Getting the "videoId" from a YouTube video using YouTubeV3-API

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As the title suggests I am trying to get the "videoId" from a YouTube video.

Currently this is my code, it can be replicated.

import requests

channel_id = "UCfjTZZ3iqy24oSg-bmi2waw"
api_key = ""

api_url = f"https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search?part=snippet&channelId={channel_id}&maxResults=1&order=date&type=video&key={api_key}"

request = requests.get(api_url).text


print(request)

When doing this method it returns me this:
result from requests.get(api_url).text

If I were to do this

print(request["videoId"])

It would return me this

TypeError: string indices must be integers, not ‘str’

Am I just doing it wrong? Even if I try requesting a higher key it returns the same error message.

Asked By: xJo

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Answer 1

You need to parse the received JSON and to precise the path of the entry you are looking for, see the code below:

import requests, json

channel_id = "UCfjTZZ3iqy24oSg-bmi2waw"
api_key = ""

api_url = f"https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search?part=snippet&channelId={channel_id}&maxResults=1&order=date&type=video&key={api_key}"

request = json.loads(requests.get(api_url).text)


print(request["items"][0]["id"]["videoId"])

Answered By: Benjamin Loison

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