How to check if YouTube channel is streaming live

Question

I can\'t find any informations to check if a YouTube channel is actually streaming or not. With Twitch you just need the channel name, and with the API you can check if ther

Answer 1

I know this is old but I figured it out myself with php.

$API_KEY = 'your api3 key';
$ChannelID = 'the users channel id';

$channelInfo = 'https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search?part=snippet&channelId='.$ChannelID.'&type=video&eventType=live&key='.$API_KEY;

$extractInfo = file_get_contents($channelInfo);
$extractInfo = str_replace('},]',"}]",$extractInfo);
$showInfo = json_decode($extractInfo, true);

if($showInfo['pageInfo']['totalResults'] === 0){

echo 'Users channel is Offline';

}else{

echo 'Users channel is LIVE!';

}