The following examples demonstrate how to complete several different types of search requests in the v3 API.
Videos
This example calls the search.list
method to find the most viewed, high-definition (HD) videos associated with the query "skateboarding dog." The query sets the order
, part
, q
, type
, and videoDefinition
parameters.
https://developers.google.com/apis-explorer/#p/youtube/v3/youtube.search.list? part=snippet &order=viewCount &q=skateboarding+dog &type=video &videoDefinition=high
See the search.list
method's documentation for code samples.
Playlists
This example shows how to find playlists matching the query term "GoogleDevelopers." It calls the search.list
method and sets the type
parameter's value to playlist
so that the result set only includes playlists.
https://developers.google.com/apis-explorer/#p/youtube/v3/youtube.search.list? part=snippet &q=GoogleDevelopers &type=playlist
Channels
This example shows how to find channels matching the query term "travel." It calls the search.list
method and sets the type
parameter's value to channel
so that the result set only includes channels.
https://developers.google.com/apis-explorer/#p/youtube/v3/youtube.search.list? part=snippet &q=travel &type=channel
Results relevant to a specific language
This example calls the search.list
method to find search results that are most relevant to a specific language. The example shows that the query term is marine (q=marine
) and that the API response should contain results most relevant to the French language (relevanceLanguage=fr
).
https://developers.google.com/apis-explorer/#p/youtube/v3/youtube.search.list? part=snippet &q=marine &relevanceLanguage=fr
Note that the request does not set a value for the type
parameter, which means each search result could reference a video, playlist, or channel.
Videos uploaded via the developer's app or website
This example shows how to use the forDeveloper
parameter to restrict a search to only retrieve videos uploaded via the developer's application or website. This parameter can be used in conjunction with optional search parameters, like the q
parameter.
Note: This query does not actually return results in the APIs Explorer because the APIs Explorer doesn't support video uploads. You can run this query for your own application outside of the APIs Explorer, but you can't get results for your application using the APIs Explorer.
Each uploaded video is automatically tagged with the project number that is associated with the developer's application in the Google API Console.
When a search request subsequently sets the forDeveloper
parameter to true, the API service uses the request's authorization credentials to identify the developer. Thus, a developer can restrict results to videos uploaded through the developer's own app or website but not to videos uploaded through other apps or sites.
https://developers.google.com/apis-explorer/#p/youtube/v3/youtube.search.list? part=snippet &q=fun &forDeveloper=true
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Last updated 2022-11-04 UTC.