How to fetch share count of youtube video using YouTube Analytics API v3?

Question

I m trying to fetch share count of youtube video using YouTube Analytics API v3. I am using google php client library to upload videos. I am able to find count of likes, dislikes, etc using this url:

https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/videos?part=statistics&id=Nyk_ltlr6pc&key={APP_KEY}

But not able to find any such resource to fetch count of share.

I have seen this post: How to get share count of a youtube video using youtube api?

But I am unable to get anything from this post, as this post is old and it is using YouTube Analytics API v1 compare to current YouTube Analytics API v3.

Kindly guide me. Thank you.

Answer 1

I know it's late, but still I think I should share the code, so if any need person looking for such functionality similar to this, it would help him.

set_include_path($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/library/Youtube/src/');

require_once 'Google/autoload.php';
require_once 'Google/Client.php';
require_once 'Google/Service/YouTube.php';

session_start();

$startdate = <DATE_WHEN_YOUR_GET_UPLOADED>;
$video_id = <YOUR_VIDEO_ID>;
$video_id = "video==" .$video_id;

$key = file_get_contents('the_key.txt'); //YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN

$OAUTH2_CLIENT_ID = <YOUR_OAUTH2_CLIENT_ID>;
$OAUTH2_CLIENT_SECRET = <YOUR_OAUTH2_CLIENT_SECRET>;

$scope = array("https://www.googleapis.com/auth/youtube.force-ssl", "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/youtubepartner-channel-audit", "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/youtube", "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/youtube.readonly", "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/yt-analytics.readonly", "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/yt-analytics-monetary.readonly","https://www.googleapis.com/auth/youtubepartner");

try{
    // Client init
    $client = new Google_Client();
    $client->setClientId($OAUTH2_CLIENT_ID);
    $client->setClientSecret($OAUTH2_CLIENT_SECRET);
    $client->setAccessType('offline');
    $client->setAccessToken($key);
    $client->setScopes($scope);

    if ($client->getAccessToken()) {        
    //Check to see if our access token has expired. If so, get a new one and save it to file for future use.

        if($client->isAccessTokenExpired()) {
            //refresh your access token if it's expired
            $newToken = json_decode($client->getAccessToken());
            $client->refreshToken($newToken->refresh_token);
            file_put_contents('the_key.txt', $client->getAccessToken());
        }

        $analytics = new Google_Service_YouTubeAnalytics($client);

        $channel_id = <YOUR_CHANNEL_ID>;
        $ids = 'channel=='.$channel_id;
        $end_date = date("Y-m-d"); //current date 
        $start_date = startdate; //date when you uploaded your video
        $optparams = array(
            'filters' => $video_id,
        );

        $metric = 'likes,shares'; //what you want to fetch

        $api = $analytics->reports->query($ids, $start_date, $end_date, $metric, $optparams);
        print_r(json_encode($api->rows[0]));

    } else{
        // @TODO Log error
        echo 'Problems creating the client';
    }
}catch (Google_Service_Exception $e) {
    echo sprintf('<p>A service error occurred: <code>%s</code></p>',htmlspecialchars($e->getMessage()));
}

Kindly feel free to review my code and suggest any suitable changes.