How to get content details in YouTube Search API v3 ? (Swift)

Question

I am using this to get the information of the video such title and image.

var urlString = "https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search?part=snippet&fields=items(id,snippet(title,channelTitle,thumbnails))&order=viewCount&q=\(text)&type=video&maxResults=25&key=\(apiKey)"

This above URL will return a JSON.

     ["items": <__NSArrayI 0x1c41b03e0>(
{
    id =     {
        kind = "youtube#video";
        videoId = n3T3K2MHNjM;
    };
    snippet =     {
        channelTitle = "Ty Dolla $ign";
        thumbnails =         {
            default =             {
                height = 90;
                url = "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/n3T3K2MHNjM/default.jpg";
                width = 120;
            };
            high =             {
                height = 360;
                url = "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/n3T3K2MHNjM/hqdefault.jpg";
                width = 480;
            };
            medium =             {
                height = 180;
                url = "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/n3T3K2MHNjM/mqdefault.jpg";
                width = 320;
            };
        };
        title = "Ty Dolla $ign & Future - Darkside feat. Kiiara (from Bright: The Album) [Official Audio]";
    };
},

but there is no content details in the JSON I would like to access the content details since its contains the duration of the video which i needed. I had try to access with url like this by inserting the contentDetails into the URL but it is not working.

var urlString = "https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search?part=snippet&fields=items(id,contentDetails,snippet(title,channelTitle,thumbnails))&order=viewCount&q=\(text)&type=video&maxResults=25&key=\(apiKey)"

How can i retrieve the content details also ?

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 14 '17 at 08:35

The search API v3 does not have the duration in the search API , you need use the video API to get the video information.

var urlString = "https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/videos?key=\(apiKey)&part=contentDetails&id="

Use this URL and then add in the id behind like this U4_Os5LNVjg, s23mnsidmm for multiple ID and then use this to convert the duration format from YouTube How to Convert duration form youtube api in swift?

How to get content details in YouTube Search API v3 ? (Swift)

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