[YouTube-API] Re: extracting data from google chart

Hello Shaiful,

The type of historical data for arbitrary videos you're looking for
isn't provided via the YouTube API. I am not sure what methodology was
used to collect the data in the research paper you're describing.

Cheers,
-Jeff Posnick, YouTube API Team
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On Jan 15, 1:31 pm, Shaiful Chowdhury <msa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I am trying to analyze the time varying popularity of youtube videos.
> To do so, I need week by week data, number of views for example,
> rather than total number of views. The following statements are taken
> from a research paper titled
> "The tube over time:.............................":
>
> "Recently, YouTube has launched a statistics feature that provides a
> unique opportunity to study video popularity.
> The graph shown in Figure 1 was plotted by YouTube using the Google
> charts API7 . For each popularity metric
> (number of views, number of comments and number of fa-vorites),
> YouTube requests the Google charts API, provid-ing on the requested
> URL one hundred pairs of (x,y) values used to plot the graphs. For
> each collected video, we gath-ered these (x,y) values by collecting
> the URL requested by YouTube."
>
> I am also looking for the same thing. For example, I want to collect
> views at 100 points that were used to draw the google chart. How can I
> do it using Python?
>
> Please help me.
>
> Thanks,
> Shaiful

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