Fetch Data of a YouTube Video using Google API | Python

The YouTube Data API v3 allows developers to access a wealth of information about videos, channels, and playlists. In this tutorial, we'll write a simple Python script to fetch details like the description, view count, and tags for a specific video.

The Code

We will use the google-api-python-client library. The script authenticates using a client_secret.json file (OAuth 2.0) and retrieves the contentDetails, statistics, and snippet parts of the video resource.

PYTHON

import os
import google_auth_oauthlib.flow
import googleapiclient.discovery
import googleapiclient.errors

# Define the permissions needed
scopes = ["https://www.googleapis.com/auth/youtube.force-ssl"]

def main():
    api_service_name = "youtube"
    api_version = "v3"
    client_secrets_file = "client_secret.json"

    # Authenticate user
    flow = google_auth_oauthlib.flow.InstalledAppFlow.from_client_secrets_file(client_secrets_file, scopes)
    credentials = flow.run_console()
    
    # Build the service object
    youtube = googleapiclient.discovery.build(api_service_name, api_version, credentials=credentials)

    # Request video data
    part_string = 'contentDetails,statistics,snippet'
    videoid = "YOUR_VIDEO_ID_HERE" # Replace with actual ID
    
    response = youtube.videos().list(part=part_string, id=videoid).execute()
    
    print(response)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()