YouTube API Tutorial

Author: CoreyMSchafer

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

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+import os
+from googleapiclient.discovery import build
+
+api_key = os.environ.get('YT_API_KEY')
+
+youtube = build('youtube', 'v3', developerKey=api_key)
+
+playlist_id = 'PL8uoeex94UhHFRew8gzfFJHIpRFWyY4YW'
+
+videos = []
+
+nextPageToken = None
+while True:
+    pl_request = youtube.playlistItems().list(
+        part='contentDetails',
+        playlistId=playlist_id,
+        maxResults=50,
+        pageToken=nextPageToken
+    )
+
+    pl_response = pl_request.execute()
+
+    vid_ids = []
+    for item in pl_response['items']:
+        vid_ids.append(item['contentDetails']['videoId'])
+
+    vid_request = youtube.videos().list(
+        part="statistics",
+        id=','.join(vid_ids)
+    )
+
+    vid_response = vid_request.execute()
+
+    for item in vid_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')
+
+    if not nextPageToken:
+        break
+
+videos.sort(key=lambda vid: vid['views'], reverse=True)
+
+for video in videos[:10]:
+    print(video['url'], video['views'])