[YouTube-API] Re: Playlist Keyword Query

Thanks! I have other things I can do on this project and I'll hope for the best that Google will get around to fixing the problem. It seemed as though the issue had been around for years, and considering I really wanted the full descriptions and not just the concatenated ones of playlists which appear on the search page it was taking FAR too long to scrape the pages. Please let me know if there is some sort of feed or versioning tool I can subscribe to to see changes, otherwise I'll just subscribe to a playlist RSS feed and hope I notice when it gets populated.

On Wednesday, March 7, 2012 1:41:54 PM UTC-5, Jeffrey Posnick wrote:

Hello,

 I think the issue is that there are fewer than 50 results on the
second page of that query (start-index=51) for some reason, but if you
follow the next link, you do get additional results.

 I'm not sure why you'd get fewer than 50 results in this case, but
the playlist search service has been flakey in general recently, and
I'd going to chalk it up to that. I know that the engineering team is
actively investigating the issues, and I'll pass along this report to
see if it helps diagnose things.

Cheers,
-Jeff Posnick, YouTube API Team
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On Mar 3, 4:30 pm, Lythimus <lythi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm having a lot of trouble properly utilizing the keyword query for
> YouTube playlists. I've tried using both the Zend Gdata framework and
> the REST API, with and without providing my API key. I always seem to
> get a much smaller result set than what conventional YouTube web-based
> search provides. I am of course incrementing the start-index and
> calling getNextFeed in Zend. Is it the case that the keyword search
> only returns recent playlists? If so, is there a way around this? Or
> maybe is the keyword query not searching the titles/descriptions of
> the playlists and are in stead searching categories or some other
> metadata?
>
> REST returns less than 90 resultshttp://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/playlists/snippets?q=Let's+Play&ke...
>
> YouTube search returns several hundred thousand resultshttp://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Let's+Play,+playlist&sear...

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