Getting the "videoId" from a YouTube video using YouTubeV3-API-CodePudding

As the title suggests I am trying to get the "videoId" from a YouTube video.

Currently this is my code, it can be replicated.

import requests

channel_id = "UCfjTZZ3iqy24oSg-bmi2waw"
api_key = ""

api_url = f"https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search?part=snippet&channelId={channel_id}&maxResults=1&order=date&type=video&key={api_key}"

request = requests.get(api_url).text


print(request)

When doing this method it returns me this: result from requests.get(api_url).text

If I were to do this

print(request["videoId"])

It would return me this

TypeError: string indices must be integers, not 'str'

Am I just doing it wrong? Even if I try requesting a higher key it returns the same error message.

CodePudding user response：

You need to parse the received JSON and to precise the path of the entry you are looking for, see the code below:

import requests, json

channel_id = "UCfjTZZ3iqy24oSg-bmi2waw"
api_key = ""

api_url = f"https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search?part=snippet&channelId={channel_id}&maxResults=1&order=date&type=video&key={api_key}"

request = json.loads(requests.get(api_url).text)


print(request["items"][0]["id"]["videoId"])