Hello Will,
I'd assume that this is just a case of the search index having stale
data, which happens from time to time and normally corrects itself
automatically.
I'd recommend coding defensively when accessing YouTube response
elements.
Cheers,
-Jeff Posnick, YouTube API Team
groups.google.com/group/youtube-api-gdata | apiblog.youtube.com |
@YouTubeDev
On Apr 30, 9:17 am, wg <reachw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've got to the bottom of the technical issue although I think it's
> important for us to get to the bottom of why some crucial data was
> undefined - there was a single search result in the array of results that
> for some reason had no yt$statistics object in the returned JSON data.
> Perhaps I've been lucky in testing up to that point not to have encountered
> this situation in previous searches. Its within this object that we can
> read the viewCount property and something that we should be able to present
> to the person performing the search.
>
> The specific video that caused the problem
> washttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lh2MdEfGgI4. I can view it at
> youtube.com and also in our app (once I stop trying to read
> the yt$statistics object). One thing I've noticed at youtube.com is that it
> has a viewCount of 0 in the search results but 30+ views are displayed when
> playing the video. I can of course conditionally use the yt$statistics
> object if it exists? However - is there a reason somebody could give for
> there being no yt$statistics object? Here's the trace from firebug that
> shows where to look for the yt$statistics object. Object 48 has it but
> Object 49 not..
>
> 1. 48: Object
> 1. author: Array[1]
> 2. category: Array[22]
> 3. content: Object
> 4. gd$comments: Object
> 5. gd$rating: Object
> 6. id: Object
> 7. link: Array[5]
> 8. media$group: Object
> 9. published: Object
> 10. title: Object
> 11. updated: Object
> 12. yt$statistics: Object
> 13. __proto__: Object
> 2. 49: Object
> 1. author: Array[1]
> 2. category: Array[16]
> 3. content: Object
> 4. gd$comments: Object
> 5. id: Object
> 6. link: Array[5]
> 7. media$group: Object
> 8. published: Object
> 9. title: Object
> 10. updated: Object
> 11. __proto__: Object
>
> Cheers
>
> Will
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Thursday, April 26, 2012 9:10:16 PM UTC+1, Jeffrey Posnick wrote:
>
> > 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
> > groups.google.com/group/youtube-api-gdata | apiblog.youtube.com |
> > @YouTubeDev
>
> > 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!?
>
> > > On Thursday, April 26, 2012 5:12:14 PM UTC+1, wg wrote:
>
> > > > 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!
>
> > > > On Thursday, April 26, 2012 1:55:38 PM UTC+1, wg wrote:
>
> > > >> 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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