To make an API to fetch latest videos sorted in reverse chronological order of their publishing date-time from YouTube for a given tag/search query in a paginated response.
- choose any search query, for example: official, cricket, football and GET API will returns the stored video data in a paginated response sorted in descending order of published datetime.
- Added support for supplying multiple API keys so that if quota is exhausted on one, it automatically uses the next available key.
- Django
- Django Rest Framework
- YouTube data v3 API
Setup Steps
- Clone the Repository
$ git clone https://github.com/ankitjaadoo/Fetch_Youtube_Videos_API
- Go the the folder
$ cd fetch_youtube_video_API
- Setup Virtual environment
$ python3 -m venv env
- Activate the virtual environment
$ source env/Scripts/activate - for Windows
$ source env/bin/activate - for Mac
- Install dependencies using
$ pip install -r requirements.txt
- Modify settings.py File - Remove the existing keys and add your own YouTube Data API keys in the form [key1, key2, ...]:
$ API_KEYS = ['Google_API_Key_1', 'Google_API_Key_2','Google_API_Key_3',]
- Make migrations using
$ python manage.py makemigrations
- Migrate Database
$ python manage.py migrate
- Create a superuser
$ python manage.py createsuperuser
- Run server using
$ python manage.py runserver
Run the manage.py file:
python manage.py runserverYouTube data v3 API: https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/getting-started
Search API reference: https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/search/list
To fetch the latest videos you need to specify these: type=video, order=date, publishedAfter=<SOME_DATE_TIME>
Without publishedAfter, it will give you cached results which will be too old
API_Youtube
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├── Contains
| ├── Images # Contain screenshots of the project and other images
│ ├── API # The main Django app/api containing the models, views, serializers etc
│ ├── API_Youtube # All the settings and url routes settings of the REST API
| ├── db.sqlite3 # SQLite database housing the data of the videos fetched
│ └── manage.py # Python code used for starting the app by establishing DRF server
| └── requirements.txt # Requirements file
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