Get Details of a Video or Videos — get_video

Get details such as when the video was published, the title, description, thumbnails, category etc.

Usage

get_video_details(
  video_id = NULL,
  part = "snippet",
  as.data.frame = FALSE,
  ...
)

Arguments

video_id: Comma separated list of IDs of the videos for which details are requested. Required.
part: Comma-separated vector of video resource properties requested. Options include: contentDetails, fileDetails, id, liveStreamingDetails, localizations, player, processingDetails, recordingDetails, snippet, statistics, status, suggestions, topicDetails
as.data.frame: Logical, returns the requested information as data.frame. Does not work for: fileDetails, suggestions, processingDetails
...: Additional arguments passed to tuber_GET.

Value

list. If part is snippet, the list will have the following elements: id (video id that was passed), publishedAt, channelId, title, description, thumbnails, channelTitle, categoryId, liveBroadcastContent, localized, defaultAudioLanguage

References

https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/videos/list

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{

# Set API token via yt_oauth() first

get_video_details(video_id = "yJXTXN4xrI8")
get_video_details(video_id = "yJXTXN4xrI8", part = "contentDetails")
# retrieve multiple parameters
get_video_details(video_id = "yJXTXN4xrI8", part = c("contentDetails", "status"))
# get details for multiple videos as data frame
get_video_details(video_id = c("LDZX4ooRsWs", "yJXTXN4xrI8"), as.data.frame = TRUE)
} # }