Very dissapointed with Youtube API
I was doing a research on their API just to program a quick monitoring tool from trendings, but what was my surprise to find that I cant really filter data the way I wanted and typically the way that technology is suppose to work.
My plan was to:
My surprise is that its all the same, doesnt matter if I used the API call for most popular (/most_popular?v=2), most ranked, most dicussed(/most_discussed?v=2), and top favorites. I just confirmed that its all the same. I cant deny, API provides realtime data but I needed more.
Well, I felt bad and decided to focus on the parameter time:
And ok I added the parameter for today, month, week and all the time.
My surprise was to find that everything was the same, it didnt matter I was using the country 2 letter abreviation.
So I wanted to discuss this with you guys..
Shall I wait to the API v3 so I can have my realtime trendings app for all countries?
My plan was to:
- Retrieve Most Popular Videos all the Time and Filter By Country
- Retrieve Most Ranked all the Time and Filtered by Country -- (Same results as Popular Videos).
- Retrieve Most Discussed all the Time and Filtered by Country -- (Same results as Popular Videos).
- Retrieve Top Favorites all the Time and Filtered by Country -- (Same results as Popular Videos).
My surprise is that its all the same, doesnt matter if I used the API call for most popular (/most_popular?v=2), most ranked, most dicussed(/most_discussed?v=2), and top favorites. I just confirmed that its all the same. I cant deny, API provides realtime data but I needed more.
Well, I felt bad and decided to focus on the parameter time:
Code:
The time parameter is supported for search feeds, the most_popular standard video feed, and live event charts. Valid values for this parameter are today (1 day), this_week (7 days), this_month (1 month) and all_time. The default value for this parameter is all_time.
My surprise was to find that everything was the same, it didnt matter I was using the country 2 letter abreviation.
So I wanted to discuss this with you guys..
Shall I wait to the API v3 so I can have my realtime trendings app for all countries?