For example, how could I get a JSON response of all the videos from channel "http://www.youtube.com/nba" that are tagged "playoffs"?
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1if all else fails you can scrape this: http://www.youtube.com/results?search=tag&suggested_categories=17&search_query=%40nba – Assaf Lavie May 14 '11 at 13:24
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1I think you should mark the most voted answer as correct... – Lipis May 03 '12 at 18:25
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@Lipis it is my own answer. :) – ahmet alp balkan Dec 17 '12 at 03:15
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Working solution: http://stackoverflow.com/a/30125715/975169, by the way for gettting channelId look here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14366648/how-can-i-get-a-channel-id-from-youtube – Enginer Feb 27 '16 at 18:07
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YouTube calls tags as categories.
The following URL shows videos from NBA channel with tags playoffs and sports (you can add more obviously) in JSON.
http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/nba/uploads/-/sports/playoffs?v=2&alt=json
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I tried this, but most of my tagged videos does not appear in the result. I have found [this track](https://code.google.com/p/gdata-issues/issues/detail?id=4247#makechanges) in Youtube Issues and I think that bug persists. – hugofcampos Nov 25 '13 at 19:10
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Try something like this:
http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/nba/uploads?q=playoffs
but this is xml format, look the api document and do it as json by yourself.
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Thanks yuli chika! This is very close to what I am looking for and may work. But, my goal is to search by tag and not by "q" (http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/2.0/reference.html#qsp) as your example shows. Any idea how to search by tag? – edt May 09 '11 at 18:31
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I think you're looking for the category-parameter. I ran a quick test to see how well it matches. Here's the result (yes, the page will load for a few seconds).
This link will show you the results and how well they match 'playoffs' with the keywords, when using category.This link will show you the results when using the q-parameter.
So, I guess the link you're looking for is:
http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/nba/uploads?category=playoffs&alt=json
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