[YouTube-API] Re: Using C# to retrieve YouTube Insights

Hello,

I don't have any C# code readily available, but I can tell you what
you're doing wrong. You should not be manually creating YouTube
Insight URLs. You can't do it. You seem to be using your YouTube
authentication token as the value of the "token=" URL parameter, and
sticking your username and password in the URL for good measure, but
that's completely the wrong approach. The Insight URL is uniquely
generated by the API and exposed in an authenticated request for a
video entry by that entry's owner, in a <link> element. This is
explained at

https://developers.google.com/youtube/2.0/developers_guide_protocol_insight

Again, you can't manually create the URL. The only time you need to
modify the automatically generated URL at all is if you want to modify
the user_starttime or user_endtime parameters, which is also covered
in the docs.

Cheers,
-Jeff Posnick, YouTube API Team
groups.google.com/group/youtube-api-gdata | apiblog.youtube.com |
@YouTubeDev

On Mar 12, 6:09 pm, ChDev <chiatd...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Does any one have working code for retrieving Insights data for each video
> in a channel?
>
> I'm attempting to retrieve YouTube insights using C#.  I have been able to
> retrieve video IDs
> with the code below, but I cannot retrieve the insights.  I am hoping that
> by using the video ID
> I can do a get on the following URL:
>
> https://insight.youtube.com/video-analytics/csvreports?query=VIDEO_ID...
>
> Though this approach (and URL) doesn't seem to work.
>
> Any ideas? A specific C# code example (that works) would be invaluable.
>
> -------------my code sample ----------------
>
> public class UnixTime
>
> {
>
>     public static string ToUnixTime(DateTime dateTime)
>
>     {
>
>         return (Math.Round((dateTime - new DateTime(1970, 1, 1, 0, 0,
> 0).ToLocalTime()).TotalSeconds, 0)).ToString() ;
>
>     }
>
> }
>
> public void PrepareAndDownloadFile(string username, string password, string
> token, string channel, string destination)
>
> {
>
> YouTubeRequestSettings settings = new YouTubeRequestSettings(channel, token, username, password);
> YouTubeRequest request = new YouTubeRequest(settings);
> string feedUrl = String.Format("http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/{0}/uploads?v=2", channel);
> Feed<Video> videoFeed = request.Get<Video>(new Uri(feedUrl));
>
> foreach (Video video in videoFeed.Entries)
> {
>     StringBuilder url = new StringBuilder();
>
>     url.Append("https://insight.youtube.com/video-analytics/csvreports");
>     url.Append(String.Format("?query={0}", video.Id));
>     url.Append("&type=v");
>     url.Append(String.Format("&starttime={0}", UnixTime.ToUnixTime(DateTime.Now.AddDays(SINCE_OFFSET))));
>     url.Append(String.Format("&endtime={0}", UnixTime.ToUnixTime(DateTime.Now.AddDays(UNTIL_OFFSET))));
>     url.Append("&region=world");
>     url.Append("&hl=en_US");
>     url.Append(String.Format("&userName={0}", username));
>     url.Append(String.Format("&password={0}", password));
>     url.Append(string.Format("&token={0}", token));
>
>     // make Http Request here given the new url.
>
>     dynamic rows = GetPath(url.ToString());
>     processor.WriteRows(destination, rows);
>  }
>
> }
>
> -------------end sample ----------------

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