YouTube

Channels, videos, Shorts and comments. View counts, like counts and upload timestamps come back exact, never rounded and never inferred.

5 endpoints. They share the base URL, authentication and response envelope described in the guides.

Worth knowing

Shorts and long-form video are returned from the same channel endpoint and are labelled by content type rather than by duration.

Comments on a YouTube video, paged with a cursor.

One YouTube video or Short, in the standard content shape.

One YouTube video with a richer set of fields.

A YouTube channel and its videos, paged with a cursor.

A YouTube channel with the About panel and richer video fields.