How to get top 10 videos from your channel with the views count included in the response

Question

So I have a ouath web app that connects to youtube. I use the youtube analytics calls to get information like number of subscribers from my channel. But right now I try to make a top 10 videos from my channel with the views count for every video included in the response. I use this documentation: Top videos for subscribed or unsubscribed viewers

My call looks like this:

  $command = 'curl -H "Authorization: Bearer ' . $access_token  . '" "https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/analytics/v1/reports?ids=channel%3D%3DMINE&start-date=' . date('Y-m-d', strtotime('-31 days')) . '&end-date=' . date('Y-m-d', strtotime('today')). '&metrics=views&dimensions=video&sort=views"';

But I get an error message as a response:

"The query is not supported. Check the documentation at https://developers.google.com/youtube/analytics/v1/available_reports for a list of supported queries."

I also tried this call with YoTube data API:

        $videos_url = 'https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search?part=snippet&forMine=true&order=viewCount&type=video&access_token=' . $access_token;

But it provides this response:

 ["kind"]=>
    string(26) "youtube#searchListResponse"
    ["etag"]=>
    string(57) ""######""
    ["nextPageToken"]=>
    string(112) "#######"
    ["pageInfo"]=>
    object(stdClass)#267 (2) {
      ["totalResults"]=>
      int(1)
      ["resultsPerPage"]=>
      int(5)
    }
    ["items"]=>
    array(1) {
      [0]=>
      object(stdClass)#270 (4) {
        ["kind"]=>
        string(20) "youtube#searchResult"
        ["etag"]=>
        string(57) ""#####""
        ["id"]=>
        object(stdClass)#269 (2) {
          ["kind"]=>
          string(13) "youtube#video"
          ["videoId"]=>
          string(11) "####"
        }
        ["snippet"]=>
        object(stdClass)#273 (6) {
          ["publishedAt"]=>
          string(24) "2016-09-14T14:49:49.000Z"
          ["channelId"]=>
          string(24) "#####"
          ["title"]=>
          string(12) "My Slideshow"
          ["description"]=>
          string(87) "I created this video with the YouTube Slideshow Creator (http://www.youtube.com/upload)"

This response provides no views count. I need for every video to get the views count as well. Any ideas on how to accomplish this? Any help is welcomed! Thank you all for your time!

Answer 1

The issue with your youtube analytics api request is sort parameter. Try using value -views instead of views. You can double check the API link you provided. Also set the max-results

Example URL :

https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/analytics/v1/reports?ids=channel%3D%3Dmine&start-date=2016-05-01&end-date=2016-09-01&metrics=views&dimensions=video&max-results=10&sort=-views&key={YOUR_API_KEY}