Youtube API: Get videos from autogenerated channels (like Music)

Question

Is there any way to get the videos from autogenerated channels (like this one https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-9-kyTW8ZkZNDHQJ6FgpwQ/videos) directly, without having to access all the playlists?

Using https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search?part=snippet&channelId=UC-9-kyTW8ZkZNDHQJ6FgpwQ&key=... gives me 0 items.

DaImTo DaImTo · Accepted Answer · 2017-10-30T13:52:42

Gives me 0 Items

If you mean running the following exactly

 https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search?part=snippet&channelId=UC-9-kyTW8ZkZNDHQJ6FgpwQ&key=

Returns the following error

{
 "error": {
  "errors": [
   {
    "domain": "usageLimits",
    "reason": "keyInvalid",
    "message": "Bad Request"
   }
  ],
  "code": 400,
  "message": "Bad Request"
 }
}

That is because you have neglected to add an API key on the end.

Try testing in the query explorer this seams to return quite a few no idea if its all of them.

GET https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search?part=snippet&channelId=UC-9-kyTW8ZkZNDHQJ6FgpwQ&maxResults=25&key={YOUR_API_KEY}

returns

 "pageInfo": {
  "totalResults": 786,
  "resultsPerPage": 25
 },

This apears to return a list of the playlists only for this user.

Update:

If you try and only request videos for this user you get 0 returned. This is not the case for any other user which i have tested.

GET https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search?part=snippet&channelId=UC-9-kyTW8ZkZNDHQJ6FgpwQ&maxResults=50&order=date&type=video&key={YOUR_API_KEY}

This leads me to believe that it is not possible to retrieve the videos for an autogenerated channel. I recommend either logging this as a bug or adding it as a feature request here. Personally i think its more a feature request.

Youtube API: Get videos from autogenerated channels (like Music)

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