YouTube API Tutorial

Author: CoreyMSchafer

Python/YouTube-API/03-Most-Popular-Video-Playlist/start.py

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+importos
+fromgoogleapiclient.discoveryimportbuild
+
+api_key=os.environ.get('YT_API_KEY')
+
+youtube=build('youtube', 'v3', developerKey=api_key)
+
+playlist_id='PL8uoeex94UhHFRew8gzfFJHIpRFWyY4YW'
+
+videos= []
+
+nextPageToken=None
+whileTrue:
+pl_request=youtube.playlistItems().list(
+part='contentDetails',
+playlistId=playlist_id,
+maxResults=50,
+pageToken=nextPageToken
+ )
+
+pl_response=pl_request.execute()
+
+vid_ids= []
+foriteminpl_response['items']:
+vid_ids.append(item['contentDetails']['videoId'])
+
+vid_request=youtube.videos().list(
+part="statistics",
+id=','.join(vid_ids)
+ )
+
+vid_response=vid_request.execute()
+
+foriteminvid_response['items']:
+vid_views=item['statistics']['viewCount']
+
+vid_id=item['id']
+yt_link=f'https://youtu.be/{vid_id}'
+
+videos.append(
+{
+'views': int(vid_views),
+'url': yt_link
+ }
+ )
+
+nextPageToken=pl_response.get('nextPageToken')
+
+ifnotnextPageToken:
+break
+
+videos.sort(key=lambdavid: vid['views'], reverse=True)
+
+forvideoinvideos[:10]:
+print(video['url'], video['views'])