Missing metrics and data in YouTube

[Tomas Kapler]

There are 2 big problems (at least for me) with YouTube data

1. the key metric for Channels - Subscribers count - is missing (or i am blind) - there is Subscribers Gained, Subscribers lost, but not total

2. there are two options for channels selections - Total and Top videos. But i need Latest videos!

[Mikael Thuneberg]

1. Total subscribers is not made available by Google: https://developers.google.com/youtube/analytics/v1/dimsmets/mets

2. There's no simple way for us to get the latest videos. Google offers a top videos option, but for latest videos, we would need to fetch all your videos, then check the creation date for each and return the latest ones. Many of our users have thousands of videos, so this would require a huge amount of API requests, and we could easily exceed the daily quotas we have for the YT API. So I think unless Google provides a better way to get this data, we are not going to add that option.

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[Tomas Kapler]

1. it is actually available in channel statistics https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/channels 

2. oh i see, you are using just youtube analytics api, not youtube data api - i was doing it using https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/search/list (as in my http://kapler.cz/automaticke-statistiky-videi-diky-google-sheets-apps-script-a-youtube-data-api/). For basics data it is even possible to do it for videos of competitor channels, only channel name/id is needed

[Mikael Thuneberg]

Nice, we'll check if we could implement this, thanks for the tips! Currently using YT analytics API only.

On 28 September 2016 at 10:20, Tomas Kapler <kap...@gmail.com> wrote:

1. it is actually available in channel statistics https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/channels 

2. oh i see, you are using just youtube analytics api, not youtube data api - i was doing it using https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/search/list (as in my http://kapler.cz/automaticke-statistiky-videi-diky-google-sheets-apps-script-a-youtube-data-api/). For basics data it is even possible to do it for videos of competitor channels, only channel name/id is needed

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[Tomas Kapler]

great, will i get few months free? :-) I believe i will find other problems and possible improvement in some of your apis (i have already reported wrong youtube videos url - maybe it is also because of using analytics instead of data api). With youtube data api you could even use https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/search/list (where it is possible to order videos by popularity, rating etc.), and return other interesting data like thumbnails, description, tags, categories etc.¨

 

The biggest advantage for this is the possibility for using it to measure also some basic competitors data. And the same could be possible for other sources - e.g. i facebook/twitter likes/subscribers, list of posts with their basic stats etc. I'm using it for my clients in their dashboards and it is probably the most popular feature of it (especialy when i do daily updates, so they can compare not only current situation, but also the progress

if i would have some more time, i could play with adobe analytics (we are adobe partners), mailchimp api (we are partners too) etc. and give you my feedback (also with GA as we are premium partners, but i think you got it covered quite well)

P.S.:  also if you would have some your "API" how to define new sources, i could come up and prepare some other interesting sources (e.g. Piwik, Harvest, Slack to name the few from what i play with here)