Know if a video Youtube is unavailable with the API

Asked 9/9, 2015 at 12:51 Answered 13/6, 2023 at 21:11

Via the Youtube API, how can I detect if a video Youtube is unavailable (ex : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nRZlcB2jPY) ?

Thanks

Silicate answered 9/9, 2015 at 12:51 Comment(2)

welcome to stack please read stackoverflow.com/help/how-to-ask – Interior 9/9, 2015 at 13:10

If a video is not available it will return 403 error code...you can do a callback if the response is error free – Sharonsharona 9/9, 2015 at 17:41

You would make an API call for the video status.

https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/videos?id=VIDEOID&part=status&key=APIKEY

Then check the uploadStatus in the json result:

"status": {
"uploadStatus": "processed",
"privacyStatus": "public",
"license": "youtube",
"embeddable": true,
"publicStatsViewable": true
}

Blinker answered 10/9, 2015 at 13:20 Comment(5)

Great ! That's it ! Thanks – Silicate 10/9, 2015 at 14:36

Well the video: youtube.com/watch?v=6k4108PYgOk is not available on YouTube but the YouTube API reports the following status for the video:

"status": {     "uploadStatus": "processed",     "privacyStatus": "public",     "license": "youtube",     "embeddable": true,     "publicStatsViewable": true    }

. What should be the correct status for an available video ? – Sedgewake 22/5, 2019 at 11:6

It's unavailable on YouTube for your region. Check region restrictions too: unblockvideos.com/youtube-video-restriction-checker/… – Blinker 22/5, 2019 at 15:37

Vincent, video 8EzdmE4Ewqk is fine, and don't hijack someone's thread. – Blinker 15/2, 2020 at 20:31

@Blinker comments useful for me. Thanks alot. – Scrag 24/9, 2020 at 10:4

This is also partially possible without API. Let's say you want to see if the following video is available:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esDJPiGu5x0

The ID of the video is shown as the GET parameter v. Use this one to request the following thumbnail:

https://img.youtube.com/vi/esDJPiGu5x0/0.jpg

If the content of the response has a length of 0 and/or the http response code by youtube.com is 404, then the video is not available anymore.

Demolish answered 27/6, 2017 at 9:14 Comment(2)

Can't confirm. It just worked for me. Perhaps the preview images were not generated yet? – Demolish 20/2, 2020 at 11:5

If image doesn't exist, then video doesn't exist. But if the image exists, it is no guarantee that the video is available – Sybilsybila 16/3, 2021 at 14:20

You can check it without API.

const https = require('https');

// Change your videoId that you want to check here
const url = 'https://www.youtube.com/oembed?url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=videoID&format=json';

https.get(url, (response) => {
  if (response.statusCode === 200) {
    console.log('Video available');
  } else {
    console.log('Video not available');
  }
}).on('error', (error) => {
  console.error('Error:', error);
});

If you get a response of 200, the video is available. If not, the video is unavailable

Charleton answered 13/6, 2023 at 21:11 Comment(0)

Recommended topics

Hot tags