I'm trying to use YouTube API for Live Broadcasts. But, I don't get any results. Here's what I do:
Go to #Live YouTube channel:
www youtube com channel / UC4R8DWoMoI7CAwX8_LjQHig
Open any Live Broadcast to get Broadcast ID (for example, "CGt1Ac1gEZc").
Try to use this Broadcast ID in irb:
irb(main):038:0> list = youtube.list_live_broadcasts("id,snippet,contentDetails,status", id: "CGt1Ac1gEZc") => #<Google::Apis::YoutubeV3::ListLiveBroadcastsResponse:0x0000000546a960 @etag="\"oqbvhYxBE6fAbRk6m7aLlHf5s1I/P7sEkFelJCqPWY-5t7EUKYER_MQ\"", @items=[], @kind="youtube#liveBroadcastListResponse", @page_info=#<Google::Apis::YoutubeV3::PageInfo:0x000000054634d0 @results_per_page=5, @total_results=0>> irb(main):039:0> list.items.inspect => "[]"
As you see, the
@items
array is empty.Open https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/live/docs/liveBroadcasts/list to try to get data there, but still nothing (see image): http://i.imgur.com/6KTr1YS.png
Still, empty @items
array.
Even though this broadcast is 100% online, I tried filtering by "all" broadcasts, the result is the same: no items found.
Is this my fault or something happened to YouTube API?
That query is returning 0 items because the
liveBroadcasts/list
endpoint can only be used for broadcasts that the channel your are authenticated as has created. You cannot use thelist
endpoint to retrieve information about anyone else's broadcast.If you want to retrieve information on another channel's broadcast, you have to use the standard
Search/list
endpoint. This will return return only live events from a particular channel, without being authenticated as that channel/user, if you know that channel'schannelId
:part -> snippet
channelId
->[channelId of the channel/user with the live event]
eventType -> live
type -> video
(required when settingeventType
tolive
)