[YouTube-API] Re: Insight API questions from the Hangout

Hello,

To update this thread, the missing Subscriber columns should be
readded to new reports generated after the the next server push, which
is scheduled for this upcoming Wednesday.

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


On Apr 25, 3:44 pm, Jeffrey Posnick <je...@google.com> wrote:
> I wanted to answer a question from our Google+ Hangout office hours
> (http://goo.gl/JBTI0) here, since the person who asked it wasn't
> around to hear the response.
>
> 1) Last Friday we noticed the insight report was missing Subscribed
> and Unsubscribed columns from our Channel and Video reports. Was it an
> intentional change or error? Is it possible for us to be informed of
> changes to data feeds/reports before they happen?
>
> A: The engineering team believes that this was unintentional, and
> they're going to follow up internally about it.
>
> 2) We noticed the report filenames as well as internal channel names
> are become broken, here the example:
> was: 2012-04-16,HU,animalworld,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0
> now: 2012-04-17,HU,o57ugR-AW2_uKe0fGi7WFw,
> 2,1,12,50,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0
> This is breaking a lot of our internal logic. Is it an error YouTube
> is plan to resolve, or it permanent change?
>
> A: This one was intentional (though we weren't told about it ahead of
> time, unfortunately). This blog post has more info about this unique
> identifiers that correspond to the yt:userId value found in Data API
> responses:
>
>  http://apiblog.youtube.com/2012/03/youtube-google-api-and-you.html
>
> Insight reports are now using those unique yt:userId identifiers
> instead of legacy channel names.
>
> 3) Is there any Youtube API public issue tracking system? .. or
> everything is stored only in Buganizer?
>
> A: We havehttps://code.google.com/p/gdata-issues/issues/list?q=label:API-YouTube
> though it's normally preferable to report pressing issue in this
> Google Group, since it's monitored more often. The Issue Tracker is
> better for keeping track of feature requests that people can vote on.
>
> 4) Are there plans to add comment approval to the API?
>
> A: You can now delete comments, but we don't have any support for
> comment approval in the pipeline at this time. Sorry.
>
> Cheers,
> -Jeff Posnick, YouTube API Team
> groups.google.com/group/youtube-api-gdata | apiblog.youtube.com |
> @YouTubeDev

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