[YouTube-API] Re: strange search result

Hello,

I can't reproduce what you're seeing. I also don't know what you mean
when you're talking about the viewCount property, as that's an
attribute associated with an individual video, not a search results
feed.

Could you provide an example of the specific response values that are
causing problems?

Cheers,
-Jeff Posnick, YouTube API Team
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On Apr 26, 12:34 pm, wg <reachw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Looking deeper, there are results but the web app bombs out because it
> tries to read the viewCount property which is suddenly undefined when the
> search term is as described below. So to summarise what we found so far..
> Search 'david camero rupert' returns a viewCount property but 'david
> cameron rupert' returns viewCount of undefined. Would best practice to be
> to surround all references to properties in conditional 'if !undefined' ?
> surely not!?
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> On Thursday, April 26, 2012 5:12:14 PM UTC+1, wg wrote:
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> > This could be something to be ready for when our clients ask why some
> > search terms don't work. We've been looking at this again - it really is
> > making us very curious. The search term 'david cameron ruper' with no 't'
> > on rupert returns results of yes guess what - the recent news - but when
> > the result has a 't' added on the end no results are returned. Likewise,
> > when the search term is 'david camero rupert' with no 'n' on cameron we get
> > a couple of results but as soon as the name is completed no results. If
> > anybody else can be bothered to try let us know if you have the same
> > strange results in any other 3rd party youtube search situation. Perhaps
> > there are other terms that for some reason will return no results for
> > whatever reason. It would be good to know the reason as we might get
> > questions from our clients!
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> > On Thursday, April 26, 2012 1:55:38 PM UTC+1, wg wrote:
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> >> This is a weird observation I just stumbled across.. if I search for
> >> 'David Cameron' using the youtube search API I get results. If I
> >> search for 'Rupert Murdoch' I also get results. However, if I do a
> >> search for 'David Cameron Rupert Murdoch' it doesn't work. If I do a
> >> search for 'David Cameron Nick Clegg' or David Cameron and anybody
> >> else it does work. Why would a search associating Cameron and Murdoch
> >> not work in the youtube API? It works on youtube.com... weird! Can
> >> anybody think of a non conspiracy related technical reason?

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