YouTube Channel Video API in PHP

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6 months ago

How to load/list YouTube channel Videos?

Here we will see how we can load YouTube channel video in our website by using JSON.

Now we will start this from scratch

STEP 1 (Get API Key):
We will get ‘API Key’ from Google Developer Console, you can find steps here : https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/getting-started

STEP 2 (Get Channel ID):
Go to your YouTube Channel and copy your channel URL e.g. https://www.youtube.com/channel/XXXThs2cnzpDD-dT
and your channel id is ‘XXXThs2cnzpDD-dT‘.

Now see the complete code below

<?php
    $api_key = 'XXXXXXXXC9eEmCnF4qXXXXX';
    $chanel_id = 'XXXnzpXXXXXXXXXXXc-dT'; // Youtube Channel ID, copy from url of channel 'https://www.youtube.com/channel/XXXnzpXXXXXXXXXXXc-dT'
    $maxResults = '20';
    
    $url    = 'https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search?key='.$api_key.'&channelId='.$chanel_id.'&part=snippet,id&order=date&maxResults=20';
    
    $ch = curl_init(); 
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url); 
       
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
       
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 60); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 60); 
    $result = curl_exec($ch); 
    if(curl_errno($ch) !== 0) { error_log('cURL error when connecting to ' . $url . ': ' . curl_error($ch)); } 
    curl_close($ch); 
    $videoLists = json_decode($result);
    //echo'<pre>';
    //print_r($videoLists);
    
    $videoList = $videoLists->items;
?>

<?php
    foreach($videoList as $videoListVal){
        ?>
        <div style="width:20%; float:left;">
            <?php
                $thumb_url      = $videoListVal->snippet->thumbnails->medium->url; //mediaum,high,default
                $title          = $videoListVal->snippet->title;
                $description    = $videoListVal->snippet->description;
                $videoId        = $videoListVal->id->videoId;
                $publishTime    = $videoListVal->snippet->publishTime;
            ?>
            <iframe width="100%" height="auto" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/<?php echo $videoId; ?>?si=ICtFe87ElbGLgdvm" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe>
        </div>
        <?php
    }
    //echo'<pre>';
    //print_r($videoList);
?>

<?php

$api_key = 'XXXXXXXXC9eEmCnF4qXXXXX';

$chanel_id = 'XXXnzpXXXXXXXXXXXc-dT'; // Youtube Channel ID, copy from url of channel 'https://www.youtube.com/channel/XXXnzpXXXXXXXXXXXc-dT'

$maxResults = '20';

$url = 'https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search?key='.$api_key.'&channelId='.$chanel_id.'&part=snippet,id&order=date&maxResults=20';

$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 60); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 60);

$result = curl_exec($ch);

if(curl_errno($ch) !== 0) { error_log('cURL error when connecting to ' . $url . ': ' . curl_error($ch)); }

curl_close($ch);

$videoLists = json_decode($result);

//echo'<pre>';

//print_r($videoLists);

$videoList = $videoLists->items;

<?php

foreach($videoList as $videoListVal){

<?php

$thumb_url = $videoListVal->snippet->thumbnails->medium->url; //mediaum,high,default

$title = $videoListVal->snippet->title;

$description = $videoListVal->snippet->description;

$videoId = $videoListVal->id->videoId;

$publishTime = $videoListVal->snippet->publishTime;

</div>

<?php

}

//echo'<pre>';

//print_r($videoList);