetailsDict["title"] = snippetDict["title"]
videoDetailsDict["channelTitle"] = snippetDict["channelTitle"]
videoDetailsDict["thumbnail"] = ((snippetDict["thumbnails"] as! Dictionary<NSObject, AnyObject>)["default"] as! Dictionary<NSObject, AnyObject>)["url"]
videoDetailsDict["videoID"] = (items[i]["id"] as! Dictionary<NSObject, AnyObject>)["videoId"]
// videoDetailsDict["viewCount"] = statisticsDict["viewCount"]
// Append the desiredPlaylistItemDataDict dictionary to the videos array.
self.videosArray.append(videoDetailsDict)
You can see my attempts at trying to get the statistics data by doing the some type of parsing shown here for snippet but I have no luck, the result is alway nil for "viewCount" in videoDetailsDict.
What am I doing wrong?
